Canadian Technology Stocks
Early this year Research in Motion sold their fifty-millionth BlackBerry. The rise of the Waterloo, ON based company has become the stuff of legend. The dedication of their followers inspired the phrase “CrackBerry”, a term so apt that the November 2006 Webster’s New World College Dictionary named “CrackBerry” the “New Word of the Year.” Blackberry [...]
Read the words fish-farming, or aquaculture in the media and it’s never long before you are reading the word controversial. As little as five years ago there were just two sides debating the topic and neither was retreating. On one side were groups like GreenPeace, which has opposed open net cage fish farms for more [...]
Are high resource prices masking an underlying crisis in the Canadian economy? No less of an authority than Denzil Doyle, who many believe could be the most important figure in Canadian technology history, thinks our economy is not nearly diverse enough. We talk to the man who was founding president of Digital Equipment Corporation’s Canadian subsidiary, invested in numerous technology startups as Chairman of Capital Alliance Ventures, and served on the board of Mitel, Gennum, GEAC Computer and Newbridge Networks about Nortel, taxes, the tar sands, and why Canada needs Research in Motion to stay independent.
Has Canada seen a more compact and dramatic rags-to riches-to rags story than that of Timminco? The spectacular rise and fall of the Toronto based solar-silcon and silcion metal producer seems to be torn from the pages of a Hollywood script or Broadway musical. In late 2006, Timminco shares were worth pennies, closing that year [...]
When your business is growing by leaps and bounds, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. For mobile network operators worldwide, their current situation is a double edged sword. Because everyone, including your grandmother, now has a Blackberry or an iPhone, the congestion and data capacity crisis has come to a [...]
“Introducing inventions with mass appeal to the world.” That slogan is the way that Ottawa’s Wi-LAN, which holds a roster of patents covering everything from Bluetooth technology to WiMAX base stations to routers, sees itself. If certain people, and by certain people we mean people like Judge T. John Ward of the U.S. District Court [...]
