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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 |
Saturday, August 14
Apple developing a wireless handheld?
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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
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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?
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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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