Canada

Thinking About RIM, its people and its future

First of all let me tell you something that has been heavily on my mind over the last week or so – RIM is NOT Nortel.  I will write more about that later on, but I believe that Research In Motion and its BlackBerry line of products and services has a long life left in [...]

July 29, 2011 Read the full article →

Zoompass Announcement Falls Short of ‘my’ expectations

I am not sure I get it at times.  I know that the technology is limited and that a lot of the talk that sometimes goes around is more dreaming than real possibilities. Today’s Zoompass announcement however strikes me more as a step backwards than a forward one.  This is what happens when the initiative [...]

March 3, 2010 Read the full article →

Carnival of the Mobilists #202: Of Mobile Platforms, Stores, Acquisitions and Banking

After almost a year of following Carnivals and submitting our own entries as well it is a privilege for the Mobile Strategy Blog to host the 202nd edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists!  For this week we have thought-provoking pieces, inside scoops, tough questions and overall interesting posts on a variety of topics.  All [...]

November 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Financial Services In Canada

My intent was always to provide a recap of last week’s inaugural Mobile Money Canada conference. I was going to review the event itself, the speakers and even the audience.  However much has gotten in the way of doing that for you – even though I feel a certain sense of obligation to provide you [...]

November 16, 2009 Read the full article →

CRTC Says No To Globalive And Canadians

The Press Release begins like this: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today determined that Globalive Wireless Management (Globalive) does not meet the Canadian ownership requirements set out in the Telecommunications Act. Under the legislation, a telecommunications company is only eligible to operate in Canada if it is not at any time owned and controlled, [...]

October 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Money Canada Conference – November 10, 2009

This is exciting for me.  I will be attending and hopefully writing, interviewing and even offering some mobile strategy advice and services to those seeking it.   The event organizers have stated the following three goals for the conference: Stimulate the growth of a nascent, but promising, Mobile Money industry in Canada Educate business and technology [...]

October 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

It is a long weekend up here in Canada and we are celebrating our Thanksgiving! We will be back tomorrow with some fresh content for all of you.  Personally I am very thankful for all the blessings in my life and today is definitely a good day to pause and consider from whom all these [...]

October 12, 2009 Read the full article →

The State of Wireless in Canada (2009)

One of my daily (or weekly) reads is Wireless North (Covering The Great Wireless North). The author (Thomas) recently presented at the FITC Mobile 2009 last week on the State of Wireless in Canada. Below is the deck if you are into that sort of thing… Canadian, wireless, mobile, etc. (Sept 2009) The state of [...]

September 21, 2009 Read the full article →