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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Friday, December 10
Columnist Gillmor to leave Mercury News
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DavidAkin
on Fri 10 Dec 2004 11:05 AM EST
 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 »
Yet more errant CIBC faxes, plus TD Bank and Scotia also implicated in privacy breach
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DavidAkin
on Fri 10 Dec 2004 10:44 AM EST
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 »
Satellite radio gets more Canada
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DavidAkin
on Fri 10 Dec 2004 10:12 AM EST
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 »
Heather Ross is Lenovo's Canadian boss
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DavidAkin
on Fri 10 Dec 2004 08:22 AM EST
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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