Skyway West Recommended June 4th to June 10th
Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…
IT World Canada: Rogers requests CRTC to regulate cellular consumer protection
Canada’s telecommunications regulator must create a national consumer protection scheme for wireless subscribers to stop provinces from adopting potentially conflicting laws, says a wireless carrier executive. Read More…
IT World Canada: Mobilicity calls for cap on international wirelesss roaming fees
Ottawa has to follow Europe’s lead and put a cap on international wirelesss roaming fees to bring down the cost of using cellphones out of the country, says the head of a start-up wireless carrier. Read more…
IT World Canada: CRTC Chair says cable, telephone and cellular companies should help poor get PCs
‘We have no money,’ acting chair tells CANADIAN TELECOM SUMMIT conference. Instead, he suggests carriers follow the lead of American cablecos and come up with a program. The federal telecommunications regulator can’t help bring computers to poor families, the head of the agency has told a conference. Read more…
PC Mag: June 6th is IPv6 Launch Day
On June 6, many major ISPs and Internet companies permanently turned on IPv6, the next-generation networking technology, to complement their existing network infrastructure. Read More…
IT World Canada: Wind Mobile appeals to Shaw and Videotron to take on Big 3 Wireless carriers
The head of Wind Mobile has made a pitch to two of the country’s biggest cablecos to join him in his fight against the three big wireless carriers. In a speech Wednesday to the Canadian Telecom Summit, Wind chairman Tony Lacavera said it’s time new wireless entrants co-operated “to build Canada’s third national carrier.” Read more…
NY Times: LinkedIn Was Breached. Now What Do You Do?
Security researchers have confirmed that a file containing 6.5 million encoded LinkedIn passwords has been posted to a Russian hacker site. LinkedIn has yet to confirm the breach, but it took to its Twitter account Wednesday to tell users it was investigating the matter. Read More…
Map, Telegeography.com: 2012 Global Internet Map; 1st Europe 40 Tbps, 2nd Canada/US 17 Tbps
Atlantic Wire: The End of the Password as We Know It
After two big password hacks on two major Internet sites, it looks like the whole password security system has become obsolete. Don’t take our word for it, the man who invented MD5crypt*, a popular password encryption tool, has declared his creation isn’t safe anymore. “As the author of md5crypt, I implore everybody to migrate to a stronger password scrambler without undue delay,”wrote Poul-Henning Kamp on his personal blog. Not only does he consider his system obsolete, he thinks all sites with more than 50,000 passwords to protect should come up with their own unique encryption algorithms. Read More…
GigaOm: Microsoft paints Windows Azure with open source brush
For someone who’s watched Microsoft on and off for more than 20 years, today’sMeet Azure event was eye-opening, even though much of the content had been telegraphed, leaked and covered well in advance. Most striking was that the company bent over backward to not portray Windows Azure as, well, Windows-like. Read More…
IT World Canada: Demand for mobile spectrum may almost double
Data traffic over Canadian cellular networks will grow up to thirty times over the next four years, according to a report for Industry Canada. Hardly a day goes by without a Canadian carrier, major handset maker or mobile applications developer issuing a press release mentioning the huge leap in demand here for wireless services. Read more…
Globe and Mail: Harper government picks Jean-Pierre Blais as next CRTC Chairman
The Harper government has picked Jean-Pierre Blais to serve as the next chairman of Canada’s telecom and broadcast regulator – a veteran bureaucrat expected to be less inclined to lock horns with the Conservatives than previous chairman Konrad von Finckenstein. Read More…
Search Consumerization: Enterprises gain Google Docs offline support via Quickoffice
With its recent purchase of Quickoffice, Google can offer enterprises Google Docs offline and native clients for mobile devices, which Microsoft has yet to provide for Office. Read More…