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Canada Stuck in the Slow Lane on Traffic Shaping Debate

Appeared in the Toronto Star on March 3, 2008 as Canada Stuck in Slow Lane on 'Traffic Shaping' Last fall, the Associated Press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Comcast, the largest cable provider in the United States, was actively interfering with network traffic by engaging in traffic shaping.  […]

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March 3, 2008 4 comments Columns Archive

Canadians Play a Lead Role in Books 2.0

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 25, 2008 as Canadians Are Playing Key Role in 'Books 2.0' Last year, the Department of Canadian Heritage commissioned Turner-Riggs, a Vancouver-based market-analysis company, to study the Canadian book retail market.  The resulting report – The Book Retail Sector in Canada – has […]

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February 25, 2008 1 comment Columns Archive

Corporate Giants Call for Copyright Compromise

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 18, 2008 as Broad Consensus is Building on Copyright Front Under most circumstances, Telus and Rogers Communications fiercely compete in the marketplace.  The same can be said for Google and Yahoo!, the world’s two leading rival Internet search companies.  Yet last week these […]

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February 18, 2008 2 comments Columns Archive

The Race Toward Clean Cloud Computing

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 11, 2008 as Our Heads Should Be In The Clouds Imagine a world where most of the functions of our personal computers – running applications, communicating, and storing data – would not take place on those computers but rather at massive computer server […]

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February 11, 2008 2 comments Columns Archive

The Race Toward Clean Cloud Computing

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 11, 2008 as Our Heads Should Be In The Clouds Imagine a world where most of the functions of our personal computers – running applications, communicating, and storing data – would not take place on those computers but rather at massive computer server […]

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February 11, 2008 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive