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Saturday, August 14
Apple developing a wireless handheld?
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 14 Aug 2004 06:36 AM EDT
Apple Computer was first off the mark when it comes to computers you can hold in the palm of your hand. Apple's Newton, though, was too far ahead of its time, the pundits said. I never got to try a Newton. I have, however, used lots of handhelds from ... more »
Canada's physicist of the year
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 14 Aug 2004 06:05 AM EDT
Today's Globe and Mail has my profile of Mike Thewalt, a physicist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Thewalt's a neat guy and his work on the spectroscopy of silicon helped him get the nod as Canada's physicist of the year:
Physicist of the year Mike ... more »
How about a 540 Mbps wireless pipe?
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 14 Aug 2004 05:40 AM EDT
I was once told by some technicians at Atlantic Canada phone company Aliant that to get television signal over DSL, you needed about 6 megabits-per-second of bandwidth. At the time of this conversation, Aliant was testing out its Vibe home Internet service in some parts of Moncton, New Brunswick, which ... more »
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