Imagine you’re in your garden and suddenly have the eery feeling that someone is watching you. You look over to see this little creature with a single eye just glaring at you! Then you realize “oh yea, that’s just my Easy Bloom Plant Sensorâ€�. Whew! Despite the slightly odd flower-esque i...

RIM stirred the pot yesterday when they unveiled the BlackBerry App World (the new renamed Blackberry application store), and details of their pricing plans leaked out.  The two most important details: RIM has set the pricing tiers for App World, and in the process eliminated $.99 and $1.99 as pric...

That TicketMaster has a monopoly on the sale of event tickets in North America is not in dispute.  Now that they have achieved that monopoly, however, how should they behave?  Case in point, my own attempts to buy tickets for Leonard Cohen’s Ottawa show on May 25 / 26.  After advertising all la...

Is the European Commission living in the past?  For a few weeks now, news outlets have been reporting that the Bureaucrats of Brussels are planning to essentially re-open the browser anti-trust case against Microsoft, demanding that Microsoft allow the browser to be wholesale replaced in the operat...

We’ve been working hard on different ways to promote Calliflower as an online meeting tool for the last few weeks.  One of the latest techniques we’re using is online videos. It turns out to be surprisingly easy.  Create a script, grab some stock photos (check out www.istockphoto.com),...

I find that one of the most useful features of Twitter is the resource sharing. With a well-established network of educators, it seems easy to solicit responses from educators who are willing to share favourite resources on various topics. Today, one of my undergraduate students Krystal (@tealek) in...

The folks at Crain's New York Business steered fearlessly into a sea of gloom this morning at the paper's humbly named "Future of New York" conference. Dick Ravitch, the once- and would-be-future MTA savior, was answering questions at a panel discussion on how real estate and infrastructure could gr...

We hosted Lee Dryburgh, the organizer of eComm, on the January 26th SquawkBox conference call.  A wide ranging and well attended conference call, we discussed the origins of the eComm Conference, what to expect from this year’s conference, and highlights of previous years. Along the way, we also ...

Yesterday I wrote about Silicon Valley investment levels compared to Canadian, as well as the perception outside Canada that our tech sector is no longer innovative.  One could easily be left with the perception from those pieces that the Canadian technology sector is in deep trouble, and doing a l...

Today’s Ottawa Citizen carries a column by Randall Denley titled Nortel’s failure a depressing blow.  Denley asks if the people of Canada are good at anything but playing hockey, noting that: Many of Canada’s best-known companies have failed to become world-class players and have fallen p...