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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 |
Wednesday, July 14
Bell Canada tries to kill Frame Relay and ATM networks
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DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jul 2004 08:27 PM EDT
Writing in the excellent industry newsletter Telemanagement, published by the Angus Telemanagement Group Inc. of Ajax, Ont., John Riddell reports that Bell Canada is keen to phase out all Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services over the next decade. No new Frame Relay or ATM contracts are ... more »
EDS Canada has a new CFO
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DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jul 2004 10:50 AM EDT
EDS Canada, the unit of Electronic Data Systems
Corp. of Plano, Texas, has appointed Brian Brewer as its new chief
financial officer. Brewer was the CFO for Acklands-Grainger Inc. and before
that CFO for Xerox Canada Inc. He's also worked for Imperial Oil. more »
Here comes Canada's new bank machines
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DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jul 2004 10:42 AM EDT
Tuesday, July 13
Workshop: Blogging and Public Journalism
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DavidAkin
on Tue 13 Jul 2004 11:07 PM EDT
Next month, Toronto hosts the annual conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication . This is a big group, about 3,500 members, mostly Americans, and they've taken over some downtown Toronto hotels for this event.
As part of the pre-conference hoopla, the Canadian Newspaper Association and ... more »
A St. John's taxi scandal and some Newfoundland bloggers
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DavidAkin
on Tue 13 Jul 2004 10:41 PM EDT
It took 12 years but the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is sure it's got the bad guys in its sights. The bad guys, in this case, happen to be just about anyone and everyone who ran a cab stand in St. John's, Canada's oldest city and the capital of the ... more »
Fired for mailing porn at work, gov't is told to re-hire offenders
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DavidAkin
on Tue 13 Jul 2004 04:17 PM EDT
In 2001, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) discovered that 90 employees were surfing porn sites on work computers and often e-mailing the contents to others. At least one porn-filled e-mail was sent from an Ontario government e-mail account to employees at Chrylser Corp. The Chrysler folks complained and the ... more »
Sunday, July 11
A proposal for Wifi-hubs to be built into landlines...
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DavidAkin
on Sun 11 Jul 2004 08:47 PM EDT
[Clipped from Tom Coates' blog. These are his ideas, not mine and that's one of the reasons they make so much sense :) ]
"So I've been thinking a lot about ubiquitous home networks recently, and the ways in which various appliances might start hooking up to the internet and ... more »
Saturday, July 10
Humour: You've all seen these, right? The Switch spoofs?
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DavidAkin
on Sat 10 Jul 2004 10:44 PM EDT
I saw Chris Hill's spoofs of Apple's Switch campaign a while ago but Doc Searls reminds us of them again today. If you've not seen them yet, go pay a visit to Chris' site. The "Switch to Mac" spoof is here and it's great but I think the ... more »
Thursday, July 8
This Magazine: Now online!
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DavidAkin
on Thu 08 Jul 2004 10:09 PM EDT
This Magazine is putting its content online. Terrific news. (Well, terrific news for fans of writing that is often angry, usually lefty, but generally optimistic, and constantly struggling. If you subscribe to the Western Standard, then this probably is not for you. Of course, the Western Standard is also ... more »
Cool gadgets I want, Pt. VXXII
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DavidAkin
on Thu 08 Jul 2004 09:13 PM EDT
As I cover Apple Computer for the Globe and Mail, I hang around lots of Mac and Apple rumour and news sites. One of the things that the enthusiasts at those sites have been hopeful for is that Apple takes the success it has had with the iPod and ... more »
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