CAB Monday: Tech trends tale

VANCOUVER – Stephen Armstrong didn't exactly have the easiest of tasks in front of him yesterday: Explain all new and developing media trends in 75 minutes. The massive shifts in media consumption is keyed off of one major growth product: broadband. Quoting research, Armstrong said that by 2010, 422 million homes around the world will have broadband access. That works out to about 18.5% of all the world's households, he calculated. In Canada, 51% of us have broadband in our homes and growth continues. Plus, "it's no longer the exclusive preserve of wireline carriers," he added, pointing to developments in...