News.com.com reports that Apple is opening a retail store in Toronto in 2005, their first in Canada.  There’s no word on other Canadian locations, but it’s a step in the right direction.  I just wish there were one on my side of the continent!

The UK Department of Work and Pensions had computer problems earlier this week leaving many people without access to benefits. It turns out that when they upgraded 7 PC’s from Windows 2000 to Windows XP it caused a BSOD (crash) on 60,000 other PC’s. I’m sure that Microsoft won’t find this amusing as they are currently trying to get people to switch to XP while they work on their next gen OS, Windows Longhorn.

Google has launched a beta of it’s academic paper search engine - scholar.google.com.  Type in a subject and you get back loads of papers… Click the ‘n citations’ link and you get all the papers that cited it.  It’s fantastic.

Originally posted by beelsebob

Aspyr has put up the preliminary system requirements for Doom 3 on it’s website. The most interesting of them is that it will require at least a 1.5Ghz G5. This means that only the iMac G5 and Power Mac G5 can run it, with all apple portables being left out. For more info visit the Aspyr Website.

MLAgazine has posted a brief history of the iPod on their site. It’s an interesting read, so if you want to look at it click the link below