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Why there’s no Kindle for Canada

October 8, 2009

Canadians want their Kindle.  The device, which Forrester predicts Amazon will sell 1.8 Million copies of during 2009, is becoming a force in the publishing industry — and may well be Amazon’s iPod.  As an example of its early impact, fully 5% of the early sales for Dan Brown’s latest book were Kindle-downloaded.  Of course, [...]

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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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Whither Telus » Bell .. so Shaw » Rogers?

June 21, 2007

Telus and Bell have confirmed they’re in merger talks, after BCE earlier announced it was mulling over its options earlier this Spring. Both companies are weakened by declining landline revenues as competition from Wireless and the Cable Guys and, to a lesser extent pure-play VoIP contenders, is heating up. This makes a lot of sense, [...]

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