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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 14
Help! Looking for parents of teenagers
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DavidAkin
on Mon 14 Jun 2004 05:21 PM EDT
The following note was sent around to my friends and colleagues in the PR world. Maybe you can help too. Read on: For a story I'm doing for CTV National News, I'm ... more »
Tim Berners-Lee finally makes his million
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DavidAkin
on Mon 14 Jun 2004 03:11 PM EDT
I was sitting one winter evening a few years ago in the parlour of Bob Metcalfe's townhouse on Boston's Back Bay with a plate of chicken and salad perched on my lap when Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, sat down next to me, a plate ... more »
Friday, June 11
Brazil the Movie -- Version 1 and Version 2
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DavidAkin
on Fri 11 Jun 2004 10:42 PM EDT
I loved Brazil and I'm pretty sure it was Gilliam's Brazil that I loved. Now I want to go rent a recent DVD collection of the movie. Here's a great bit from Aaron Swartz's blog:
If you like Brazil, you might also find interesting the incredible story on discs ... more »
May's most popular entries here at David Akin's blog
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DavidAkin
on Fri 11 Jun 2004 10:25 PM EDT
One of the fun things about the publishing platform this blog uses is that it lets you track the most popular blog entries, based on page views. Here are the top ten for May:
... more »
Xerox's Anne Mulcahy: CEO of a growth company?
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DavidAkin
on Fri 11 Jun 2004 10:59 AM EDT
Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy was in Toronto yesterday and I talked to her about her business. The Globe has the story I wrote but here's an extended version, with more details about Xerox's work to restore its balance sheet:
Communication by now was supposed to be nothing but electronic beeps ... more »
Expensing options will not hurt most tech earnings
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DavidAkin
on Fri 11 Jun 2004 10:50 AM EDT
By the end of this year, the U.S. accounting regulators are likely to require all U.S.-listed companies to account for the expense of their stock option programs on their income statements. Right now, it's up to each individual company to decide how it treats the accounting for stock options. Many ... more »
Wednesday, June 9
The Royal Bank's big software glitch
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DavidAkin
on Wed 09 Jun 2004 08:59 PM EDT
Reprinted below is a statement, issued late today, from the Royal Bank.
Canadian readers of this blog will be aware that Canada's biggest bank has
been working through an embarrassing and annoying technological problem. All
week long, we've been asking the bank what happened. Don't know if this
makes it ... more »
Help! My Macs cannot see my external CD-RW
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 09 Jun 2004 08:26 PM EDT
Attention all Mac OS uber-geeks: I've got a problem that is buggin' the heck out of me.
The other day, I bought a LaCie Porsche CD-RW FireWire external optical drive. Came home and plugged it into my 17" PowerBook. iTunes saw the drive and within seconds, I was burning ... more »
Apple keeps on rolling ...
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 09 Jun 2004 11:15 AM EDT
Shares of Apple Computer hit yet another 52-week high in trading this morning. That's the third day in a row it's touched new annual highs. I'd like to think that my story in today's Globe (Apple climbs to 52-week high on product news) helped fuel investor excitement but ... more »
Zero-Knowledge sues IBM
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DavidAkin
on Wed 09 Jun 2004 11:09 AM EDT
Montreal's Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. is suing International Business Machines Inc. for $7-million, alleging copyright violation and violation of Quebec's civil code.
I have a brief write-up on this in today's Globe. Zero-Knowledge, through its new wholly-owned subsidary Synomos, has put up the Statement of Claim and other documents filed ... more » |
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