The big, iconic brands I recall from my youth (before it had been misspent): Coke, Tide, Esso, GM, Ford and Chrysler. Coke’s easy to understand, Mom always used Tide, while Dad always filled his Buick with Esso gas. Most of you are too young to know how big a deal the “Big 3” automakers were. ...
Cellular costs are for many companies their fastest growing, and most uncontrollable, expense. Everybody wants a Smartphone and sometimes they want two, a Blackberry for the office and an iPhone or Android for personal use. They quickly become your primary communication tool at home and the office and your voice calls, text and data charges ...
Working in the high speed internet world means friends and acquaintances always assume I’m all over the latest trends, gizmos, apps and services. And to some extent I am — in fact I have to be, but… A New (OLD) Rule to Live By Only some of you will remember the TV series Banacek back ...
I try to maintain a certain level of anonymity when I’m browsing the web, and when I talk with friends or clients about privacy and internet security I encourage them to do the same. If I’m browsing to your web site and I’m intending to purchase a product from your business, you’ll need information like ...
Choosing a domain name extension was straightforward when I founded Skyway West in 1996 and has remained so until now. The introduction of the .xxx extension, to denote adult content, in December 2011 is proving a more complicated decision. Why are 900,000 companies considering a .xxx extension, and should we join them? We chose three ...
I’ve always been that guy in the office with the latest gadget, which makes me either annoying or interesting, depending on your point of view. So here’s one user’s perspective on the iPAD2: CONTENT CONSUMPTION Music, online radio, newspapers, reading email, video, text messages… it’s an amazing tool. I regularly download digital versions of the ...
A famous advertising slogan of past years was AT&T’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone”, first heard in 1979! For our younger viewers (jk), I’ll explain: It promoted Long Distance calling, which was indeed expensive… a direct dialed Vancouver to New York call was around $4 bucks a minute in those days, and most calls had ...
Yes, it truly is…if you use its full potential. What are some of the possibilities beyond just email and web surfing? Lower telephone Trunk costs with Voice over IP. Lower travel costs with video conferencing (75% less bandwidth is required now for HIGH resolution pictures). Lower international LD costs with SKYPE. Cloud based computing… less ...
Yes! It’s true. Pixels are exploding. Remember when Steve Job said, “1,000 songs in your pocket” … a big deal at the time for Apple’s itty bitty iPOD. Remember SD? TV – Standard Definition… Heck, nobody could care less what it was, until HD High Definition came out. The numbers of bits we use to ...
The Great One once said one of the most important things in the game was never skate to the puck; skate to where the puck is going… A lesson well understood by our Canadian CLEC’s and ILEC’s, which want you to believe bandwidth caps ranging from 25 Gigabytes in Ontario to 60 GB in Quebec, ...
