Uugh

February 28, 2006

Uugh. See also.

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SCC Nominee Rothstein’s Record on IP and Tech Law

February 27, 2006

Michael Geist has a fascinating piece in the Toronto Star looking at Supreme Court Nominee Justice Rothstein’s judicial record on IP and tech law.

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A Fourth National Wireless Carrier?

February 27, 2006

The Globe reports on rumours that the current telecom policy review may result in the federal government recommending “creating a fourth national wireless carrier. It’s seen as a way for Ottawa to stimulate competition — the percentage of Canadians with cellphone service lags the United States and other countries.”

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Anagram Map Takedown Notice

February 26, 2006

TTC lawyers have sent a takedown notice to Robot Johnny, so he’s replaced the map. I’ve replaced my extract as well. Boing Boing comments here. Incomprehensible. Just incomprehensible.

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Bob Lefsetz Has a Blog

February 25, 2006

Finally. Thanks, Fred.

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Why John C. Dvorak is Wrong About Apple

February 25, 2006

John C. Dvorak’s recent column in PC Magazine speculating that Apple may soon abandon OSX for Windows created a small firestorm of controversy. (You can also hear him explain the theory on TWiT 42 (“Dvorak’s Lost It”) – the sound in the background is Leo Laporte beating Dvorak with a sneaker.) So is Dvorak crazy? […]

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Canadian Library Digitization Project

February 24, 2006

Via LibrarianInBlack, the very cool news that “27 Canadian academic libraries are participating in the Alouette Canada project, a cooperative project with the Open Content Alliance to digitize an estimated three to four million titles.”

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Anagram Map of the Toronto Subway

February 24, 2006

Via Boing Boing, an anagram map of the Toronto subway by Robot Johnny. One of a series of the world’s subways.

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Blogger Journalism – The Rumsfeld Files

February 24, 2006

The conventional wisdom has the mainstream media reporting, editing and writing, and bloggers merely writing. Reporting and editing require resources and more intensive expertise, the argument goes, and cannot generally be done in a bathrobe and bunny slippers. Indeed, Craig Newmark of Craigslist said as much to me in an email after he commented on […]

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A Google Calendar?

February 24, 2006

Hot on the heels of speculation about Google’s hosted email being the prequel to a challenge to MS Office, once again a Google Calendar project is the sasquatch of the online world, with rumoured sightings everywhere, including by Paul Kedrosky (now at least a part-time Google spotter). Except … this is starting to look real. […]

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NTP Pushes Back on Characterization of its Patents as Invalid

February 23, 2006

NTP today seems to have lashed out at RIM’s recent characterizations of its patents as invalid, and is spinning the fact that the recent USPTO rejections are subject to appeal. This debate was tiresome long ago – now it’s merely annoying. All of what both sides are saying may well be true, but it still […]

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MacWorld on MacBook Battery Life

February 23, 2006

MacWorld is running its first benchmarks, which suggest a battery life comparable to the Powerbook G4.

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