June 2008 - Industry Watch

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  • Symbian shift and Android's future

    By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada Today’s announcement that Nokia will buy the rest of the shares of mobile operating system maker Symbian that it doesn’t already own and release the code to open source shows how influential Linux...

  • Memo to spectrum bidders: Please stop

    Dear Wireless Spectrum Auction Participants: First of all, my sincere thanks for giving us such an exciting, compelling narrative to follow over the last three weeks. It's had all the thrills, spills, disappointments and triumphs of the Euro 2008 FIFA...

  • Friday's spectrum auction

    By Howard Solomon Assistant Editor, Network World Canada You'd think that with the AWS spectrum auction having been under increasingly tighter rules for the past three days, the 19 remaining spenders would have figured Friday at 5 p.m. would be a great...

  • Who's winning in F1?

    By Howard Solomon Assistant Editor, Network World Canada After two-and-a-half years of Formula One sponsorship, Intel and Dell have finally backed a winning car. Sunday’s victory in Montreal by BMW’s Robert Kubica was the first time an Intel-backed car...

  • Do I look fat in this codec?

    Finally, a year after Cisco unveiled its TelePresence 3000 suite, I had the telepresence experience, conferencing with Cisco spokespeople in San Jose over a set of announcements that'll be made public tomorrow. And while you're never going to have the...

  • Communicating at the speed of F1

    By Howard Solomon Assistant Editor, Network World Canada It’s Formula One week in Montreal again, which means IT companies have been urging industry reporters to come to the track and see how they support some of the world’s leading-edge racing cars....

  • Peter Gabriel, UnFiltered

    Back in the day, I was a rabid Peter Gabriel fan. Through his Genesis days and his first five solo albums, he ruled; his concerts were a transcendent experience. His music tailed off after that, as did my interest, though his Oscar-nominated collaboration...

  • The semantics of privacy

    Bell and the Canadian Association of Internet Providers made submissions to the CRTC in answer to questions the regulator had over their respective cases in the traffic-throttling controversy. (Long story short, if you missed it: Bell is choking off P2P...