The digital revolution and development of the Internet are diverting advertising from Canadian newspapers and other traditional media, the Toronto Star’s parent company, Torstar Corp., said in its submission to the Competition Policy Review Panel.
The panel was created by the federal government last July to review Canada’s competition and foreign takeover and investment policies.
Don’t you love farce? The Internet has a strange appetite for look-alikes of one peculiar website. And no matter how many times they – forgive me – send in the clones, the idea refuses to catch.
You may or may not be familiar with Digg. It’s a very large and very successful site on which people submit pages from around the Web and vote on their favourites. The pages with the most votes get promoted to the front page, where they get even more attention.
Then there are Digg clones. The Web just keeps popping them out. Most promise to do more or less the same thing as Digg, but with slightly different verbiage. Look – here’s another one now! Just this Tuesday, Yahoo coughed up something called “ Buzz.” Instead of “Digging” stories on Digg, readers on Buzz can “Buzz up” the stories they like.
A proposed downtown concert hall in Ottawa hasn’t been able to secure the sponsors it needed to go ahead despite funding from all three levels of government, and a city councillor said she wants to find out why.
“I think that it probably wouldn’t be bad to ask our staff to do a bit of a post-mortem on this to try and get a better idea of how something that … seemed so close just never made it past the finish line,” said Coun. Maria McRae before the Thursday deadline for the concert hall’s backers to find all the funding they needed.
They tried to make me go to Blu-ray, I said no, no, no. And no to Zune, and PlayStation, and BlackBerry, and most other new high-tech gadgets whose gadgetology is invariably overtaken by an even newer high-tech gadget before you’ve even paid the credit card bill.
But I know that not all of you are like me.
I don’t own a dishwasher, for instance, not since the kids grew up and left home. I_don’t have an answering machine, either, because I figure if I’m not home you’ll call back.
REGINA — With federal money in hand, the Saskatchewan Party government is moving forward with plans for a clean coal carbon sequestration demonstration project.
A day after the federal budget earmarked $240 million to the province for the project, Crown Corporations Minister Ken Cheveldayoff and SaskPower president Pat Youzwa announced plans for a seven-year, $1.4 billion project that involves the retrofit of one of SaskPower’s coal-fired power generation units at Boundary Dam near Estevan.
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of its server operating system with great fanfare Wednesday, but analysts said Windows Server 2008 is an incremental update rather than a giant leap forward.
At a Los Angeles event that opened with a speech by former news anchor Tom Brokaw, Microsoft also unveiled a new edition of Visual Studio 2008, used by computer programmers to create desktop and Web applications. The event also promoted a third program, Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 database system, which won’t be available until the third quarter of this year.
Yahoo! is to follow in the footsteps of popular ’social news’ sites like Digg by allowing its users to vote on which stories should appear on the homepage.
While browsing the web, Yahoo! users will be able to send messages to the site when they discover content they like, and Yahoo! will in turn compute the information and update its home page to reflect their tastes.
The announcement of Yahoo! Buzz, which is expected to be launched this week, represents an attempt by Jerry Yang, Yahoo!’s chief executive, to open up the site to third-party publishers and give it the flavour of a social network that draws from collective intelligence of its users.
Some conflicting accounts coming out of the Web-o-sphere on Tuesday about Apple’s revamped MacBook Pro laptops. At the heart of the controversy are reports that the new 15- and 17-inch Pro models have taken a nosedive on battery life, despite the inclusion of allegedly power-saving Intel Penryn processors.
Both Ars Technica and Gizmodo pointed out that Apple’s own numbers on how long the battery should last in a 17-inch MacBook Pro have changed with the new models–going from more than 5 hours to only 4.5 hours.
LOS ANGELES — The Writers Guild of America says members have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new contract with Hollywood studios that increases payment for shows offered on the Internet.
The guild says the deal was endorsed by 93.6 per cent of those who voted in Los Angeles and New York.
OTTAWA AND TORONTO — A former Liberal minister and a former Conservative minister have contradicted Brian Mulroney’s description of events surrounding his 1994 cash payment from lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber at a New York hotel.
The evidence from Allan MacEachen and Elmer MacKay added to the long list of contradictions that hound the former prime minister, who has yet to commit to a second appearance before the House ethics committee on Thursday.
Mr. Mulroney is expected to announce his decision Tuesday or Wednesday. Meanwhile, his spokesmen released arguments Monday against the eventual creation of a “costly” public inquiry into his dealings with Mr. Schreiber.
|
Recent Comments