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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 17
CIBC CEO updates fax apology
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 17 Dec 2004 11:26 AM EST
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CEO John Hunkin has updated his letter to
customers, first posted in the wake of reports we had about the bank
inadvertently faxing confidential customer to individuals outside the bank,
first to a guy in West Virginia, and then to a guy in Montreal. ... more »
Fitch picks up Toronto's Algorithmics for $175 Million
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 17 Dec 2004 11:20 AM EST
Algorithmics has been in business in Toronto since 1989, founded by a
way-too-smart mathematician named Ron
Dembo. They make software that helps big companies like banks analyze
risk. Today, it announced that Fitch
Group, a Fimalac SA company, had purchased the company for $175-million
(presumably that's U.S. $). more »
Wednesday, December 15
Sabia on BCE
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 15 Dec 2004 08:38 AM EST
Sabia says that more than 1 million Bell customers are now buying 3 or more products from Bell (Internet, mobile phone, phone or TV services).
Look for "smart automation" when you want it. "Today Bell.ca doesn't work. Only 1 per cent of our sale pass through that very low-cost channel." ... more »
Blogging Bell Canada's annual business review conference; BCE dividend jumps
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 15 Dec 2004 08:13 AM EST
I'm at the annual business review conference for Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE). BCE is Canada's largest telecommunications concern -- owner of Bell Canada and Bell Mobility among others -- and is also the company that controls Bell Globemedia, which is the company that owns the two organizations I work for, ... more »
Tuesday, December 14
AOL gets into the VOIP game
by
DavidAkin
on Tue 14 Dec 2004 08:00 AM EST
My colleague Simon Avery reports in today's Globe and Mail that AOL Canada, the Canadian unit of Time Warner Inc., will be the first AOL unit in the world to provide a voice-over-IP service. AOL Canada will offer it more »
Sunday, December 12
Some thoughts about BBC's Mark Thompson
by
DavidAkin
on Sun 12 Dec 2004 10:36 PM EST
The UK papers have some thoughts today about Mark Thompson, (seated, left) the director-general of the BBC, who made the news this week after announcing some big cuts at one of the world's most famous broadcasters. Among other things, he also promised to shift some jobs out of the capital of Britain's media and cultural life, London, more »
[What they said] Voting error in the 2004 elections
by
DavidAkin
on Sun 12 Dec 2004 09:32 PM EST
Clipped from Crooked Timber: Voting error in the 2004 elections: ...Philip Howard, has [taken] a very innovative approach to teaching his class on Communication Technology and Politics at the University of Washington this Fall. He and his students have been collecting data about the use of communication technologies in the elections and writing reports about their findings.... The latest article looks at voting error due to technological errors, residual votes and incident reports. more »Friday, December 10
Columnist Gillmor to leave Mercury News
by
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
by
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
by
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 »
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