Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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    View Article  Does anyone anywhere actually use Bluetooth?
    by DavidAkin on Fri 27 Aug 2004 08:21 PM EDT
    There's always been a lot of yakking about Bluetooth, the short-range wireless networking technology built into the very laptop computer I'm using; into millions of cell phones, PDAs and other info-gadgets but you know what? I've never known anyone -- myself included -- to actually transfer any data over a ...   more »
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    View Article  Toronto Star has a new editor
    by DavidAkin on Fri 27 Aug 2004 03:45 PM EDT
    The Toronto Star has a new editor: Giles Gherson, formerly of the National Post and the Edmonton Journal, and currently the editor of Report On Business at the Globe and Mail, is the new Star editor, we've just learned over here on our side of Front Street.
    Giles ...   more »
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