Category Archives: Business
Phone Manufacturers in Operating System’s Shadow?
Looking at Bell’s website for mobile phones two things are very clear: They are only advertising smartphones, dumbphones are ancient history There are four groups of phones: iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry If I were Motorola, Samsung, LG, or … Continue reading
The Daily Graph
Every day I get a daily report of yesterday’s performance. When I opened today’s report, something stuck out. Gulp. Smacked in the face by a graph looking like this. Uh oh. A graph such as this could be either very … Continue reading
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RIM Should Bring PlayBook Features to the Desktop
One of the coolest features of the BlackBerry PlayBook is the ability to connect a BlackBerry to the tablet via Bluetooth. Once connected, you can access your BlackBerry’s e-mail, calendar, BBM, tasks, and documents, as well as use the phone’s … Continue reading
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Globe and Mail iPad App Launches
I just downloaded the Globe and Mail’s new iPad app. This is the second high profile Canadian iPad app to be released in the last few days, the first being The Score. The Globe’s app is actually very nice. You … Continue reading
Won the Telfer Business Model Competition!
On Wednesday I competed with three great team members in the Telfer Business Model Competition. Up against 20+ really strong teams, we came out on top and won 1st place. Our business BadServer.ca – which I like to describe as … Continue reading
TelferBooks.com – buy/sell textbooks
At the end of last summer I quickly created a classifieds website for Telfer students to buy and sell their used textbooks. Students often sell their books back to the bookstore at criminally low prices. TelferBooks would offer an easy … Continue reading
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Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge
Recently I was selected as one of 16 students at the Telfer School of Management to participate in the Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge. The school describes this event as: “The Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge (ECC) is a one year competition through which … Continue reading
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MISA Club website redesign is live!
As the VP Marketing/Creative for the MISA Club at the Telfer School of Management, I managed the project of building a new website for MISA. After a lot of design revisions and scrapping various drafts throughout the summer, the new … Continue reading
RIM acquires Torch Mobile, browser developers
I just read on CrackBerry that RIM has acquired Torch Mobile, a company that develops a WebKit browser for mobile devices. This browser, Iris, sounds interesting. Here is Torch Mobile’s description of it: The Iris Browser is an advanced, high-performance … Continue reading
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