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Could SIP Save Skype?

November 2, 2009

The answer, in my article over at GigaOM.com, is resoundingly NO. But there’s more to it than that. My argument in this piece was largely an economic one, not as much a dissertation on the independent merits of the protocols in play.  I do think that the issues around SIP remain relevant as they result [...]

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Most Popular NHL Teams on eBay

October 16, 2008

With the season firing up last week I encouraged my friends at Terapeak to take a look at the transaction data around the various franchises on eBay.  Here’s what they came up with … not entirely unexpected.

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Rogers Communications iPhone Backlash Solution: Unlock the 3G, Too

July 3, 2008

In a week, when Apple FanBoys are lined up outside the Rogers and Fido stores to purchase their iPhones and get locked into Rogers’ draconian service plan for the next three years, yours truly wil be cooling his heels waiting for a shipment from the UK to arrive at his door. In this package, likely [...]

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Google is a Kludge – Or Why Search is Going to Change

June 20, 2008

Despite the fact that I often find myself on the opposing end of the table on most of what Microsoft does, I was really hoping to be able to agree with Ballmer on his assertions regarding Microsoft’s rejuvenated focus on search as quoted in today’s Financial Times article. I was hoping that, on the heels [...]

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Rachel Marsden: On the warpath again!

March 4, 2008

If I had a category on my blog called “cautionary tales for bachelors”, this would be the headliner story. It informs the wisdom of an increasingly common practise, whereby when you meet some reasonably attractive yet complex member of the opposite sex, you’re tempted to Google her name and/or look her up in Wikipedia. According [...]

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Albanians swipe Bush’s wristwatch

June 13, 2007

Okay, maybe you didn’t hear it here first, but El Reg reported yesterday that someone among a crowd of “well-wishers” in Albania stole George Bush’s wristwatch as he glad-handed the throngs. Apparently embarrassed Secret Service agents can now bid for the watch on eBay. I’m just happy to be able to gloat. Watch the video [...]

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Waiting For Spielberg..

September 20, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/ MFMERHANT.html September 21, 2003 Waiting For Spielberg By MATTHEW ROSE Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi [...]

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Patriotic Profiteers..

April 17, 2003

I’m now getting spam from morons selling US DoD Death Cards on EBay… joy! -Ian. —– http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2955231.stm US firm cashes in on ‘Comical Ali’ In the latest attempt to cash in on the war, a US toy company has produced dolls based on Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq’s now-famous former information minister. Mr al-Sahhaf gained notoriety [...]

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Nine Coolest Albums of 2002…

January 3, 2003

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/ the_nine_coolest_albums_of_2002.shtml The Nine Coolest Albums of 2002 Brad Barrish, 18 December 2002 If there’s one thing I know about music it’s that you can never be too ahead of everyone else. There’s nothing more satisfying than being able to say you knew about something before your friends and all the magazines did. It may [...]

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Enron (Actually Worth Reading)..

November 4, 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,825401,00.html Bad company Its testosterone-fuelled traders were fixtures in Houston’s strip clubs. One division of the company spent $2m a year on flowers alone. And its executives used the firm’s corporate jets as taxis. In the first extract from his remarkable new book on the rise and fall of Enron, Robert Bryce describes the heady [...]

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