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As a Rogers customer, I can say by experience that Rogers throttles as well as Bell (and has ridiculously low bandwidth caps), so you're back to actually no choices. But don't take my word for it - google (try "rogers throttling bittorrent") will give you a bunch of sources for this, such as this story.

The above article also indicates that other patents held by InPro where overturned by German and UK officials in the last week.

RIM shares were up almost one per cent on Friday trading on the TSX. Analysts and fund managers who hold RIM shares say its looks increasingly likely that RIM will settle its ongoing patent dispute with NTP Inc. of Virginia, rather than see the service blacked out.

Also, one of TFA includes no information that would justify the comment that the USPTO is under pressure from congressmen to speed up its process of looking into the NTP patents. From the TFA:

The U.S. represents about 70 per cent of the BlackBerry market, and the prospect that a judge would issue an injunction closing down the service has business executives and political leaders wondering how they will get along without the devices. The U.S. government has even joined the dispute, arguing that BlackBerry's are vital to national security.

Right around the time the parties will be meeting in Judge Spencer's courtroom, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may be moving toward a final resolution of the NTP patents at the heart of this dispute. Last December, the office issued another set of preliminary rulings that found NTP's patents to be invalid. NTP's response is due by Feb. 28. A report this week by analysts at investment banker Goldman Sachs noted that "NTP must prove that these patents contain new inventions on several key patents by Feb. 28 or face the PTO permanently rejecting the patents," the authors wrote. "If the PTO issues final rejections on any or all of the five NTP patents, this could change the course of the lawsuit. To the extent that patents are ruled invalid, we believe that it is likely that this would be considered by the District Court."

RIM shares were up almost one per cent on Friday trading on the TSX. Analysts and fund managers who hold RIM shares say its looks increasingly likely that RIM will settle its ongoing patent dispute with NTP Inc. of Virginia, rather than see the service blacked out.

Also, one of TFA includes no information that would justify the comment that the USPTO is under pressure from congressmen to speed up its process of looking into the NTP patents. From the TFA:

The U.S. represents about 70 per cent of the BlackBerry market, and the prospect that a judge would issue an injunction closing down the service has business executives and political leaders wondering how they will get along without the devices. The U.S. government has even joined the dispute, arguing that BlackBerry's are vital to national security.

Right around the time the parties will be meeting in Judge Spencer's courtroom, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may be moving toward a final resolution of the NTP patents at the heart of this dispute. Last December, the office issued another set of preliminary rulings that found NTP's patents to be invalid. NTP's response is due by Feb. 28. A report this week by analysts at investment banker Goldman Sachs noted that "NTP must prove that these patents contain new inventions on several key patents by Feb. 28 or face the PTO permanently rejecting the patents," the authors wrote. "If the PTO issues final rejections on any or all of the five NTP patents, this could change the course of the lawsuit. To the extent that patents are ruled invalid, we believe that it is likely that this would be considered by the District Court."

Here in Canada, cell phone numbers will soon be portable. From a company to another, a plan to another, from landline to portable. http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/2831299265946 25.php

For all the "har har i'm so funny lets bash canadians" comments out there, it should be noted that recently the Canadian dollar has actually been going up, rather then doing poorly like a certain someone's currency.

That would be funny, if the present U.S. financial mismanagement and the resulting weak U.S dollar hadn't been driving the Canadian dollar to new heights. Eighty cents and climbing. Maybe it will surpass the US$ again, as it did in the seventies.

The Loonie is so strong now, that it's negatively affecting our trade with the U.S. It's so strong that something has to be done quickly.

Having said all that, Vancouver is a great place to hold a conference.

yo.

Actually there's this story & link from the Ottawa business Journal. Dunno if it is anything like Not Nortel or not, but it may be a start for them...

• 75% goes to the top 5 employees (CEO, CFO, etc)
  
• 15% goes to the next top 50 employees (sr VPs, directors
  
• 10% goes to the remaining "key" personnel, which is typically only a fraction of the employees
  

That means that the sales and service employees of WorldCom would get about 9250$ each, and the top 5 execs would share over 18.5 million, or about 3,750,000

(Note: I read this on Forbes or Fortune, but I can't find the article for reference. I'll keep looking.)

If you think this is absurd, consider this: The Ottawa Business Journal released their annual CEO compensation report. It's basically the breakdown of what CEOs and other COs make in the city of Ottawa every year. This year they had to produce two statistics: one that included 5 JDS Uniphase executives, and one that didn't. This was required because the total revenue for the 5 JDS execs on the list was 14 times the compensation for the other 120 non-JDS execs on the list. Consider:

Average Salary (inc. JDS execs): 6.3 M$
Average Salary (not inc. JDS): 430 K$

Total Compensation, JDS execs: 724 M$
Total Compensation, remaining 120 execs: 51 M$

(And that includes the executives from Nortel, Corel, Cadence, Cognos, and bunch of other fairly large (1000+ employees) companies.

Ottawa Business Journal

It remains to be seen what WorldCom does with this money, but I predict it will be more of the same.

Phemur

The first line of the article states in reference to the Netwinder appliance:

"The technology product that drove Rebel.com's business plan and also led to its demise is being resurrected to create a new Ottawa company."

Perhaps I am missing something, but what would make these investors believe that the final outcome of this new venture will prove to be any more profitable? If anything, I would point to the current state of the world's economy as even more reason not to resurrect a once-dead product of the infamous Dot-Com era...