Author Archives: Mark Evans

It will be interesting to see the transcripts of RIM's 15 minutes in court yesterday as it battles NTP over patents apparently crucial to the Blackberry. This battle is already costing RIM millions of dollars in contingency and legal fees. … Continue reading →

After day after Nortel CEO Bill Owens and CFO Bill Kerr finally provided analysts with an audience, we now know the slow talking Owens is bullish about the company's future and committed to installing new financial systems. Unfortunately, there remain … Continue reading →

Over the past two years, BCE CEO Michael Sabia has pursued a strategy focused on core telecom network assets. In pulling a u-turn away from predecessor Jean Monty's ambitious multi-billion dollar convergence agenda, Sabia has returned BCE back to its … Continue reading →

Jeff Pulver's VON roadshow rolled into Canada for the first time last week with a lineup that featured Skype Technologies CEO Niklas Zennstrom. VON's debut was timely because VOIP is just starting to gain momentum in Canada with Primus and … Continue reading →

So Nortel paid its senior executives cash bonuses in January even though its books were being examined by its indepedent audit committee. You have to wonder if the company's senior management had any clear about how far they had wondered … Continue reading →

For anyone who's read this blog, one of my hobby-horses about residential VOIP is the need for it to become more user-friendly. Right now, it's mostly the domain of tech-savvy pioneers who live in single-phone households. That said, it always … Continue reading →