Last night was
MobileMonday Toronto's annual Meet the Analysts event at the MaRS Discovery District facility.
If you're local and interested in where mobility is heading in 2012 - and who isn't? - you'll want to join me at the next MobileMonday Toronto event.
Deloitte Canada has been running this event for 11 years, and yesterday's
TMT Predictions 2012 in Toronto is the biggest one yet.
For the past few months, I have wanted to purchase a portable computing device but have been paralyzed by an inability to determine what best to buy. I don't have the budget to buy everything, so I've been trying to decide whether to buy a tablet, e-reader, or netbook. Recently our laptop computer has been gravely ill and so this adds to my purchase dilemma.
The CRTC's vertical integration hearing
opens today with fifty groups
scheduled to appear over the next week and a half. I've written a couple of articles about the issue over the past year. Last September, I
noted the Canadian consolidation felt like a last stab at a walled garden approach that has consistently failed and argued:
By Jon Arnold
March 11, 2011 7:45 PM
Categories:
Wireless
Interesting launch today from Rogers here in Toronto. You don't usually associate wireless business services with cable companies, but Rogers is no ordinary cable company. They've long been one of Canada's major cable operators, but they got in the mobile game very early, and are #1 up here. Cable is a regional business by nature, but wireless gives them a national footprint, and that's where things get interesting for SMBs.
The topic of location-aware mobile applications are certainly a growing area. Whether an application used more for fun and reviews such as Foursquare or to find nearby businesses such as the Yellow Pages app, I believe this type of technology will become increasingly ubiquitous and embedded in an increasing number of applications and online services.
As public frustration with the state of telecommunications services such as Internet access and wireless competition mounts, a relatively obscure government consultation on spectrum deserves far more attention.
