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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Thursday, April 1
April Fool's Jokes -- The Media's Best Ones
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DavidAkin
on Thu 01 Apr 2004 10:52 PM EST
I never thought I'd be quoting Pravda back to anyone, but here I am, with a pointer to a Pravda article on the 10 best April Fool's Jokes perpetrated by the media.. I liked the one where an Irish newspaper wrote that Disney was looking to buy Lenin so it do its own version of Lenin's tomb in Disneyland! more »
More on the Canadian Recording Industry Association's big loss
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DavidAkin
on Thu 01 Apr 2004 07:11 AM EST
The Canadian Recording Industry Association plans to appeal a Federal Court of Canada ruling yesterday that not only denied CRIA's request to force ISPs to turn over some customer records of alleged file-swappers but also said downloading and uploading in Canada do not infringe copyright. The link to my report ... more »
Some techie stuff -- CTV's Gateway profiled in the Globe
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DavidAkin
on Thu 01 Apr 2004 07:01 AM EST
At CTV, we move video across the country and around the world on
high-capacity fibre links -- a kind of souped-up Internet. This system is
relatively new -- less than two years old. We call it the Gateway. It lets
me, for example, look at video on my desktop from ... more »
Windows more secure the Linux?
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DavidAkin
on Thu 01 Apr 2004 06:27 AM EST
Forrester Research makes what is surely a controversial conclusion: Microsoft's Windows platform is a more secure computing platform than various Linux computing platforms. Forrester's counts the number of flaws in each platform over a given period of time and then analyzes how long it took for that flaw to be ... more » |
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