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MONTREAL - In something of a coup, Montreal was chosen to host the 18th World Congress on Information Technology in 2012, beating out the United States, which had expected to be the host.
MONTREAL - A seemingly mundane technical announcement yesterday (June 23) has great implications for the way Montrealers watch television.
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MITCH JOEL
Television at the crossroads: core business model might be a thing of the past
While everybody is busy running over to their favourite consumer electronics store to pick up a 3-D television (btw, is it just me or do those glasses make all of us look like the love child of Karl Lagerfeld and Roy Orbison?), it seems like the television industry -much like all of the traditional media channels -also struggles to define its place with viewers while grappling with a future of digitization, media fragmentation and uncertainty.
JAY BRYAN
Skills squeeze is around the corner
While unemployment is dropping, it's still a big preoccupation, a fact underlined yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which warned that governments mustn't take their focus off joblessness just because there's a recovery.
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All those bucks inflate Chinese real estate bubble
On June 19th China's central bank, called The People's Bank of China, announced that it will "increase the renminbi's "exchange-rate flexibility", meaning that the U.S. dollar cost of buying Chinese money (also termed "yuan") might go up. And so everything that the West buys from China, ranging from comput
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In defence of taxes
Widely held perception that giving money to the government in the way of taxation is tantamount to wasting money
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Playing the soccer market
Don't bet the farm on it, but there could be some money to be made in designing an investment portfolio around the World Cup
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One device to rule them all
Seductive beauty Apple's iPhone offers a glimpse into what the future world of connectivity and communications will look like;
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Bubble popped, but Canada never joined the party
The Economist magazine's May 29 edition cover story's title was Fear Returns: How to avoid a double dip recession. Wall St. Journal headlines on May 29 and June 4 proclaimed Dow's Worst May Since 1940 and Global Bank Pact Advances. The news stories are linked.
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Ten years of selling on eBay: Q&A
The Gazette sits down with Orlena Lee, content manager for eBay Canada.
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Drivers must share blame for oil disaster
In the early days of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster, British Petroleum, stated unequivocally that it would take full responsibility for the disaster, the costs of cleanup and all legitimate claims. How it will play out for BP remains to be seen, but patience with BP from all quarters is wearing thin.
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Observer Extra
William Watson: What crisis of productivity?
It should be pretty obvious that if we want a vibrant economy for the long ...
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Truth in advertising? Get real
There’s real truth in the saying “Don’t believe everything you read.” That ...
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Is it time to cut BP some slack?
U.S. Republican Congressman Joe Barton apologized yesterday during the congressional...
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Legal Corner
Social media have lawyers all atwitter
By nature, the marketing and legal departments of companies are a little bit...
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Workplace romance: A touchy subject
Recently, Canadian Forces Brigadier General Daniel Ménard made headlines when...
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Allison Lampert
Shmall history
The Consumers Distributing store at the Cavendish Mall in 1996 during a close-out sale. Photo: Dave...
Inc. InkAllison Lampert
Shmemories
I rarely visit the Cavendish Mall, which is why it was quite the surprise to pass by recently, for the...
Inc. InkJason Magder
Free iPads in U.S. universities a waste
The U.S. university system has slightly more money than its Canadian counterpart, but the offer to...
TechnoCitéReader's Forum
Re: Aerospace merger
ou wrote this article within the context of Aeromart Montreal 2010, an extremely successful global aerospace event which takes place every two years in Montreal, and attracts over 500 companies from more than 20 countries. On this occasion, I gave participants a broad overview presentation of the challenges and opportunities for our Québec SMEs. In the margins of this event, you and I had an impromptu 30-minute personal discussion about these issues, and it gave me pleasure to inform you about the NSE-Automatech merger on which you reported.But I should like to challenge a number of statements that you also made in this article. Yo
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