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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 |
Monday, June 7
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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