Alec Saunders SquawkBox

After my experience getting charged with overage on my Unlimited-But-Very-Limited Blackberry data plan, several readers sent me links to the Rogers Blackberry Users petition.  It turns out my case is actually pretty tame compared to some of the users out there who have been charged thousands of dollars.  Some folks also suggested a complaint to the Competition Bureau,  which is probably a more effective way to get a result from Rogers.

For now, I’ve written to the Rogers VP in charge and will wait to see what happens.  I suspect that what happened was simply a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.  They introduced a new product and overlooked the data usage issue.  If Rogers responds, they can be customer service heroes.

David Kearns, writing in Network World, has offered an identity based view of what we do at iotum.  Much of what we talked about as we were developing the early designs was the "Who, What, Where, When, Why" of communications.  We boiled that down to the overarching concept of relevance, and ultimately identity becamse one of the 3 pillars of Voice 2.0.  It’s nice to see someone latch onto those ideas.

He also mentioned that he saw us at ETel.  One of the the exciting things I walked away from ETel with was the work being done in identity. Although not part of the main conference, for the most part, there were a gaggle of identity geeks at the show enthusiastically promoting XRI.