Press citations

2010

[4/30] I am quoted in the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/04/30/family_provider_far_apart_over_nearly_18000_phone_bill/?page=full) on cellphone pricing.

[3/5] I served as an expert on CBC Marketplace (http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2010/canadas_worst_cellphone_bill/main.html) that featured a story on Canada's worst cell phone bill.

[2/2] It doesn't make sense to me to have to pay a touch-tone (http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/02/02/consumer-touch-tone-service-bell.html) fee every month - and many other Canadians agree.

[2/1] The story that just won't die... CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs/index.html) quotes me on text messaging.

2009

[12/24/09] I was quoted in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/technology/companies/24blackberry.html?_r=1) about Blackberry outages. The quote got picked up by a Spanish newspaper (http://www.siliconnews.es/es/news/2009/12/24/blackberry-problemas-america).

[9/10/09] My Senate testimony (http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3917) is mentioned in Time magazine (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1921373,00.html?iid=tsmodule) and The Hindu (http://beta.thehindu.com/business/article22572.ece).

[7/14] UW press release (http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=5091) on VLink (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/vlink). This showed up in the UW Daily Bulletin (http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2009/jul/15we.html), IT World Canada (http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/52c306df-c2ab-4d2f-891a-a637041e10f6.html) and the Waterloo Region Record (http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/570968). Here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/09/vlink.pdf) is a presentation describing VLink.

[6/19/09] An interesting development in Saskatchewan (http://www.leaderpost.com/Technology/SaskTel+disclosing+profit+margins+text+messages/1710390/story.html).

[6/18/09] I was on CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/18/tech-text-message-pricing-keshav-cellphone.html) Radio's 'The Current' this morning with Anna Maria Tremonti.

[6/17/09] Press reports on my testimony (http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3917) yesterday: Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090616-714304.html), National Post (http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/technology/story.html?id=1702339) (which is accurate, except that my computation is that a wireless channel can carry 81 texts/minute, not 420). The National Post article got syndicated to a whole slew of papers in Canada (http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=srinivasan+keshav&cf=all&scoring=d).

[2/20/09] I did an email interview with the Italian online newspaper Il Salvagente (http://www.ilsalvagente.it/index.jsp) that you can find here (http://www.ilsalvagente.it/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Un%20Sms%20costa%203%20centesimi:%20perch%C3%A9%20lo%20paghiamo%2015%20cent?&idSezione=2300). A translation (http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.ca%2Fnews%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26ct%3Dca%2F0-0%26fp%3D499e8cdc68f799ef%26ei%3DBOWeSZD2BZ6qmQfF99XJDA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%2F%2Fwww.ilsalvagente.it%2FSezione.jsp%253Ftitolo%253DUn%252520Sms%252520costa%2525203%252520centesimi%253A%252520perch%2525C3%2525A9%252520lo%252520paghiamo%25252015%252520cent%253F%2526idSezione%253D2300%26cid%3D0%26sig2%3DWwpj_q4sJMK3jzng9_L3qg%26usg%3DAFQjCNEeGXEE3abpLpFhVcuxU6fUUF3W4g&sl=it&tl=en&history_state0=).

2008

[12/27/08] I am quoted on the cost of SMS in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=1&ref=technology). This got picked up as an editorial in The Ottawa Citizen (http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/When+thumbs+talking/1145369/story.html) which also appeared in the Windsor Star and the Regina Leader-Post. Several magazines picked this up, including Computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9124521&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top). Surprisingly, it also got picked up in Italy: Agenda Communicazione (http://www.agendacomunicazione.it/?id=3447&tsd=1&tit=%3Cbr%20/%3EGLI%20SMS?%20%3Cbr%20/%3EALLE%20COMPAGNIE%20TELEFONICHE%20%3Cbr%20/%3ENON%20COSTANO%20NULLA) i-dome (http://www.i-dome.com/docs/index.phtml?_id_articolo=13215-LSMS-alloperatore-costa-0-centesimi-di-euro....html) and Il Secolo XIX (http://ilsecoloxix.ilsole24ore.com/genova/2009/01/28/1202048453724-gli-sms-spedirli-costa-caro-operatori-non-costa-nulla.shtml).

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[11/6/08] I did an interview on Radio Canada International (http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/dossiers/44920.shtml) about KioskNet.

[10/26/08] The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Chennai_IITians_help_village_go_WiFi/articleshow/3641683.cms) ran an article describing the use of KioskNet at a village in South India.

[4/8/08] The Economic Times (http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=RVRELzIwMDgvMDQvMDgjQXIwMDYwMg==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom) in India mentions work by Rajat Sethi, who interned with me at Waterloo, and who is using KioskNet technology for villages in Eastern India.

[3/3/08] The local Waterloo area newspaper--the Record (http://www.therecord.com)--ran an article on KioskNet that you can find here (http://news.therecord.com/Life/article/317346).

2007

[[11/27/07] I am quoted in an article in Liberation.fr (http://www.liberation.fr/sciences/0101116273-le-telephone-s-invente-au-sud), a French online magazine, on cellphone usage in the South.

[8/1/07] My research group's work on smartphones was mentioned in the New Scientist (http://tinyurl.com/28p75n).

[5/4/07] CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/iphone-security.html) quotes me on security risks on the iPhone.

[4/30/07] CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/web-desktop-software.html) carried my view on the inevitable centralization of computing.