Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
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View Article  Columnist Gillmor to leave Mercury News
Dan Gillmor, (left) one of the technology industry's most influential columnists, is leaving his paper, the San Jose Mercury News.
"I hope to pull together something useful that helps enable -- and demonstrates -- the emerging grassroots journalism that I wrote about in my recent book," Gillmor ...   more »
View Article  Yet more errant CIBC faxes, plus TD Bank and Scotia also implicated in privacy breach
The Montreal Gazette reported earlier this week that a businessman there, Stephen Oakes, has been receiving errant faxes from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for more than three years, the most recent of which arrived in September. And, just like West Virginia's Wade Peer, the faxes contained confidential ...   more »
View Article  Satellite radio gets more Canada
The New York Times reports today that, because of the CRTC's insistence on licensing radio services that include significant doses of Canadian content, proposed new satellite radio services may do two things: "...[Canadian] artists may be getting more exposure if satellite radio, with its hundreds of channels, is approved ...   more »
View Article  Heather Ross is Lenovo's Canadian boss
Last week, Heather Ross was in charge of IBM Canada Ltd.'s computer business.This week, she's still in charge of selling the same IBM-branded computers, but soon she'll be doing it for Lenovo Group Ltd., the Beijing company that is buying the personal computer business of International Business Machines Corp. of ...   more »
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