Jan 15th, 2008 by Christopher Mercer in Uncategorized
… is the slogan for this years MacWorld Keynote from Steve Jobs. While everyone is speculating about a ultrathin portable and other gadget goodness I am thinking that it could be something different. Is it possible we will see WiMAX (the new wireless standard being pushed by Intel) integrated into Mac Products? [...]
Jan 14th, 2008 by Christopher Mercer in Academics, Digital Life
Today’s article by Dr. Geist in the Toronto Star discusses the lack of participation of Canadian Universities in the Open Courseware initiative. Originally started by MIT – which, as Dr. Geist points out, offers about 1800 courses freely – has spawned into the Open Courseware Consortium featuring universities from China, USA, South Africa, [...]
Jan 13th, 2008 by Christopher Mercer in Copyright, Digital Rights, Law, Policy, Politics, Social Networking
Well the Christmas season has come and gone. Like many people, our parliamentarians are back to the grindstone in just a few weeks, and while most of us have been working at our respective jobs since the start of the year, our MP’s have been preparing for what will be the next round in [...]
