Opinion

Is an idea really patentable? Or do you actually have to do something with that idea – design it, prototype it, test it and attempt to sell it – for a patent to mean anything? Recently the tech world has been rocked by patent claims, some o

Energy-efficiency measures reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 450 tonnes

Have I got a deal for you The snake oil salesman always arrives in town under a new guise.

Reality checks hurt. On June 2 the RCMP arrested 17 Ontario men and charged them with, among a litany of other offences, participating in a terrorist organization.

There was a time when the computer/tech/video game geek could be pleasantly surprised by something – the announcement of a new product, an upgrade to an existing product, or something you’ve never seen before. The Internet has changed all that.

Right now the Internet service providers of this world are merely the backbone behind the movement to wire everything – they provide the cable, the DSL phone lines, the fiber optic lines, the transmitters, the receivers, the switches and the servers

Copy Cats and pirates Although I realize that imitation is the best form of flattery, and it’s flattering in itself to even be noticed or copied… but in this tiny town of Whistler, business imitation to the extent that is happening to me is

With the announcement last week that Whistler will get a greater portion of the hotel tax – an extra $6 million annually, based on current hotel tax projections – and much of the 300-acre land bank committed to the athletes village site in

May 27 was a "momentous" day for Whistler, Mayor Ken Melamed said Monday as he announced that the provincial government had finally agreed to provide Whistler and 12 other resort communities with more of the hotel tax.

It’s difficult to imagine that the future of a company like Microsoft could rest on a single product, but it’s been about five years since Windows XP first hit the market and that’s a long time in the computing world – a lot has c