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Monday, June 7
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 07 Jun 2004 04:16 PM EDT
Several weeks ago, Apple Canada treated us to hands-on demo and briefing of Apple Computer's latest, coolest application called GarageBand. GarageBand is a music composition application that (my musician friends tell me) puts $100,000 digital recording studio on to your Mac. (And it costs about $90).
For the non-musician, ... more »
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 07 Jun 2004 02:56 PM EDT
I'm not even sure degunk is a word but if you've got a PC that's 'gunked', you know what this means. The good people over at tech publisher O'Reilly have a great little 12-step program set up to degunk your Windows-based PC.
Top 12 Ways to Degunk Your PC by ... more »
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 07 Jun 2004 02:02 PM EDT
Montreal's Hammie Hill and his two sons Austin and Hamnett are heading off with another start-up.
The Hills first hit the spotlight during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. After becoming millionaires when they sold off an Internet service provider business they started up while Austin and Hamnett were ... more »
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 07 Jun 2004 12:06 PM EDT
The New York Times' Matt Richtel takes a good luck at the really important issue of making money with high-speed wireless Internet access.
Where Entrepreneurs Go and the Internet Is Free:
..."It's going to be hard for commercial carriers to make a profit," said Dewayne Hendricks, the chief ... more »
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 07 Jun 2004 10:17 AM EDT
Canadian information technology companies hired almost no new employees during the industry bust of 2001, according to the first-ever Survey of Information Technology Occupations done by Statistics Canada. Four of five IT firms in Canada did not hire any new employees in the six months prior to the period the ... more » |
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