252:. The Toronto Star is a big newspaper in Toronto, with higher circulation (but less prestige) than The Globe and Mail. CRN Australia is or was Computer Reseller News, a magazine for computer dealers. Both are reliable sources, and the mentions are more than trivial. And student newspapers are also usually reliable sources, in my experience.
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