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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Conrad Black headed a "kleptocracy", critics charge
Newspaper barons Lord Conrad Black and his long-time associate David Radler led a "kleptocracy" at Hollinger International Inc., says a 400-page report prepared by an independent committee of directors of that company. The report was filed yesterday with a court in Illinois and made public today through the U.S. Securities ...   more »
View Article  Well, that's pretty cool: A new iMac from Apple
Apple took the wraps off its latest, greatest innovation this morning, a new iMac that compresses the all-in-one form factor of the first-generation iMacs into a machine that is basically a thick flat-screen display. More cool product design. The design team, incidentally, behind the new iMac are the same folks ...   more »
View Article  Computers in Canada get cheaper
Statistics Canada tracks just about anything that can be counted so I shouldn't be surprised to learn this morning that it maintains the Computer and Peripherals Price Index or CPPI in Statscan-speak. The federal agency just released the latest index for June and, it turns out, computers continue to get ...   more »
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