Alberta Business Marketing

How a Calgary firm expanded beyond Blackberries to reach 10.3 million people Continue reading →

Tags: blackberry, Fast Growth 50, Growing Concern, leadership, Poynt
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Everything you need to know in mobile, cable and other telecommunications news

Tags: apple, blackberry, Industry Reports - Information Technology and Telecommunications, Mobile, RIM, Telecommunications
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With a new release of products, Canadian tech giant Research in Motion tries to recapture its place at the top of the mobile market. But is it too little, too late?

Tags: blackberry, Bold, RIM, Tech Essentials
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It looks like my predictions about Blockbuster and RIM are coming true. In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I discuss what options are available to Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, in the shadow of a massive stock price drop. We talk about what this means for the Canadian tech sector, national pride, and Kitchener-Waterloo tech startups by looking at Critical Mass and the oil and gas industry in Calgary. We also look at how they might be able to get back on track by examining comparisons to Google and Apple’s work.

albertaatnoon June 20 2011

This is our last Tech and Trends column before we take a summer hiatus. Time to start dreaming up some new ideas for topics for the fall…

Tags: apple, blackberry, Blockbuster, CBC Radio Column, Critical Mass, google, Research in Motion, RIM, technology
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In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with guest host Holly Preston and I talk about the BlackBerry Playbook, calling it a cross between a tablet and a smart phone, while highlighting it’s touch border, lack of apps, user interface, and it’s need to tether to a BlackBerry. We also discuss the GSlate and other Android tablets. Yes, they play flash and it’s powerful and less expensive. We also talk about how the tablet market has taken off – we’ve realized we didn’t want bells and whistles and buttons on our computers, we just wanted functionality – and third party developers are being leveraged to customize every device. What’s next? The restaurant industry.

albertaatnoon April 20 2011

 

Tags: android, blackberry, BlackBerry Playbook, CBC Radio Column, GSlate, tablets, technology
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