By Alison@Creekside Ten years ago the Cons bought CIMS, their Constituent Information Management System, and began stuffing it with our phone numbers and adding smiley/frowny faces beside our names and whatever other info they could glean about us. The other parties had their own lesser versions. Most of us first took notice of CIMS when we […]
RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s — PR win
By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has been an impressive performance […]
BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback device
By Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as more details about the BB10 are unveiled, I got the opportunity […]
RIM: An ex-insider on what will happen next
By Ruth Haworth The Globe & Mail revealed earlier this week that Research in Motion is planning large layoffs in the next couple of weeks, probably more than 2,000 of its 16,500 worldwide workforce. I got out just in time: I resigned from RIM so recently that my last day was this week and I […]
RCMP: Really Carefully Monitoring People
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) How can I write this without sounding, well, paranoid? I believe the RCMP is watching too many people, and abusing its resources. There are plenty of signs this is taking place. And proliferating tech gadgets and social media are only making the matter worse. It worries me. The police should […]
RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. It’s not just another Nortel. Nevertheless, RIM needs to make some major moves to jump-start and revitalize its prospects. […]
iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
by Eric Pettifor So, it turns out that phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010 log date and location wherever their owners take them. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is actively spying on its customers. But do […]
End Times for the iPhone
By Eric Pettifor 2010 could prove to be the year of the iPhone killer, but, if so, Apple’s bereavement will simply be collateral damage in the ever-raging battle between giants Microsoft and Google. Google’s Android on a Google phone won’t deliver the death blow, but it will be a sign of the end times. Android […]
