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Edmonton bloggers break world record, boost computer literacy

A group of 100 Edmontonians has blogged its way into the Guinness World Records book.

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8 Can't Miss Predictions… for 1998

alphadogg-nw writes “Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he’s right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what’s left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg … and then there’s the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google.”

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Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.

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2010 Olympic competition schedule released

Hockey fans, circle Sunday, February 28th on your calendars. That’s when the men’s gold medal game will be played at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee and VANOC released the …

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Canada’s population tops 33 million

More than 33 million people now live in Canada, according to figures released Wednesday.

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Save the Planet by Surfing the Web, ‘Green’ Websites Promise

A crop of ostensibly environmentally friendly websites promise to reduce your carbon footprint. Their actual impact on the environment is negligible, however.

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