As I posted yesterday, NowPublic was chosen by Backbone and KPMG as one of Canada's top new web companies. Here is the write up. "If you’ve heard the term “citizen journalism” it’s because of...
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Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada's defence of its throttling policies. Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high. "The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...
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It's official, the Maoists have taken power in Nepal. The process will now move forward in creating an entirely new government from scratch and abolishing the monarchy. A truly amazing thing to witness."Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal's new governing...
The fishy origin of our fingers and toes"It brings a new meaning to the term fish fingers. Our fingers and toes really did evolve from the fins of ancient fish, a discovery that finally resolves a debate over...
Scott Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems
offered to test the vulnerabilities for potential access of a nuclear
power plant's network via the internet. The plants owner told Lunsford
that...
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"Scientists have described a new primitive dinosaur species, Eocursor parvus, which lived in the Late Triassic - about 210 million years ago.
Unearthed in South Africa's Free State, the creature appears to have been a small, agile plant-eater.
The team tells a Royal Society...
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"After watching the U.K. Sailor news conference on TV this morning, I'm left with a tremendous feeling of speechlessness.
What I observed was, at best, a civilian response to a military situation and the world is...
"This provision would perpetuate the indefinite detention of hundreds of individuals against whom the government has brought no charges and presented no evidence, without any recourse to justice whatsoever. That is un-American, and it is contrary to American interests. ..."
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"AP - Sen. Russ Feingold, a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq."
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According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...
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