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Innovation and the business of technology

Here's a refreshingly honest post from FreshBook's Mike McDerment about all the mistakes he's almost made with his Software-as-a-Service business. Read between the lines and you'll glimpse the pressures faced by innovative entrepreneurs.
File this under Weird: Nortel has produced a cartoon ad. You can see it here, on YouTube, posted by "nortelvids" and aptly described as: "This fully animated piece follows a lonely robot as he finds an energy efficient Nortel oasis in a dark and dreary future world."
Another Monday, another New York Times story that's got me thinking. This week, it's an article examining U.S. Congress's growing interest in how Internet companies collect and use the bread crumbs of personal information we leave in our travels through the Web. It is a major issue, and while it's ...
My latest column looks at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's recent disclosure of just how far American border officials can go when they ask to see your personal gadgets—laptop, BlackBerry, even your iPod. Travelling to the States? Have a read, and think twice about what digital belongings you pack.
I hope some Canadian wireless executives—whether they be inside the big three incumbants, or the new owners of wireless spectrum—read this New York Times story, which looks at how U.S. wireless carriers are starting to open up their mobile networks. In Canada, the wireless industry continues to nickel and dime, ...

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[originally posted to Canadian Business Online on July 9, 2008 here]
Well, that was quick—for the RCMP's financial fraud cops, that is. The Mounties' Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET), laid criminal fraud charges today against former Nortel (NT) CEO Frank Dunn and his two key financial executives, Douglas Beatty (a former CFO) and Michael Gollogly (a former controller), 466 days after ...
The issue of Canadian Business that hit newsstands Thursday features our annual Tech 100 ranking. We took a different approach this year: it's still the list of Canada's biggest publicly traded technology companies, but we decided that running company financial metrics in a big table spread over two pages was ...
The perennially beleaguered Nortel (TSX:NT) held a conference in Toronto today for analysts and major investors (webcast, with presentation slides). It's all spin to some degree, but Nortel executives have earned a reputation for being pretty forthright about its business—partly trying to still make up for previous leadership teams' gross ...