Category Archives: Software
Sam Bulte's Bad Optics
It took awhile but I waded into the Sam Bulte copyright controversy with this week's column in the Financial Post (it's tucked behind our walled garden so you'll have to buy the paper to read it). I look at the … Continue reading
Sign of the Times?
The Corel Centre – the home of the Ottawa Senators – is no more. The arena is still standing but the software maker's name will be coming down after the naming rights were purchased by Bank of Nova Scotia. “I … Continue reading
Monday Reviews: Nokia N90, Google Pack, Roboform
Amid the focus on wireless at CES, it provides me with a chance to talk about Nokia N90 smartphone that I've been testing for the past month. Let's start with its strengths: it takes very nice photos with a two … Continue reading
Microsoft's Web 2.0 Manifesto
There is going to be a lot of amount of chatter today within the blogosphere – and, hopefully, the mainstream media – about the “Live” e-mails sent by Bill Gates and Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie (provided to us by Dave Winer. … Continue reading
Greg Maffei Bails from Oracle
While most folks in the U.S. know Greg Maffei as Microsoft's ex-CFO, here in Canada, he's the former CEO of 360Networks, who came on board just before the telecom boom ended, and ended up steering the company through bankruptcy protection. … Continue reading
It's Live, It's Microsoft
My initial impressions of the “big” Microsoft announcement today of Windows Live and Office Live – otherwise known as Microsoft Web 2.0 – is “Sure, it makes complete sense but what took you so long?” I mean, integrating Windows and … Continue reading
