Rumours, rumours!

Source: saunderslog.com

The rumour mill was working overtime yesterday, spinning new yarns and hyping up speculators everywhere.

Venture Beat reported that Facebook was planning to acquire Plaxo.  Shortly after, TechCrunch shot that rumour down, saying that "Facebook grows a new Plaxo every six days".  From a customer experience perspective, the combined feature set makes sense.  But there are so many other hurdles to overcome that this deal is probably a long way from being consummated.  We’ll be discussing this on this morning’s Squawk Box in a little over an hour.

RBC Capital Markets is fanning the "iPhone in Canada" flames this morning, with analyst Mike Abramsky speculating that there may be an announcement at MacWorld today.  Given recent speculation that Telus may cut it’s losses on CDMA and become a GSM carrier, perhaps Rogers felt that it was finally time to pull the trigger and announce a deal. 

Published on January 15th, 2008 under , , , , , ,


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Rumours, rumours!

Source: saunderslog.com

The rumour mill was working overtime yesterday, spinning new yarns and hyping up speculators everywhere.
Venture Beat reported that Facebook was planning to acquire Plaxo.  Shortly after, TechCrunc…

Published on January 15th, 2008 under , , , , , ,

Squawk Box Jan 14, 2008

Source: saunderslog.com

This morning’s Squawk Box podcast features Andy Abramson, Howard Thaw, and Randall Howard.  We discussed topics ranging from Google’s release of their iPhone browser stats, to t…

Published on January 14th, 2008 under , , , , , , , , , , ,

HTC Touch now “freeâ€? from Bell and Telus

Source: saunderslog.com

A fierce duel is being fought at retail by Telus and Bell.  When Bell announced unlimited data plans on HTC Touch devices for $7/month, Telus responded by dropping the price of t…

Published on December 13th, 2007 under , , , , , , ,

Verizon forbearance and the FCC

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There’s an interesting regulatory battle going on south of the border. "Forbearance" is a provision in the 1996 Telecom Act that allows the FCC to set aside the competition rules…

Published on December 3rd, 2007 under , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Mounting anger over Canadian mobile pricing

Source: saunderslog.com

The drums continue to beat this morning for lower cost cellular service in Canada. 

Jim Courtney explains, at length, the impact of Rogers’ monopolostic pricing on advanced services…

Published on November 7th, 2007 under , , , , , , , ,
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