Tag: michael giest

  • Is the CRTC ready to reverse position on UBB?

    Michael Geist sums of last week’s developments in the ongoing UBB saga, from the Toronto Star: The CRTC commissioners appear to have recognized that proposals based on limiting the volume of Internet use are not only bad policy — discouraging Internet use benefits no one — but are ineffective in dealing with network congestion. The…


  • Canadian Tech News: October 19th – Why US Apps Hate Canada, Toddler Photos, Windows Phone 7, dot-ca

    It’s been over a week since the last Canadian tech news roundup, so I’ll jump right into it: Michael Giest: Why are U.S. net services slow to migrate north There are countless examples of web services that take years to get here and even more that never make it. Michael Giest has an interesting column…