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  • My 2011 Predictions

    Well 2010 was certainly an eye opening ride for me, moving between institutions not of my own will and looking to a future that may or may not include academia. But for all that, it has provided me with yet another way of looking at technology and the way that it is used to educate…

  • White Space… the Wifi Frontier

    This could be an interesting development (passed along through a colleague in the office), should it ever come to pass. The use of the unused digital spectrum to transmit data to personal devices could be a great way for the US to move forward on Obama’s idea of getting the entire country online ASAP. This…

  • 2008 Predictions

    This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…

  • Google, Canadian wireless auction

    It seems that in the US, Google is getting ready to get into the wireless biz, If it happens, it’s going to blur the lines between technology and communication companies, something that in the States was prevented in the ’50s by a consent degree and likely was enacted in a similar manner in Canada. But…

  • iPhone stumbling block

    Well it seems that iPhone is problematic in Canada for two reasons. First, another company has the copyright on the name and second, there is no deal with Rogers yet. Apple doesn’t even have the domain. It seems that everyone who bet on “iname” is laughing now, but it begs the question of reviewing the…