Broken Telephone

Another one bites the dust..

The Globe and Mail reported that for the first time Canadian Phone companies generated more revenue last year from wireless service than from their traditional land lines.

We are on the road to one less phone number each..

What an outdated concept.. a phone that only works within a certain range of a certain building..

How does that make sense when I can have real-time instant messenger, e-mail, and call waiting enabled phone service, from anywhere in the world - on my Blackberry?

Talk about a paradigm shift..

Nothing lasts forever, stamp everything you do with an expiration date, before someone else does it for you...

Ma Bell, it was nice to know you..

Living in the Brand Era

Yes, the new brand world is upon us. From Trendwatching.com identifying Branded-Brands to CBS using laser etched eggs to promote it's fall line up... brands are a valuable commodity.

So who is the best of the best? Earlier this week Interbrand released it's list of the top brands in Canada. You may or may not be surprised who's on the list:




Not on the list? Need to figure out how to get on the list?

Read Interbrand's full report here.

General Renault Nissan Motors

Finally a car company with an acronym longer than 3 letters.

It's amazing that the whole Nissan/Renault/GM issue is only being portrayed from the GM perspective - as though Carlos Ghosn is sitting around with nothing better to do than wait for Rich Wagoner to stop by and merge the companies.

I'm glad that the Board at GM approved the ability to approach Nissan/Renault. I just can't imagine that Nissan/Renault wants any part of the Edsel (whoops... Ford reference) that GM has become.

Time will tell, but if Nissan is smart (which they are) they'll entertain the talks, but that's about as far as they'll go for fear of ending up in the same boat as Mazda, Austin Martin, Volvo, and Land Rover..

When I think cool I think...

Bill Gates.



Yes, in an article yesterday in the International Herald Tribune reported that Microsoft is planning to unveil it's own competitor to the iPod. At this point I wish them the very best of luck.

Sure it will be at least as successful as thier previous attempt.. you know the ... er.. what was it called...

They are forgetting that the cardinal rule these days is counter-culture, and underground. Hence firefox, linux, and the rest of the open source gang. So, when I see good ol' Bill standing on stage touting his 'cool' new gadget, I will reach for a pair of white iPod headphones, to drone it out... kind of like the rest of you will too..