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OPINION: Wireless web TV

THIS WEEK I THINK I finally saw a web-TV application that will actually work. It wasn’t on a television set, though, but on a mobile phone. Mark Henderson, the president of Ericsson Canada, showed conference delegates at this week’s excellent Canadian Telecom Summit what’s going on in the mobile space in other parts of the world and how he’s sure it will be here, too, and soon. While we North American holster-geeks might think we’re all pretty connected with our buzzing Blackberrys and assorted other PDAs and phones playing digital-quality rock or rap when a call comes in, only 55% of...