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MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

July 13, 2009

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as our air raid siren’s [...]

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Taking Advantage of U.S. Short-sightedness

September 8, 2007

There’s a hole you could drive a truck through in U.S. economic development  and immigration policy, which represents a substantial competitive advantage for Canada in furthering its own economic development and the growth of its knowledge-based industries.  We are presently in a unique position to exploit that gap in understanding to our own long-term benefit, [...]

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Microsoft iLoo

May 14, 2003

After shipping their April Fool’s Day Joke more than one month late, Microsoft has had to update their April Fool’s Joke with several Service Packs since… Here are details on Version 2.0 -Ian. ——– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030513/ap_on_hi_te/ microsoft_hoax Microsoft: ILoo No Hoax After All Tue May 13, 7:14 PM ET By HELEN JUNG, AP Business Writer SEATTLE [...]

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Microsoft Announces .NET Toilet

May 7, 2003

Apparently, like their software, Microsoft even slipped the ship date on their April Fool’s Day Press Release.. -Ian. ———- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030507/ap_on_hi_te/ internet_toilet Microsoft Plans Toilets With Web Access Wed May 7, 1:03 PM ET Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By The Associated Press SEATTLE – Now on the way: “Surfing on the loo” with [...]

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Goodbye, Concorde

April 10, 2003

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030410/bs_nm/ airlines_concorde_dc British Airways, Air France End Concorde Thu Apr 10, 9:48 AM ET Add Business – Reuters to My Yahoo! By Daniel Morrissey and Noah Barkin LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – The Concorde began its final descent on Thursday as British Airways and Air France said they would stop flying the world’s first and only supersonic [...]

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What You Play With Defines Who You Become

December 27, 2002

from the December 24, 2002 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1224/p17s01-lifp.html Toy Stories *If you want to reduce serious adults to silly smiles, ask about their favorite childhood toy – the one they held onto for years, or perhaps still have. Some toys live long beyond the days of boyhood and girlhood.* *By Ross Atkin * | Staff [...]

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What’s On Your Mind?

November 28, 2002

I’ll tell you what >I< want for Christmas… I want a small arty-looking objet of some sort that displays up-to-the-minute Google search terms from the Live Query feed to use as a paperweight, on my wall, etc. Bonus if it has 802.11 built-in. That’d be cool geek art. -Ian. —– http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28goog.html November 28, 2002 Postcards [...]

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Corporate Responsibility…

November 18, 2002

http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,841411,00.html Company ethics? They’re not our business Today The Observer introduces a new series to monitor one of the crucial issues facing business today. Here Nick Mathiason argues that while marketing departments have been busy adding a green sheen to keep consumers on board, the concept of corporate social responsibility has rarely been paid more [...]

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How Enron Took Care of George Bush…

November 6, 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,834484,00.html Friends in high places When George W Bush arrived in the White House, it was hardly surprising that he looked after Enron – the company had been looking after him for years. In the final extract of his book, Robert Bryce describes how the firm bought its way into Washington’s corridors of power Wednesday [...]

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Dude, Where’s My Job?

October 9, 2002

http://www.fortune.com/ indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id 9746 GENERATION X Generation Wrecked FORTUNE Monday, October 14, 2002 By Noshua Watson Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation’s soul and leave them without a pension plan. Films like Singles and Reality Bites chronicled their transition [...]

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