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Separating the competitive access issues from the Net Neutrality issues.

Bell throttling wholesale providers of DSL services has further opened up the conversations around Net Neutrality. Michael Geist has written about the mounting call for action on net neutrality from organizations such as the National Union of Public and...

Published Sat, Mar 29 2008 1:03 PM by Rusell McOrmond
Canada's next great prime-time television experience - throttled by Bell

Yesterday morning I read another note about legacy phone and cable companies throttling competing P2P traffic that mentioned the fact that CBC made the show Canada's Next Great Prime Minister as a DRM-free file via BitTorrent. I decided to download the...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2008 9:03 AM by Rusell McOrmond
The engineering of a political problem

Most people are not technical people. In fact, many people have a form of mental block where an issue that they would normally engage in becomes "too complex" simply by adding a computer or something technical to the discussion. Politicians and government...

Published Tue, Mar 25 2008 10:03 AM by Rusell McOrmond
Why it is important to participate in the study by parliament's Industry Committee

Last week the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) , a committee of the Canadian house of Commons, adopted a motion to conduct a study into Canadian science and technology . While April 18 is the last day for submissions, I made...

Published Mon, Mar 24 2008 2:03 PM by Rusell McOrmond
Software as a Service: My Own Story

I have a great example of using Software as a Service (SAAS) from my own day-to-day experience. One of the complexities that I have faced in doing consulting work has been the coordination between my desktop PC (which is used for most of my industrial...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2008 3:03 PM by Paul E. Rummell
An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is stopping us!

Whenever the discussion of “Net Neutrality” comes up we often get stuck with how the current network is configured, who provides it, and other historical issues. I would like to toss out that history for a moment and offer what I believe to...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2008 12:03 PM by Rusell McOrmond
GNU General Public License considered very strong, still not challenged in court

You sometimes hear people trying to dismiss the GNU General Public License , the most popular of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses, as being unenforceable. While there is a long list of companies that have been alleged to infringe...

Published Tue, Mar 18 2008 3:03 PM by Rusell McOrmond
Trying to understand parliamentarians' misunderstanding of core new technology issues

When asked about what the core concepts are for understanding what made “new media” possible, I talk about two things: the movement away from communications technology where the network was smart and the terminals were dumb (radio,...

Published Mon, Mar 17 2008 11:03 AM by Rusell McOrmond
Feeling the Heat

Predictions are that the IT security situation in Canada will worsen ‘Canadian companies are over-confident and lax when it comes to their IT security. Business leaders aren't taking it seriously and IT leaders aren't providing best practices...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 9:03 PM by Paul E. Rummell
Copyright as part of a debate on eastern vs western censorship?

Last week I was interviewed by a reporter from ZeroPaid , a website started in 2000 dedicated to digital music that very quickly got on the P2P music sharing bandwagon. When interviewed I offer my honest opinions of things, even when I'm sure the audience...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 10:03 AM by Rusell McOrmond
What Makes a Corporate Social Network?

First, the title of this piece isn't supposed to sound like a contradiction. There's lots of good data out there from very credible sources that tells senior execs in big organizations that if they want to be able to hire the kind of young people that...

Published Sun, Mar 02 2008 4:03 PM by Dr. Chevalier

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March 2008 - Enterprise Insights

Separating the competitive access issues from the Net Neutrality issues.

Canada's next great prime-time television experience - throttled by Bell

The engineering of a political problem

Why it is important to participate in the study by parliament's Industry Committee

Software as a Service: My Own Story

An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is stopping us!

GNU General Public License considered very strong, still not challenged in court

Trying to understand parliamentarians' misunderstanding of core new technology issues

Feeling the Heat

Copyright as part of a debate on eastern vs western censorship?

What Makes a Corporate Social Network?

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