Posts by Michael Willems

Thanks

BBC "carefully chose computers outside the US and UK". Like my country? Thanks, BBC. Many thanks. I think you SHOULD be prosecuted.

They do it already.

They do that already: Canada and US customs routinely check travellers' laptops' parts where the sun don't shine. So the article is wrong to be so trusting.

Competition in Canada? Joke.

I have the misfortune -from a telecoms point of view - to live in Canada. Medieaval, I almost say. No competition. My Blackberry bill is around $500 a month and I am not a heavy users: a week long trip to the UK is good for another $500-$1,000. There is no unlimited GSM bandwidth here - monthly allowed bandwidth for $100 is measured in MB, not GB!

And then when I travel it is even worse: $0,01 per kB, with a minimum of 10 kB.

Ripoff, and the "new entrants" all have to be Canadian. And those frequencies are not used anywhere else, so forget any international equipment being useable.

So in effect there is zero competition.

If US carriers were allowed into Canada, traffic costs would go down 90% or more in a year. But oh no, our Tory government has to protect its Telco friends. At the expense of the Canadian people and worse, Canadian competitiveness. Sad.

SaaS can be bette rthan this!

AND frequent "planned downtime". If you want to run your business next Saturday noon to 5pm EST, for instance, well, forget it.

This is not good coming from the world's SaaS standard bearer. They could do much better if they tried. With market dominance comes complacency?

Translation

Well, eh.. this means "we are not doing all that well actually. Our IM is OK, but proprietary. We are owned by a large company with questionable motives. Our phone costs look cheap but in fact are quite high due to minimum costs, so a short call is cheaper using your Telco. And your Telco does not come in echoes, halts and starts. So we can no longer afford to pay thirty people with little to show for it. Sorry. Maybe we'll work it out yet. Meanwhile, some of our thirty people are looking for a job. Don't suppose you'd have any going?"

Huh? UN?

I actually read this in the link.. "...the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe braking Regulation (Regulation 13)".

The UN passes BRAKING REGULATIONS for EUROPE?

Awful report

Geez. I read the report, and yes, screwups all around by non-IT people. But what an awful report. Look at the chapter headings, for example. What did the govt. pay for this report?

Mistaks, shurely

"...hundreds of other companies who purchased the rights to sue MP3 technology from Fraunhofer."

Shurely shome Freudian mistake.. you may mean "use", not "sue"?