Alec Saunders SquawkBox » CanadaA daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there.Why I will be voting against Stephen Harpers Conservatives when an election is called.- August 31, 2008 I had two calls from the Conservative Party yesterday &8212; one from a fund raiser, and another from a pollster polling on behalf of my local MP Pierre Poilievre. The fund raiser wanted money, and the pollster wanted to know how I was going to vote if an election were called. I told them both ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/31/why-i-will-be-voting-against-stephen-harpers-conservativ... Reinventing Business Conversations, with Rick Segal- August 16, 2008 In Blowing up an industry, Rick Segal suggests that conference calling services could be easier to use. His vision is that you would be able to easily find people, invite them to conference calls and participate, without having all of the usual mess that surrounds conference calls dial-in numbers, pin codes, and the like. I ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/16/reinventing-business-conversations-with-rick-segal/ Squawk Box August 14 - Guest Peter Diedrich- August 14, 2008 Today's guest was Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich. Peter was part of the VC funding group that funded Mobivox two and a half years ago, spent 18 months as the CEO of ThunderBay Telecom in Canada, and then took on the CEO role at Mobivox in June of this year. We discussed what Mobivox is, and the Mobivox experience plus the things that Peter saw in Mobivox when he took on the CEO role that really make it special. He also gave us an update on some of the price change controversies that erupted a.http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/14/squawk-box-august-14-guest-peter-diedrich/ Crowdsourcing questions for Matt Mullenweg- August 6, 2008 Got a question you&8217;ve just been dying to ask the Wordpress development team Well, here&8217;s your chance. Wordpress founding developer Matt Mullenweg will be at WordCamp 2008 in Toronto. Interviewer Roz Allen is looking for some help in developing a line of questioning. Head over to the therozblog.com and post your questions to her comment ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/06/crowdsourcing-questions-for-matt-mullenweg/ Configuring iPhone for VPN- August 6, 2008 For the last few days I&8217;ve been scratching my head on a particularly knotty problem &8212; configuring iPhone 3G to access our corporate VPN over 3G wireless. Rogers, bless their hearts, hasn&8217;t made this easy. By reading the marvelous Howard Forums, visiting the Apple store in Toronto for help, and checking Apple&8217;s support boards, I&8217;ve ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/06/configuring-iphone-for-vpn/ How fast is Rogers 3G- August 5, 2008 Over dinner last night, Jonathan Greene remarked how fast Rogers 3G network seemed. He lives in New York City. Hmmm&8230; how fast is it, I wondered This morning I tethered a phone to my PC, and ran the tests at speedtest.net, targeting the Toronto test server. As you can see, while it&8217;s not yet the same ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/08/05/how-fast-is-rogers-3g/ |