One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 28 January 2004

.< 11:13:33 PM >
EC draft ruling finds Microsoft guilty

Microsoft Corp.'s chances of settling its European antitrust case are fading, as competition officials at the European Commission circulated a draft ruling to colleagues that finds the company guilty of abusing the monopoly power of its Windows operating system, people close to the Commission said Tuesday. [MacCentral]

< 11:11:35 PM >

Apple's Web site home page now prominently features a splash graphic announcing the Pepsi+iTunes music giveaway, which kicks into high gear on February 1st with the airing of a Pepsi ad during Super Bowl XXXVIII. What's more, Apple is providing additional details about Pepsi's campaign. [MacCentral]

< 10:50:23 PM >

Ok, so it's not the most challenging thing in the world. You just scan your CD cover (LP if you're as old as me) and bam! you've got your favourite artwork right there in iTunes. But I'm a lazy software guy (it's an advantage, honestly) so when I got Sofa on the latest MacAddict CD I was hooked on letting this neat little tool do the work for me. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]

< 10:20:57 PM >

Ottawa promises inquiry will get to the bottom of Arar case
A full public inquiry has been called into why a Canadian citizen was deported by U.S. officials to Syria, where he was imprisoned for a year. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

An important inquiry but motivated for the wrong reasons. Martin is simply using it to hide the whole issue behind the 'ongoing inquiry' until after the election.

< 10:16:28 PM >

The former chief US weapons inspector says intelligence failures led to reports that Iraq had weapons stockpiles. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 5:40:15 PM >

The CBC introduces its first RSS feed. It's an RSS feed about the CBC, mind you -- top story at this moment is "Speaking Points for Robert Rabinovitch at the World Electronic Media Forum, Geneva, Switzerland." -- but it's a start. [Reinvented News]

< 4:51:57 PM >

Comment:If Mr Blair had written the Hutton report himself it would have looked much like this, writes Simon Hoggart. [Guardian Unlimited]

Extraordinary. There's something odd about this. So many fingers pointed at Blair. Still, there's not doubt the reports were sexed up and that the UK and US have a lot to answer for.