Canada has higher average growth than all other regions in Deloitte’s 2006 Technology Fast 500 Ranking
October 20, 2006
Last year only one Canadian company made it into the top ten, this year there are five. In addition, Canada claims the top average growth of all North American regions. To download the full list and ranking, go here.
-The National Post - Canada’s tech firms outpacing U.S. ones: Half of the top ten companies in this year’s Deloitte Fast 500 are based in Canada
-ITbusiness.ca - Name, rank and number: Shane Schick puts it into perspective
Here are “Canada’s Top Five Fast 500“:
More mobile messaging
August 8, 2006
Research firm M:Metrics says picture messaging is on the rise because more people own camera phones these days. Jupiter Research comments that ”the growth in MMS (multimedia message service) has still been very very slow compared to what mobile phone operators had hoped for” and that “a growth in uptake of camera phones has been fuelled by the fact that there are decreasingly small amounts of non-camera phones available in the market place” (via BBC News - Technology).
Well, I didn’t buy my phone because of the camera. But now that it is there, I have started to use it. For example when I ended up in the middle of a World Cup party.
Maybe new mobile software will help drive growth for multimedia messaging. The findings by M:Metrics should be an encouraging sign for software developers such as Toronto-based Ambient Vector who build new kinds of social networking offerings to be used with camera phones.
When I was in Europe in June I was surprised how much text and picture messaging is used by people of all ages. I have sent and received way more messages on my cell phone in those few weeks over there than in the last 18 months in Canada.
The roaming worked perfectly with my Fido phone for both voice communication and text messaging. But now that I am back in Canada, I get error messages (did my phone overdose on SMS in Europe?) Need to get that fixed.
Drowning in content?
August 7, 2006
“[T]he total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second. This is about double the volume of about a year ago.“
David Sifry, CEO, Technorati in State of the Blogosphere report, August 2006
So many postings, so little time. If blog search engines aren’t doing the job for you, Forbes.com columnist Jack Trout has some tips on dealing with Info-clutter.
The blogosphere continues to grow at an amazing pace. Go to David Sifry’s blog entry for all the numbers.
The Internet and the way we spend our time
August 2, 2006
Statscan today realeased the findings of a survey on “The Internet and the way we spend our time”. Most of the findings aren’t really surprising. But I found it interesting that heavy users watch about the same amount of television as non-users. So the Internet isn’t really replacing television as a favourite past time. I must be an exception.
(via The Star)
Opportunities for IT Vendors
April 9, 2006
According to an IDC 2005 survey of medium and large businesses that is mentioned in IDC Canada’s April 2006 IT Matters newsletter, 70 per cent of large companies agreed that they’d be “open to dealing with new IT vendors”. That’s good news for vendors who are trying to get their foot in the door with Canadian enterprises.
My guess is that the openness varies considerably depending on which part of the IT system the new vendor is targeting and how big the pain is that the solution addresses. IDC says that “addressing less glamorous business challenges” may help close the sale.
The Web has doubled in size since 2003
April 8, 2006
According to Netcraft’s April web server survey, there are 80 million hostnames on the Internet now. This means the number has doubled since reaching 40 million in April 2003.
(via heise.de)
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