Tag Archive | "Wireless"

Haitian aftershocks ripple through social web

January 16, 2010 No comments yet

From the vapid and vacuous to the profound and tragic, the social web proved its mettle this week in the face of the disastrous Haitian earthquake.
The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake decimated the impoverished Caribbean island, snuffing out tens of thousands of lives while toppling infrastructure. Miraculously, what seemed to stay up were pockets of mobile [...]

Creating buzz on a shoestring budget

December 5, 2009 2 comments

Witec Alberta invited me to speak at one of their regular networking breakfasts this past week, alongside Lee McArthur, Product Manager at Kryos. Lee briefed the room on BlackBerry application platforms, choices and rollout. One of those choices for rapid application development and deployment is Kryos Velocity.
I concentrated my remarks on how resource-starved tech startups [...]

Money makes the wireless go ’round

March 6, 2009 No comments yet

This morning I had the great pleasure of hearing three excellent speakers present at a breakfast session put on by WiTec Alberta, the provincial association focused on supporting the Wireless & Telecom industry.
Stephen King, CEO of mob4hire.com; Roger Morrison, President of dTechs Electrical Profile Management; and Henry Kutarna, Southern AB Manager at Alberta Deal Generator [...]