Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 13, 2007 as Getting Social Networking Sites to Socialize Appeared in the Tyee on August 14, 2007 as Cracking Open Social Networks Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become part of the daily routine for millions of Internet users who […]
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Dell Case Sets Standard For Online Contracts
Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 30, 2007 as Dell Case Sets Standard for Online Contracts Late on a Friday afternoon in April 2003, Dell Computer's Canadian website featured a pair of erroneous prices for the Axim, the company's handheld computer. Rather than listing the two versions of the […]
Uncompetitive Canadian Pricing Threatens Mobile Internet
Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 23, 2007 as Time to Revamp Mobile Internet Pricing The promise of an always-on mobile Internet – delivered through cellphones and wireless devices – has long been touted as the next stage in the evolution of electronic communication and commerce. That next stage […]
CRTC Confronts “Defining Challenge of our Time”
Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 16, 2007 as Media Diversity Hearings Are Long Overdue In a little noticed speech last month at a Canadian broadcasting conference, Konrad von Finckenstein, the newly appointed Chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), told the industry that new media is […]