In the biggest event in telecommunications since the Strowger Switch of 1880, Canadian common carrier Shaw Communications last week dropped plans to enter the cellular market for a 100% Wi-Fi network. “One of the things that we’re good at is looking at how we spend capital,” Shaw president Peter Bissonnette told reporter Iain Marlow at … Continue reading
We’ve just seen one of the most amazing events in industrial history. The number one player in a $184 billion global market is being forced to exit by the sixth ranked competitor with fifty percent less market share. What happened? Apple sucked all the profits out of the PC business, forcing Hewlett-Packard to pack up. … Continue reading
by Sean White: Apple is taking advantage of improvements in processing, storage and bandwidth as fast as any player in the market. Normally, we talk about Moore’s Law driving technology. This holds that the number of transistors that can be placed on a chip doubles every 18 months. And so, today’s most inexpensive iPod has … Continue reading
