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    10 changes Steve Ballmer should make at Microsoft 03/07/2008 07:49:02

    When I appeared on CBC Newsworld last week to talk about Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft, they asked me whether I thought the company can survive without him. I tried not to roll my eyes.
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    Unleash your inner artist: Creativity and comp-sci 03/07/2008 10:40:29

    It took a 19th-century English poet to convince Robin Hunicke that her future lay in computer science.
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    Websense to take fear out of Facebook, Web 2.0 18/06/2008 09:11:04

    Websense used the InfoSecurity Canada show to introduce a software-based gateway product aimed at protecting enterprise customers from the dangers of social networking sites and other advanced online services.
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    Facebook offers a primer in effective site redesign planning 27/05/2008 10:20:14

    Drop-down menus. Tabbed browsing. A content management tool. Come on, people: it's not like Facebook is reinventing the wheel here.
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    Gross! A computer cleaner dishes the dirt 23/05/2008 08:41:50

    When a British study recently showed the average computer keyboard is dirtier than a toilet seat, Jacqueline Miller's worst suspicions were confirmed.
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    Barack Obama is the iPhone of politicians 12/05/2008 10:56:23

    I don't know why it took me so long to make the connection. Even for a political figure, Barack Obama generates an extraordinary level of attention, and probably hundreds of news articles a day. He represents (for many people, at least), hope for an enormous change, almost a transformative revolution. And, like Apple's most famous product, you won't find him in Canada.
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    Fifteen years of the Web 02/05/2008 08:37:20

    Without Tim Berners-Lee, we might all be slaves to Gopher by now.
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    AMD offers breathing room with Business Class PC 02/05/2008 11:21:41

    AMD's decision to move into the business PC market this week reminds me of the first line of Shopgirl, a novella by Steve Martin, which points out that working in the glove department at a large retail store means "you are selling things that nobody buys anymore."
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    MIDs, UMPCs and what mobile users really want 04/04/2008 10:20:11

    I guess calling them MIDs is better than calling them unlaptops, or smart nonphones, but not by much.
 
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