Green profits: cleantech that works. A look at life in 2020. And business travel: What's in your laptop bag?
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In a year marked by the warmest and driest winter on Environment Canada’s records, it’s not difficult to see why Canada’s cleantech sector is churning out innovative solutions to today’s environmental crises. While the sector...
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International travel was on our minds in April, because we couldn’t. Not by air, anyway. Ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano caused airlines to ground the planes that normally fly through the affected air corridors. At time of...
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Spread across the country is a community of people who aren’t impressed with the fuel economy of today’s most efficient hybrids. Fuel-sipping Smart cars are a good start, but who wants to sacrifice back seats and suitable storage room...
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Internet gambling may be rising in popularity, but it’s still against the law unless operated by a provincial or state body. Yet Canadian and American gamblers either don’t know it’s illegal or have simply decided to ignore that...
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Canadian companies may be talking the talk on green, but their chief financial officers (CFOs) can’t find the additional funds needed to walk the walk, according to a survey from Robert Half Management Resources. CFOs were asked if they expect...
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What did you do last week? If you’re an average online Canadian, Ipsos Reid says you spent 18.1 hours on the ’net and 16.9 hours watching TV. Your Internet usage is up from 14.9 hours last year. This is the first time the Web has trumped...
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Vancouver delivered a big medal count for Canada and big numbers on almost every other measure as well. According to the Vancouver Organizing Committee, 615 medals were awarded among 2,632 registered athletes. The worldwide television audience was...
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Bringam Young University has found that giving away an e-book title tends to boost sales of the same title in print. University researchers tracked the success of 41 print books before and after the release of the title as a free e-book. While the...
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Overall Q4 2009 Canadian client PC unit volume rose 8.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to IDC. Portable PCs performed slightly better than was forecasted, growing 28.1 per cent year over year. “The strength of the...
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A recent study concluded that technology executives are ready to commit funding for projects stalled by the economic downturn. Nearly one-third of CIOs said they plan to implement software and hardware upgrades, others will go with virtualization...
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North America contains just five per cent of the world’s population, yet we consume 33 per cent of the world’s resources. If every person on the planet consumed as much as us, we would require at least four more planets to feed the demand...
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Flights and destinations may change, get cancelled or diverted, but road warriors know they can rely on their laptop bags to be there and ready for business. These ubiquitous “go bags” come in all shapes and sizes, and carry all kinds of...
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Ten years is a long time in technology, and the pace of development is getting faster. In a decade, it will affect our daily lives in innovative and exciting ways on both a personal and a professional basis. See how our fictional character, Sheila...
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While business owners, employees and consumers continue to seek ways to do right by their customers, families and the environment, they are doing so with an eye on the bottom line. Fortunately, there are countless opportunities to simultaneously...
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Most of us want to be good people, and reducing power use at work is one way to achieve that. But being a good person can also be a hassle, and we’re all busy. Experts, however, say it can be fairly easy to reduce office use of electricity. The...
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