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Archive for September, 2009

Hope springs eternal… with results!

Posted: Monday, September 28th, 2009 @ 10:04 am in Society, Tech | No Comments »

Great timing. No details if the iPhones are unlocked, but carrier exclusivity is mercifully coming to a close in the UK. Of course, we need another national 3G carrier in Canada to bring the benefit home, plus another couple of years for the Roger’s 3-year jail term to all of us to expire, but there [...]

I actually think the Telco is right on this one

Posted: Sunday, September 27th, 2009 @ 10:14 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

Yes, that’s a pretty rare statement as I still hold the incumbents have all but abdicated the responsibility that comes with being a utility and the steward of a public piece of infrastructure. Instead, they have become wholly beholden only to their shareholders. That’s fine as long as you don’t own the wires that come [...]

Yes, let’s beat on the customer some more – Music Industry

Posted: Friday, September 18th, 2009 @ 2:30 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

Music Publishers and Writers Lobbying Congress for Additional Compensation for Digital Distribution (Via MacRumors.) So now you get a segment of the industry claiming that my private listening of a 30 second sample of a song is a public broadcast, and I should pay (through iTunes store, but ultimately, costs go to the customer) for [...]

Even better – The NHL names a price

Posted: Sunday, September 6th, 2009 @ 7:04 pm in Commentary | No Comments »

Well, that is just making my Sunday. Bettman and his cronies had to put forward the goods at last. I almost think Balsillie and his crew took the Phoenix valuation from the apparent value the NHL was putting on it, and thus lowballed the relocation as a result, and maybe on purpose. This has, in [...]