Rick Anderson, a long-time CIRA director, appears this week on TVO's Search Engine to respond to recent criticisms of the dot-ca domain authority. Host Jesse Brown asked Anderson to address my recent column focused on CIRA's disappointing performance in the realm of its social mandate. Anderson responded: "Doing things beyond […]
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Clement Says No Legal Block To Using Apple iTunes Gift Cards For Apps
In recent months there have been several reports on consumer frustrations with Applei iTunes gift cards, which in Canada cannot be used for applications or games. Apple's response has been that there are legal reasons for the restrictions. I've never been able to figure out what those might be and […]
Privacy Commissioner Releases Annual PIPEDA Report
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada released her annual report on private sector privacy yesterday. While the media focused on the recommendations on youth privacy, it was interesting to see data showing increasing numbers of reported data breaches. Reported incidents moved from 23 in 2006, to 48 in 2007, to 65 […]
Tracking the Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Heather Morrison tracks the latest growth statistics of open access, including more than 4,000 fully open access peer reviewed journals in DOAJ, 1,500 open access repositories, 30 million scientific publications free online, and 20 percent of the world's medical literature freely available two years after publication.
Yet Another Global Study Finds Canada Lagging on Broadband
Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality. Researchers analyzed approximately 24 million broadband speed test records from Speedtest.net from May to July of this […]
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