[[libsyn_player]] 0.29 â Duncan Stewart is back as a special guest for all things Nortel and in particular an executive called Joel Hackney 1.18 â Hackney was in North Carolina when he confronted a lady who honked him for cutting her off in a car park. He plead guilty to false imprisonment, uttering threats and assault on a female. Mark was surprised to see his Nortel blog becoming the source for Nortel information for Nortel employees 1.59 â Duncanâs take is that Nortel needs to be whiter than white and shouldâve taken the Tylenol approach and got out in front of the scandal. Mark agrees and gets some props from Duncan 3.40 â Itâs an interesting case study on what to do with a strange issue. Blogs can be very opinionated and so how the blogosphere deals with certain events is more and more important 4.39 â Duncan disagrees with Mark that âgoing darkâ buys a company more time. Nortel needed to say âthis happened, we are examining it and we will deal with itâ. They didnât and by not doing it the issue escalated 5.15 â Duncan talks about how the democratization of the investigative journalist and the democratization of information flow will effect a companyâs communications processes 5.50 â Mark brings up Peter Currieâs resignation and the newest restatement from Nortel. Kevin thinks itâs getting embarrassing even if the market isnât penalizing Nortel yet. Duncan thinks Nortel should restate more often 8.03 â Mark brings up Wireless Number Portability â something thatâs coming up on March 13. Kevin thinks not advertising the date of WNP means the wireless carriers are viewing it as a zero sum game 9.20 â A study for Seaboard Group shows that Canadian wireless users typically pay 56 per cent more than the average U.S. user and 30 per cent more than European users. Duncan brings up an analogy to illustrate the problem â more competition is needed, not WNP 10.55 â Kevin thinks foreign ownership or preferred conditions for new entrants is the answer 11.45 â Mark thinks the market is like a runway. Penetration is only at about 55 per cent of the market so thereâs more room to grow. Until penetration gets to 75 per cent or higher, there wonât be too much aggressive competition 13.26 â Stock theme of the week is the deal between Oracle and Hyperion. This effects Canadaâs largest software company, Cognos another billion dollar market cap BI vendor. Every time Oracle buys a BI player, Cognosâs value jumps as the merging companyâs customer base suffers through integration challenges 15.05 â Mark ends things with a plug for mesh conference and the key note speakers who include Mike Arriginton, Richard Edelman and Craigslistâs Jim Buckmaster, among others. Tickets are on sale now Audio comments for Mark and Kevin can be left on the Talking Tech hotline: 1 206-333-1327 or emailed to heytalkingtech@gmail.com. Our announcer is the lovely Amber Mac and the music is No Mojo by Anthony Stauffer and Holy Smoke which is available on the pod safe music network.

[ Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:45:00 GMT ]

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