Archive for March, 2006

Beyond Google

The Department of Justice’s subpoena of Google search data generated considerable attention last month with a judge ultimately ordering disclosure of only a fraction of what the U.S. government initally demanded.  At the time, the coverage noted that Google was not the only target with similar requests to AOL, Microsoft, […]

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March 30, 2006 1 comment News

Hart House Lecture Tonight

I am very excited to be delivering the annual Hart House lecture tonight.  While the lecture has sold out, there will be a live webcast along with a future podcast and television broadcast.

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March 30, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Billboard on Pollara Data

Billboard Magazine weighs in on the CRIA/Pollara data with an article (paywall) this week.  After noting my posting and Pollara's response, it concludes that "it does appear that apathy, according to Pollara respondents, and not downloading, might be the Canadian biz's biggest enemy."  

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March 30, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Australia Leads, Canada Dithers in Spam Fight

While Canada dithers in dealing with spam, Australia continues to lead.  Australia has taken an aggressive anti-spam approach and has been rewarded by dropping from the ranks of the country’s most responsible for spam.  Canadian governments have done little to deal with the issue and we consistently find ourselves ranked […]

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March 28, 2006 5 comments News

Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality

Tyler Hamilton of the Toronto Star has an interview with Tim Berners-Lee in which the WWW founder expresses concern about a two-tier Internet.

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March 28, 2006 1 comment News