Skyway Recommended June 25th to July 1st

Each Monday (well, it’s Tuesday today but we were enjoying Canada day yesterday — hope you were too) we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think about things we do (internet trends, internet privacy, internet censorship, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…

All Things D, Nathaniel Borenstein | Tomorrow’s Internet: More Than More of the Same

“There is a giant opportunity for enterprises small and large to push our Internet boundaries so we can still get the open Internet we deserve. The key to making progress lies in helping private and public organizations, and especially our students, better understand what is possible. When our younger generations understand the limitations of today’s Internet and cloud applications, they will begin to imagine something better and push our current technology to create more.” Read More…

IT World Canada | Cisco Aims to be #1 in the Internet of Everything

According to Cisco CEO John Chambers, the dream started in the early 90s when he was just a lowly vice-president at the San Jose, California-based networking company. Read More…

The Atlantic Wire | What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You

To offer a basic sense of how StellarWind collection worked — and how much user names and IP addresses can tell a spy about a person, even if he’s not reading the contents of your email — we took a look at the raw source code of an everyday email header. It’s not the exact kind of information the NSA was pulling, of course, but it shows the type of information attached to every single one of your emails. Read More…

The Globe and Mail | Canadian Telecom shares slump after Verizon’s $700-million bid for Wind

Shares of Canada’s major phone companies slumped last week as analysts warned a potential entry into Canada by Verizon Communications Inc. could “disrupt the Canadian wireless market.” Verizon is pushing forward with its efforts to expand into Canada’s $19-billion wireless market, putting an initial offer on the table for Wind Mobile and starting talks with Mobilicity. Read More…