If anyone needed further proof that blogging has hit the mainstream, one need look no further than the National Basketball Association
The league has always been known as one of the more forward-thinking pro sports leagues in North America if not the world.
Last week, the league forced the Dallas Mavericks to allow bloggers of […]

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My friend and former colleague Garry Marr has produced another Marred by Taxes video blog. The latest episode features Garry ranting, in his usual entertaining and accurate fashion, about hotel taxes. The video editing of these sessions is bizarre as per usual.

FP Reporter Garry Marr’s “Marred By Taxes” Vlog

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The NCAA’s annual men’s basketball championship tourney is in its third day; the field of entrants will be down to 16 by the end of the weekend.
This year, college hoopheads that double as Facebook users (like myself) have been able to track the progress of the tourney’s 65 teams with cbssportsline.com’s bracket management tool […]

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
It’s a familiar phrase, a cliche even, that Dell Inc. should heed as it prepares to re-enter the handheld/smartphone market perhaps next year.
The company best known for its bland desktop computers, has been searching high and low for higher-growth opportunities, as revenue per […]

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Telus has launched the Koodo Mobile youth-oriented cellphone service, almost a year after its last attempt to capitalize on the lucrative demographic ended in disaster.
Telus, you’ll recall, launched the Amp’d Mobile brand in Canada around this time last year with much fanfare. Some three months later, Amp’d’s parent company in the United States flamed […]

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Salt Lake City, Utah - The topic came up during a long conversation with Ross Chevalier, Novell Canada’s chief technology officer and the longtime face of the company in Canada, here at Novell’s annual user conference called BrainShare.
Linux matters in many ways - it is used to handle several types of workloads; it […]

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My telecom Spidey senses say no.
That’s assuming, of course, the Western Canadian cable network operator buys air waves in the forthcoming auction, which begins on May 27, then resorts to inaction afterwards.
If the federal government, Industry Canada specifically, wants to promote competition as it has said and Shaw gobbles up valuable air waves, shouldn’t […]

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Kudos to Virgin Mobile Canada for its latest series of ads mocking disgraced New York State governor Eliot Spitzer; they are clever and appropriately tasteless. The ads, which are set to appear in national commuter newspapers this week, depict the governor with a thought bubble over his head that reads “I’m tired of being […]

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Industry Canada released the list of companies that will bid for available airwaves earlier today and the early leader surprisingly is a little-known outfit called Niagara Networks.
Niagara, run by someone named Douglas S. Evashkow could very well become a national wireless carrier; the company put an $881-million deposit down with Industry Canada before the list […]

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Warm up the production lines, Sony and Panasonic. Now that Fidel Castro has officially stepped down, the state has graciously decided to let the Cuban people buy DVD players and gasp, personal computers!
How progressive. All kidding aside, it’s nice to see some of its long-suffering people, if not all of them, enjoy a few luxuries.
The […]

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