SCI-TECH-Notes.htm clips from media

Did you Know: you could highlight just what you need to print, then when you go to 'File' and 'Print,' put a dot in the circle next to 'Selection' and it will only print the part you highlighted. We might also take note for Internet Explorer's printing options for pages which are in frames. Flip to the Print dialog's "Options" tab; there you'll see "is laid out on the screen," "only the selected frame," and "all frames individually." Heck, you can even "print all linked documents" or just a "table of links." I just hope your printer is up for it! thanks to www.lockergnome.com

Rid Ads The best of the bunch I've tried is WebWasher.com, originally a product of German electronics giant Siemens. It's a very powerful tool, if a bit confusing to install, especially if you have more than one browser installed. But once you delve into the instructions and get the program up and running, it is easy to use and gives browsing speeds a noticeable boost.
The software claims it can sift out up to 45 per cent of the useless data you'd normally download from Web sites. Besides ads, it filters out "pop-up windows," those time-wasting boxes that jump out at users with ads, surveys and promotions. Animated ads can also be stopped in their tracks, as can cookies, "Web bugs" and referrers,[ - Referrers are small pieces of information that tell Web sites the address of the previous page the user was on. ] three techniques used to track Internet users. With a click of a mouse button users can temporarily deactivate WebWasher, ...available: a pared-down free one, a $15 U.S. one that's free for 14 days, and a premium $30 version

Guidescope, which is free for consumers, said it has tested the opening pages of the Web's 50 most popular sites. Most downloaded about 1.5 times faster with Guidescope, it claims, while sites laden down with ads saw a three-fold speed boost.
- WebWasher: www.webwasher.com , - AdSubtract: www.adsubtract.com , - Guidescope: www.guidescope.com

2001

Sunday Dec 30, 2001
Internet grew and grew in 2001 but is still a capricious child The Internet's turbulent infancy is over - but here come the growing pains. The fallout of 2000's spectacular dot-com crash continued in 2001, but the popularity of the Internet soared ever onward all year notwithstanding.
In Canada, more and more took to the Web for their edification, shopping and entertainment - 51 per cent of households were online as the year opened, Statistics Canada reported, up nine per cent over the previous year.

A sign in Toronto's financial district shows the closing numbers of the Toronto Stock Exchange in February 2001. Canada's biggest stock market tumbled nearly 600 points and couldn't handle the volume of sell orders Friday after Nortel Networks slashed its earnings forecast and said it will cut 10,000 jobs this year. The dot-com boom was a distant memory as 2001 began, and it was infrastructure's turn to take a beating.

Sunday Dec 30, 2001
Why 3x5=15 is a miracle of modern technology
U.S. researchers report the most complex quantum computation ever performed... These can point in only two directions, "up" and "down," because of a quantum property called "spin."
A single nucleus can, therefore, act as a qubit, its spin pointing perhaps up for "off" and down for "on." A given spin lasts a relatively long time and can be manipulated with nuclear magnetic resonance, a technique used by chemists for years.

Dec 24, 2001
UN to map green energy sites bbc

The UN Environment Programme is studying the wind and solar energy potential of 13 developing countries.

Tuesday Dec 18, 2001
MOUSE MODIFIED TO PRODUCE VACCINE IN ITS MILK cp

Scientists may have found an alternative to mass-producing vaccines in manufacturing plants: transgenic mice that secrete the drug in their milk.

Tuesday Dec 18, 2001
HUMANS CAN PASS INFECTIONS TO PETS cp

Scientists used to worry about the spread of nasty germs from animals to people. New evidence suggests the opposite can also happen: pets can catch bad things from their human companions.

Monday Dec 10, 2001
SONIC FLASHLIGHT SHOWS 3-D IMAGE OF BODY cp

A biomedical engineer has invented a "sonic flashlight" that merges a translucent image of a person's skin with the inner anatomy image of an ultrasound.
December 6, 2001
The heart of the matter economist

In silico biology: Better tools, and more data, mean that creating virtual organs by computer is no longer a pipe- dream. How will this help the drug industry?

Tuesday Dec 4, 2001Candy is dandy, but spray'll be quicker
Imagine an easy-to-use, fast-acting drug that can turn you on in a matter of minutes - or, more important, turn your partner on - without benefit of low lights, soft music and chocolate.
That's the promise of a new sex drug, being tested in nasal-spray form on rats at Concordia University, that targets what is often described as our biggest sex organ: the brain.
The drug is called PT-141, a synthetic copy of a neuropeptide that stimulates sexual-response centres in the melanocortin receptors of the hypothalamus region, deep in the brain. ...PT-141 might actually help trigger sexual desire in men and women alike

Dec 3, 2001 Candy is dandy, but spray'll be quicker ap

The Segway Human Transporter has gyroscopes to keep it upright and a sensitive steering mechanism that starts the scooter moving when its rider leans forward. Kamen holds over 100 patents.
The machine has a top speed of 19 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour), and one charge of its battery holds enough juice for a 24-km (15-mile) trip. ...US National Parks have reportedly agreed to buy many heavy-duty models for $8,000 (£5,609) each. "Cars are great for going long distances. But it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-pound piece of metal to haul their 150-pound asses around town."

Sunday, December 09, 2001 Marconi's magnificent achievement at Signal Hill: hype Newfoundland style The lawyer handed Marconi a letter threatening a lawsuit and demanding immediate removal of all experimental "appliances" from the colony.
The man behind the letter was the local superintendent of the Anglo-American Telegraph Co. The company's executives, who held a monopoly on all transatlantic telegraph cables, knew killer competition when they saw it.
On Dec. 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first transAtlantic wireless message. He could not prove his success until February, 1902, when he received a message from more than 1,600 kilometres away while aboard SS Philadelphia. The ship's captain verified the transmission."

Thursday Nov 29, 2001
TV LOSES VIEWING TIME TO INTERNET: POLL

The more people use the Internet, less television they watch, say researchers who surveyed 2,000 households in the US.

Thursday Nov 29, 2001
LASERS TRACK LOBSTERS' SENSE OF SMELL

Lobsters smell by flicking their antennae and sampling the chemical trails in the surrounding water, scientists have found.

Thursday Nov 22, 2001 Cogeco Cable intends to make the development of high-speed Internet services, video-on-demand and interactive television a priority.
Cogeco president Louis Audet indicated Thursday morning that 70 per cent of North-American homes with high-speed Internet connections use cable.
He said that tests will be made this winter for video-on-demand and interactive-television services which could potentially be available next summer.
Audet forecast that his company could have close to 148,000 high-speed Internet subscribers by next August. At the moment, they have 108,000 subscribers

Nov 8, 2001
SHIGH DOSE OF PAIN RELIEVER STOPS PLAQUES: STUDY

Researchers have found that high doses of certain pain relievers can prevent brain plaques, thought to be the root cause of Alzheimer's disease, in mice and in human tissue. see W-N ALZHEIMER page

Nov 7, 2001
SPERM SHAPE, NOT NUMBER, BEST INDICATOR OF FERTILITY: STUDY

A survey of nearly 1,500 American men shows that low sperm count does not always lead to infertility. Sperm shape and appearance are more reliable for determining fertility, say the authors of the study.

Nov 3, 2001
WHAT YOUR BRAIN DOES WHILE YOU SLEEP

Scientists are debating the role of sleep in organizing thoughts and memories, with two research papers in the same scientific journal reaching opposite conclusions this week.

1/Nov/2001 Microsoft (US;MSFT - $58.15) Recommendation: Strong Buy Target: $100.00 Tentative Agreement with DOJ Yesterday, Microsoft and the Department of Justice reached a tentative agreement on its antitrust cast that is yet to be officially signed and formalized. The announcement is a positive although there remains the option for the States to pursue the trial if they aren't satisified with the terms of the agreement accepted by the DOJ. Three positive implications can be taken from this announcement: i) No revenue impact on MSFT's business operations ii) Consensus regarded the settlement as highly unlikely iii) Significantly lowers litigation risks going forward. The Terms of the Agreement although not formally disclosed and signed by MSFT/DOJ appear to be i) MSFT will be required to continue selling older versions of windows (98/NT) for the next four years thereby appearing to diminish increased upgrade activity ii) MSFT will be required to disclose an unspecified amount of "technical information" and not delay granting it to other technology vendors (prior example: Netscape) thereby easing integration of competitive functionality on the windows platform and not being able to further leverage its Desktop dominance iii) MSFT will provide original equipment manufacturers' greater flexibility to display/add non-Microsoft competitive programs (example: web-browser, IM, Media players) on the windows platform as well as provide consumers the option to remove any MSFT programs integrated in the OS. We believe the terms of the agreement would have a minimal impact on MSFT's business operations because i) MSFT enjoys flexibility on providing product support ii) Our growth assumptions are not predicated around MSFT having a "technical information" advantage iii) Windows & MSFT programs (IM, browser, media player etc.) are the "defacto" standards in the market that are "functionally competitive" and "free of cost" Reiterating STRONG BUY rating & $100 price target. June 2002 estimate $1.81; June 2003 estimate $2.04. see CPU News for More

Re Windows XP 26/Oct/2001 13:59
I don't think I'll be jumping on the XP bandwagon anytime soon. The WPA (product activation procedure) and the force-feeding of MS Passport sort of keeps my excitement level at bay.
I'd be much more interested in trying 2000 now that it's stable and proven...
Norbert Wienholz Advisor to W-N For more on MS XP "Should you update?

What is true is that Windows XP does appear to be a significant step forward, particularly if you're running Windows 98 or Windows Me. If you're a Windows 2000 users, it's not as major a step, unless you want the additional features or better game compatibility. www.extremetech.com/

Thursday, October 18, 2001
Finland takes over from U.S. as most competitive nation; Canada ranks third 1. Finland (6) 2. United States (1) 3. Canada (7) 4. Singapore (2)

Mon Oct 1 2001 BALLARD POWER PLANS 'LANDMARK' FUEL CELL ANNOUNCEMENT
Trading in Ballard Power shares was halted late Monday on the TSE, as the fuel cell developer announced a "landmark agreement" with DaimlerChrysler and Ford Motor Co.

Fri 9/21/01 JAPANESE INVENTORS PRODUCE STRONG, STRETCHY CERAMIC
Ceramic pottery is often marked fragile because it's so brittle. Now Japanese researchers have invented a "superplastic" ceramic that can be stretched to 10 times its length and still keep its shape
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/09/20/ceramic_stretchy010920

from The Wall Street Journal SEPT. 6, 2001
The Justice Department said it won't seek a court-ordered breakup of software giant Microsoft. The department also said it won't pursue the so-called bundling issue in its protracted antitrust suit.

Fri 8/31/01 SEAL PUPS HAVE GOOD EARS
According to French researchers, baby seals are able to recognize their mother's voice as early as two days after birth. A skill that comes in handy when they're looking for a snack in a herd of hundreds.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/08/30/seal010830

Wed 8/8/01 7:00 PM LOOK INTO MY EYES - AND LET ME IN Researchers in England say eyeballs could one day replace keys and personal identification numbers as a means of accessing things.
[What when your eye or thumb is compermised. IE the code produced is copied!? DTN]
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/08/08/iris010808

Mon 8/6/01
SNC-LAVALIN, COGECO CABLE TEAM ON BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT
Engineering firm SNC-Lavalin International Inc. and Cogeco Cable said Monday they are teaming up to develop broadband distribution networks around the globe.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/08/06/cogeco_010806

21/Aug/2001 NEW GAME HELPS DYSLEXICS
Finnish psychologists have created a new computer game designed to help dyslexics. The researchers say the game improves reading ability by training a specific part of the brain.

Tue 8/14/01 Cell gets big speed boost By: VITO PILIECI Ottawa Citizen
At the end of this month, cellular- phone companies across the country will be kicking it up a notch by making their transmission speeds five times faster, finally providing the wireless Internet the public has been dreaming of.
The new infrastructure and increased speeds, made possible by next-generation cellular networks, allows consumers to check in electronically at a hotel, exchange digital pictures and stream movies and music from the palm of their hands.

Tue 8/14/01 Microcell revenue soars
By: MARY LAMEY Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s strategy of spending to acquire subscribers bore fruit during the second quarter as the wireless-phone company reported a 36-per-cent increase in revenue yesterday.
Microcell, the smallest of Canada's wireless personal communications service providers, known as PCS providers, is best known for its Fido brand name.

Tue 8/14/01 Scrapped PCs are recycling gold mine
By: MARK HEINZL Wall Street Journal There's gold in them thar PCs.
And copper, silver, platinum and palladium, metals that are increasingly being recycled from discarded computer and electronic gear and sold in metals markets around the world.

Wed 8/1/01 6:57 AM CGI's gains bump up stock By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN
A 22.2-per-cent jump in third-quarter revenues at Montreal-based CGI Group Inc. - and a doubling in per-share profits for the three months - garnered a modest thumbs up from investors yesterday.
CGI shares added 24 cents to close at $8.77 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on word that profits for the three months ended June 30 jumped to $17.3 million, or 6 cents a share, from the year-earlier $6.9 million, or 3 cents.

ue 7/31/01 6:57 AM Fibreoptic jobs planned By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN
ONI Systems Corp., a U.S. optical-networking company that's actually growing amid turmoil and cutbacks across much of the telecommunications industry, has quietly chosen Montreal for its third research-and-development centre.
The company expects to create a total of 50 local jobs in the next year, ONI executive Rusty Cumpston told reporters yesterday. It's possible that more than 100 people will work at the firm's Montreal lightwave design centre by 2003, he added, depending on industry trends and how the company evolves.

7/31/01 6:57 AM Canada fights worm attack By: MIKE BLANCHFIELD Ottawa Citizen
Canada joined the world yesterday in an unprecedented effort to prevent the chameleon-like Code Red worm from crippling the Internet.
"We're taking the action because globally the Internet is an important source for E-commerce. If its viability is compromised, not just Canada but the whole world has got a big problem," said Max London, spokesman for the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness.

Thu 7/19/01 7:00 PM Hacker's arrest protested
By: HIAWATHA BRAY Boston Globe; New York Times
Outraged Americans are leaping to the defence of a Russian computer-programmer who was arrested in Las Vegas on Monday. His crime, the FBI says, was producing software that allows unlimited copying of electronic books.
Dmitry Sklyarov, a 27-year-old father of two, is the first person to face prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, known as the DMCA. The controversial DMCA makes it a crime to write software that circumvents data-security systems.

Thu 7/19/01 7:00 PM Nortel loss boggling
By: ANDY RIGA Troubled Nortel Networks Corp. yesterday posted the largest quarterly loss in Canadian corporate history - a whopping $19.4 billion U.S. - and said it doesn't expect things to pick up until "well into the second half of 2002." That second-quarter loss is $200 million U.S. more than the company predicted in a June earnings warning, its third in what has turned out to be a dismal year for the once-high-flying maker of telecommunications equipment.

Thu 7/19/01 7:00 PM Network grows
Struggling Teleglobe Inc. is spending $56 million U.S. to expand its high-speed telecommunications network in Europe, putting the final touches on the company's worldwide fibreoptic network, GlobeSystem.
The deal - to purchase existing fibreoptic capacity from Dutch telecom company KPNQwest NV - gives Teleglobe access to German, Scandinavian, east European and Swiss routes connecting 24 major cities.

Thu 7/19/01 7:00 PMMicrosoft issues warning
By: JONATHAN KRIM Washington Post; Bloomberg News
Microsoft Corp. offered little comfort to the troubled technology sector yesterday as it warned that the coming quarter would probably produce lower revenue and earnings than previously forecast.
The company said it expects revenue over the three-month period ending in September to fall from last quarter's $6.58 billion to between $6 billion and $6.2 billion.

Thu 7/19/01 2:29 PM How It Works: Internet Telephone Calls For most of the last century "the phone company" was a source of much consumer frustration. These days, however, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can try to do better, by placing calls over the Web. In Internet Protocol telephony, a call is sliced, diced and delivered via many routes. See how it works. www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HOWW.html?rd=hcmcp?p=03Kzl03K_1477GC012000mC8ruC99H

Thu 7/19/01 2:29 PM A ringing defence If Bell Canada has its way, rotary phones will be history come Aug. 1. Some will survive as museum pieces, most will go to the scrap heap. None will be connected any more to anything but the memory of a bygone day when dialing perhaps took longer than today's touch-tone system, but you could be sure if the phone was answered that a human being would be on the other end of the line.
Some people still prefer it that way, namely the nearly 300,000 Bell Canada subscribers in Quebec and Ontario who have retained their dial phones. Ma Bell has decided that they are now few enough - barely 5 per cent of the company's residential subscribers - to apply for leave from the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission to cut them off altogether.

Sat 7/14/01 8:27 AMDialing for deals By: MICHAEL PETROU Ottawa Citizen
A Canadian expatriate in London is changing the way the British shop.
Bill Green is the founder and chief executive officer of Zag-Me Ltd., a wireless-content company that sends digital discount coupons to cellular-phone users in shopping malls

Fri 7/13/01 7:00 PM TICK TOCK - NEW ATOMIC CLOCK
Researchers have developed an atomic clock that keeps even better time than the microwave atomic clocks currently in use.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/13/clock010713
time check EST

Thu 7/12/01 7:00 PM RESEARCHERS CREATE EMBRYOS FOR STEM CELL HARVEST
Scientists in Virginia have become the first researchers to create human embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting their stem cells.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/11/embryo010711

Wed 7/11/01 7:00 PM RESEARCHERS CREATE EMBRYOS FOR STEM CELL HARVEST
Scientists in Virginia have become the first researchers to create human embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting their stem cells.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/11/embryo010711

Fri 7/6/01 7:28 AM Intasys buys rest of Mamma.com, stays on Nasdaq
By: ANDY RIGA
Intasys Corp., a struggling high-technology holding company, has bought the 32 per cent of Montreal-based Internet search engine cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/04/sperm_sexing010704 Mamma.com that it doesn't already own, The Gazette has learned.
Intasys officials wouldn't comment yesterday.

Wed 7/4/01 7:00 PM 'SEX SORTER' COULD PRODUCE MORE DAUGHTERS
A team of American scientists has developed a technique to separate female sperm from male ones before conception. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/04/sperm_sexing010704

Wed 6/13/01 7:00 PM TECHNOLOGY COULD EXTEND CELL PHONE COVERAGE A new system of portable relay stations could help cellular phone users cope with "hot spots" that arise when cell traffic becomes congested. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/06/13/cellphone_relays010613

Sat 6/9/01 8:59 AM Teleglobe boosts capacity in U.S. By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN, DAVID PADDON
Teleglobe unveiled yesterday its most significant expansion since BCE Inc. of Montreal took it over last fall - three separate fibreoptic-purchase pacts in the United States worth up to $350 million U.S.
The deals will triple the capacity of the company's fibreoptic network across the U.S., but drew withering fire from one investment analyst. The expanded network will connect another 50 American cities with wire rated at 10 gigabits per second, the highest speed commercially available. It will connect 63 of the 100 biggest U.S. cities, compared with only 13 at present, Teleglobe official David Thompson said.

More Than a Palmtop, Not Quite a PC
Now computer and consumer electronics makers, including major manufacturers like Sony and Siemens, are unleashing a new class of lightweight home devices that try to tackle the portability problem. Loosely called Web pads or Web tablets, these Internet-linked devices are designed to perform much the same functions, though they vary in how they do it. A few Web pads are already on the market, while others will be available later this year and next. www.nytimes.com/2001/05/17/technology/17TABL.html

Fri May 25 2001 SUPER-FAST JET SET FOR JUNE LAUNCH NASA's Mach 10 X-43A scramjet is the world's fastest plane. It's designed to accelerate to Mach 7 and Mach 10 - seven to 10 times the speed of sound.

Tue 5/15/01 6:59 AM Battery project charges ahead By: SHEILA McGOVERN The Gazette
Hydro-Quebec and a major U.S. chemical company have joined forces to begin manufacturing a battery they insist could reduce demand for new energy plants and power an electric car.
Hydro and Kerr-McGee Chemical of Oklahoma will spend $340 million between now and 2003 to build their first plant in Boucherville, hire 170 people and begin producing backup batteries for the communications industry - telephone, cable-television and Internet companies that have to keep their systems operating during power failures.

Tue 5/15/01 6:59 AM IBM Net hosting centre sets up shop in Montreal
IBM announced the opening of a $17-million Internet hosting centre in Montreal yesterday that's aimed at small and medium-size businesses.
It is the second such centre in Canada, after one in Toronto, and the 37th worldwide for the company.

Fri 5/11/01 7:04 AM Microcell cash crunch By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN The Gazette
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. needs to borrow at least another $200 million by this time next year - but the nervous financial markets aren't likely to bite on any fresh debt for Canada's No. 4 cell-phone-network operator until next fall at the earliest, chairman Charles Sirois said yesterday. The company, which now has 978,866 Fido subscribers, wants to offer a more complete range of services nationally to overtake such deep-pocketed rivals as BCE Inc., Telus Corp. and the Rogers-AT&T empire.

26/Apr/2001 22:34 Small steps taken in space for mankind
By: BRIAN KAPPLER The philosopher Francis Bacon, who died in 1626, identified three great technological advances as the pride of humankind in his time: the printing press, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. Experimental science, he believed, was a precious tool which permitted people to expand their understanding of the world.
Not quite 400 years later, we're using experimental science to expand our understanding beyond this one little world.

Fri 4/20/01 8:00 AM Engineer completes full circle
By: KRISTIN GOFF Ottawa Citizen
Don Smith, who first went to work for technology magnate Terry Matthews at Mitel a quarter-century ago, has come full circle.
He started as an engineer around 1975 at the company Matthews co-founded two years earlier.

Mon 4/16/01 7:00 PM TECHNOLOGY COULD BOOST POWER OF COMPUTER CHIPS
A new technology could squeeze even more circuits onto silicon computer chips. If the technology makes a successful jump from lab to laptop, future computers could be 10 times more powerful than today's fastest chips.

March 2001

30/Mar/2001 2000 was great year for venture capital By: ANDY RIGA Quebec high-tech and biotech companies landed seven of the 50 largest venture-capital deals in Canada last year, says a report to be made public today.
The survey was conducted by Macdonald & Associates, a Toronto company that tracks Canada's venture-capital industry, for National Post Business magazine. Results are in the publication's April issue.

Wed 3/28/01 7:00 PM WHY LOCUSTS FOLLOW THE CROWD Researchers say they've found the biological trigger that causes locusts to swarm. Apparently, a little tickle on a certain region of the insect's leg is enough to set them off to find some friends.

Wed 3/28/01 8:01 AM Ericsson eliminating 3,300 jobs By: KIM GAMEL AP LM Ericsson is eliminating 3,300 jobs, or 3 per cent of the wireless-technology company's work force, in response to weakening economic conditions that have already forced sweeping cutbacks at rival Motorola.
In Montreal, where most of Ericsson's 2,300 Canadian employees are headquartered, the cutbacks mean an immediate hiring freeze, but no layoffs.

Wed 3/28/01 8:01 AM Virtual chameleon By: SHEILA McGOVERN The Gazette Virtual Prototypes Inc. isn't the company it was a year ago, so it might as well change its name. The Montreal-based high-tech firm will now be known as eNGENUITY Technologies, reflecting its change from a supplier to the military and aerospace industries, to a player in the automotive, transportation, telecommunications and medical-instrumentation sectors.

Thursday 22 March 2001 Mobile speed-dialers By: HANS GREIMEL AP
Cell-phone leader Nokia and electronics giant Siemens both introduced new mobile phones at the CeBIT tech-trade show yesterday that transmit data up to four times as quickly as current models, offering users quicker access to the Internet while they wait for new-generation phones to arrive. Using a technology called GPRS, or General Packet Radio Service, the new phones can transmit signals at two to four times the current speed.

Wed 3/21/01 10:02 AM Two turtles stay ahead By: ANDY RIGA Despite the stock-market slump and the retrenching among venture capitalists, some Montreal-based Internet-related firms are still confidently talking expansion and expecting to raise venture capital by mid-year.
Take a couple of private companies with go-slow, conservative approaches to targeting the wireless-data market.

Tuesday 20 March 2001 Offshore haven for Napster clones?
By: PETER DIEKMEYER
How would you like to have a partner that grabs the lion's share of your profits, contributes little to the operation of your business, and hinders progress by burdening employees with redundant rules and paperwork? Most business-owners already have just such a partner: government.
Despite the fact that the taxes and regulations that Canadian businesses are subject to have been drifting downward, it is not happening nearly fast enough. ..Sealand is located on an abandoned anti-aircraft platform set up in the North Sea, just off the English coast. In 1967, the structure was occupied by Roy Bates, ..HavenCo. was set up specifically to protect companies like offshore banks, and gaming operations from a variety of legal challenges. If the company allows a Napster clone to set up operations there, we'll find out soon enough whether that anti-aircraft platform is set up on solid ground.

Mon 3/19/01 7:00 PM GIVING SIGHT PROBLEMS A LICKIN' People with vision problems may get a taste of what it's like to see - literally. A device being developed in the U.S. allows users to see with their tongues.
: cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/16/sight010316

Sat 3/17/01 8:01 AM Well, dot's dot for josh.com. Period.
By: JOSH FREED
Dear shareholders: Last year, in the midst of a rising stock-market frenzy, I asked you to invest in an exciting new venture I was launching: josh.com, a cutting-edge product with nowhere to go but up.
At least, that's how it seemed at the time, when every tiny company with a dot in its name was the future Micro-soft.
: W-N JFreed-Menu.htm

Washington Post Sat 3/17/01 Diary of a dot-com casualty I strode confidently into the cookie-cutter office building in the Washington suburbs, ready to conquer the New Economy and pocket my share of that promised IPO.
When I told my colleagues and friends that I was chucking a good job and a decent wage for a below-market salary at an Internet startup, no one said, "Kevin, you're nuts." On the contrary. They gazed at me with envy and muttered something about how they hoped I would remember them when my stock options landed me my first million bucks.

Fri 3/16/01 GIVING SIGHT PROBLEMS A LICKIN' People with vision problems may get a taste of what it's like to see - literally. A device being developed in the U.S. allows users to see with their tongues.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/16/sight010316

Fri 3/16/01 HUDSON BAY IN 2050 COULD BE FREE OF ICE: SCIENTISTS
The ice on Hudson Bay could be gone before the century is half over, say scientists touring the area around Canada's inland sea.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/15/hudson_warm010315

Thu 3/15/01 7:01 AMZero cuts one in 4 jobs
By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN The Gazette A sudden mass layoff, Old Economy style, hit proverbial New Economy high-roller Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. of Montreal yesterday.

Tue 3/13/01 7:00 PM RESEARCHERS ENHANCE MOUSE MEMORIES Some say elephants never forget, and now thanks to a group of American researchers, neither does a new genetically enhanced mouse. By inhibiting production of a key enzyme in the memory pathway, the scientists were able to increase a mouse's ability to remember.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/13/mouse_memory010313

Mon 3/12/01 7:00 PM SCIENTISTS TURN WASTE INTO PAPER Sugar cane waste and eucalypt fibre make a cost-effective, high quality photocopy paper - without trashing the environment. That's according to a group of organic chemists working in India.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/12/cane_paper010312

Sat 3/10/01 7:00 PM SWISS GOV'T SEEKS TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA Switzerland's marijuana prohibition may soon be a thing of the past. The government is recommending that the Swiss parliament legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/10/marijuana010310

Fri 3/9/01 7:00 PM DOCTORS PUSH AHEAD WITH EFFORTS TO CLONE HUMANS Its opponents are calling it "grotesque," its supporters say it may be the last hope for infertile males to pass on their genes. Either way, efforts to clone a human are continuing. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/09/clone_dr010309

Wed 3/7/01 7:02 AM Tell us about your ISP ASAP By: ANDY RIGA
The growth of Internet use in Canada has been nothing short of spectacular over the past few years. And though the adoption rate is slowing, the number of high-speed Internet users is still expected to rise by a stunning 77 per cent in 2001, says high-tech market research firm Yankee Group Canada.
Today, about 4.6 million Canadian households have Internet access, up from 2.2 million two years ago. By yearend, it'll have reached 5.5 million.

Wed 3/7/01 7:00 PM VIRUS PROMISES 'NAKED WIFE'
Another destructive computer virus is making the rounds. Using the subject line "FW: Naked Wife" it's tempted enough users that some 30 organizations are reporting infections. our cpuVIRUSck.htm

Thu 3/8/01 7:02 AM Cellular phone jamming weighed By: ANDY RIGA Obnoxious cellular-phone users, beware: Ottawa is considering legalizing controversial technology that renders phones useless in areas where their use is deemed inappropriate, such as in theatres and restaurants.
Industry Canada will issue a 90-day open invitation to the public tomorrow asking for input on whether and under what conditions the equipment should be licensed, David Warnes, senior adviser for spectrum policy, said in an interview yesterday.

Tue 3/6/01 7:02 AM IPO market tested By: MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen spawned a feeding frenzy for Internet stocks when he brought Netscape Communications Inc. to Wall St. in 1995.
Five and half years later, Andreessen will try to wash away the stock market's distaste for Web-based businesses with the initial public offering of his latest company, Loudcloud Inc.

Tue 3/6/01 7:02 AM Amazon.com rises 26% on Wal-Mart rumour Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose 26 per cent on a report that the biggest Internet retailer may be discussing an alliance with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Seattle-based Amazon.com rose $2.63 yesterday in New York to $12.63. Wal-Mart fell 55 cents to $48.37.

Tue 3/6/01 7:02 AM (438)! New area code looms
By:ANDY RIGA
438: get used to this number, Montrealers. You'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming months, and in 2003 you'll have to start dialing it, too.
In fact, get ready to punch a lot more numbers into your phone.

Tue 3/6/01 7:02 AM Quebecers leap into Net By: KEVIN DOUGHERTY The provincial government says its program to subsidize Internet connections for families is closing the information gap, making Quebec among the most plugged-in places in the world.
From a mere 10 per cent of Quebec households on the Internet in 1997, Quebec attained 45-per-cent penetration by the end of 2000 and is now closing the gap with Canada as a whole, which has a 48-per-cent Internet penetration rate.

Sat 3/3/01 8:32 AM The Volkscomputer By: TONY SMITH AP
Hard disk? Who needs it? Floppy drive? Surplus! Windows? Send to trash! The small transparent-acrylic box in Sergio Vale Campos's office at the Federal University of Minas Gerais has none of those basics, but it is still a computer.

Sat 3/3/01 8:32 AM Napster on ropes By: AP Fighting for its life in court, Napster told a judge yesterday that it will unveil a screening system this weekend that will block users from trading pirated music through its Web site. Lawyer David Boies offered the system in an attempt to keep alive the wildly popular Internet music-swapping service, which is battling the recording industry in a copyright-infringement suit. The system would block users from trading up to a million titles of pirated music.

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Wed 2/28/01 7:02 AM JDS cutting 3,000 jobs
By: DAVID PADDON CP In the latest sign of a high-tech sector slowdown, fibreoptics supplier JDS Uniphase Corp. is cutting 3,000 jobs - more than 10 per cent of its global work force, with the biggest hit at manufacturing operations in Ottawa and San Jose, Calif. About 350 contract workers in Ottawa will be given pink slips immediately, JDS spokeswoman Lori Goulet said yesterday.

Signal Hill
Carolyn Dunn reports for CBC TV
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Sun 2/25/01 7:00 PM MARCONI SIGNALS START OF NFLD. CELEBRATION
The daughter of the father of wireless communication is in Newfoundland this weekend, helping mark the 100th anniversary of a historic transmission.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/24/marconi_010224

Fri 2/23/01 10:12 AM Technology Sector - Waiting for Stability
Given the dramatic price volatility and sharply negative price momentum in the technology sector, we recommend that investors stay on the sidelines until some degree of price stability is restored to the sector. Unlike previous sell-offs in the sector, we believe this time there is a sufficient degree of uncertainty over the near-term outlook for the sector and a lack of consensus regarding earnings visibility that will likely prevent a sharp recovery in share prices over the short-term. As a result, we believe investors can be patient. Our top picks in the technology sector are Nortel Networks (NT-TSE), C-MAC Industries ( CMS-TSE), Celestica Inc. ( CLS-TSE), and JDS Uniphase ( JDU -TSE). We believe an attractive entry point on Nortel would be to buy the stock at 23 times forecast 2001 earnings or roughly $25.00 per share. While more risk-oriented investors may consider purchasing Nortel at higher prices, we believe patience is warranted. - Portfolio Advisory Group

22/Feb/2001 Personal Computers - First Quarter Outlook
We are presently targetting zero growth in PC shipments for the first quarter of 2001. A negative first quarter unit growth rate combined with double digit ASP (average selling price) declines would make it very difficult for PC suppliers to make even reduced first quarter revenue forecasts (Note that PC price data within yesterday's CPI noted prices declined 24.6% in January). Many investors are taking comfort in the fact that there has never been a quarter in which the industry actually experienced negative year over year unit growth rates. This of course doesn't mean it won't happen. In addition to the much discussed, but difficult to quantify, U.S. economic slowdown there are negative desk top secular trends at work. International PC sales remain positive, but fears are increasing that weaker US economic trends will eventually spill over to other regions. Some key statistics include: Desktops still represent 77% of total industry units but only 66% of industry revenues and only 25% of total profits. Our current forecast is for a 3% drop in first quarter desktop unit shipments; if desk tops experience a 10% drop, our overall unit forecat would move to a 5% decline year-over-year and -20% sequentially. Recent industry data shows that U.S. consumer desktop units are the worst performing segment in the industry although International consumer is faring slightly better. Commercial markets appear flat in the U.S. and up low double digits overseas. We are watching the trends both in the U.S. and overseas (where, despite a better overall environment due to the late embracing of European businesses of the internet, etc, has a tendency to eventually follow the U.S.), closely. However, recent comments from Hewlett Packard and Cisco suggest more weakness ahead. A further round of estimate cuts for the PC companies would not be surprising. The only recommendation in the group right now is Dell. However, it is interesting to note that many of these companies are presently trading at one times revenues, levels which have historically coincided with a bottom.

Wed 2/21/01 6:32 AM Quebec eyes medical 'smart card'
By: KEVIN DOUGHERTY The Gazette The Quebec cabinet will consider proposals to track Quebecers' consumption of medical services and pharmaceutical products - a move that would go against the government's initial commitment to keep computerized medical records confidential.
A spokesman for Deputy Premier Bernard Landry, who is likely to be designated as the successor to Lucien Bouchard as Quebec premier next week, said yesterday Landry is willing to look at any measure that will cut the province's health costs. [the 'smart card' is also greatv to hold info on our blood type etc! DTN]

The burning of fossil fuels is blamed for releasing 'greenhouse gases' and global warming
Eve Savory reports for CBC TV
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Sun 2/18/01 8:00 PM RED CROSS GEARING UP FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
The Red Cross in Quebec says it's increased its emergency preparedness and is ready for an increase in natural disasters. ..like flash floods and the ice storm. ..The world's average temperature is expected to rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees over the next 100 years. The panel calls that the greatest transformation since the last Ice Age.
montreal.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/18/climate20010218

Sun 2/18/01 8:00 PM SCIENTISTS SPELL OUT RISKS FROM GLOBAL WARMING
An international panel of scientists says governments and citizens around the world should get prepared for more extreme weather patterns.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/18/climate010218

Wed 2/14/01 7:00 PM NEW GM RULES APPROVED FOR EUROPE
The European parliament has approved proposals to tighten the use of genetically modified, or GM, products in an effort to ease consumer concerns and bring the EU up to speed in biotechnology. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/14/gm_rules010214

Wed 2/14/01 7:24 PM Silicon Valley hiring
By: ANDY RIGA Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc., a fast-growing Montreal Internet-privacy company that has made headlines by raising $37 million U.S. in venture capital since late 1999, named a Silicon Valley executive as its new president and CEO yesterday.
The new top executive, experienced at running large operations that sell software to companies, is being brought in as 4-year-old Zero-Knowledge increases its emphasis on the corporate market.

Wed 2/14/01 7:00 PM WARMER OCEANS COULD LEAD TO MORE STORM SURGES - STUDY
As temperature increases in the world's oceans, coastal storm surges will become an increasing threat to life and property. That's according to an Australian scientist. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/14/ocean_surge010214

Wed 2/21/01 6:32 AM Ballard misses bus
By: WILLIAM BOEI Vancouver Sun; CP Ballard Power Systems admitted yesterday it missed a key goal for 2000 - securing orders for fuel cells for heavy-duty bus engines.
Ballard, which publicly sets annual goals and usually meets them, said it is still waiting for auto maker DaimlerChrysler to order fuel cells for 36 zero-emission buses it has promised to put on the road in 2002 and 2003.

Wed 2/21/01 6:32 AM Music-swappers ready to rock
By: ANDY RIGAThe Gazette Napster's imminent demise is causing a lot of sleepless nights for addicts of the free music-swapping service. With Napster's days numbered thanks to litigious Big Music, bleary-eyed users are tirelessly filling their bulging hard drives with illegal sounds.
Take my friend. We'll call him Bjorn.

13/Feb/2001 Napster told to stop swaps
By: Andrew Flynn CP Millions of Canadians who have been using Napster to get a quick music fix will soon have to look elsewhere following a U.S. court ruling that the music-swapping service must stop trading in copyrighted material.
That's just fine with members of the music community in this country, who consider unregulated file sharing a threat to survival - but it's not good news for fans of free music.

Adrienne Arsenault reports for CBC TV and Radio

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12/Feb/2001 NAPSTER TO CHALLENGE COURT ORDER
A federal appeals court said that Napster must stop trading copyrighted material but will allow the popular music-sharing service to stay in business until a lower court clarifies an injunction against the company. Popular music-swapping service Napster vowed to fight back after a U.S. court ruled the company must stop users from downloading copyrighted material from its site or face charges of infringement. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/12/napster010212

12/Feb/2001 NEAR LANDS ON EROS
NASA has succeeded in landing the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on the surface of the near Earth asteroid, Eros. This is the first time humans have landed a space vehicle on an asteroid. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/12/asteroid_land010212

Sat 2/10/01 8:54 AM German firm buys Memotec By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN The German Kontron group has agreed to take over long-struggling Memotec Communications Inc. of St. Laurent in exchange for Kontron shares with a market value of about $70 million, the two companies announced yesterday. In a word, Kontron Embedded Computers AG, of Munich, is buying the "brainpower" at 175-employee Memotec, particularly the company's software expertise, said Claude

5/Feb/2001 LEAVES DON'T JUST CHANGE COLOUR
Biologists have achieved the botanical equivalent of turning lead into gold: they've genetically converted leaves into petals, or flower organs. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/05/petals010205 SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS COFFEE GO DOWN
Scientists already knew that extreme sensitivity to some bitter flavours depends on our genes. But University of Washington researchers wanted to find out just how strong the bitter sensitivity is. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/02/05/coffee010205

2/Feb/2001 3 telephone giants get wireless permits
By: Bloomberg News BCE Inc., Rogers Wireless Communications Inc., and Telus Corp, Canada's three largest mobile- phone companies, won new wireless-phone licenses in an auction that raised $1.48 billion for the Canadian government. BCE Inc.'s Bell Mobility unit captured 20 of the 62 licenses up for sale, at a cost of $720.5 million. The licenses will allow BCE to expand its network into Canada's western provinces and boost its transmission capacity in Toronto and Montreal, where demand for new wireless services is greatest.

1/Feb/2001 Digital Darwinism: adapt or die
By: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times The Davos World Economic Forum is always useful for gauging global trends. In recent years much of the buzz at Davos was about what technology will do for us. This year, more and more, the buzz has been what technology is doing to us. If Davos is any indicator, there is a backlash brewing against the proliferation of technology in our lives. When participants arrived at Davos this year they were given yet another gadget to communicate with other participants - a Compaq pocket PC. As I fumbled around trying to figure out how mine worked, and interfaced with the complex Davos E-mail system that you access with a badge, the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who was trying to do the same, said to me: "I have so many devices now to make my life easier that I need someone just to carry them all around for me."

see 56 min 40 sec - Dec 14, 2005 Charlie Rose - James Watson chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and E.O. Wilson, professor emeritus, Harvard University. on Charles Darwin

1/Feb/2001 Techs trim TSE index
By: DJ; Bloomberg News The Toronto Stock Exchange's key index ended slightly lower yesterday as investors sold off technology stocks after the much-anticipated 50-basis-point reduction in U.S. interest rates became a reality. "The market had, in all likelihood, fully priced in a half-percent(age-point) decrease," said Canaccord Capital broker Norm Duncan. "So, you know, buy on rumour sell on news, isn't that the old saying?

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31/Jan/2001 Amazon.com axe falls
By: HEATHER LANDY Bloomberg News Amazon.com Inc. announced yesterday that it will fire 1,300 people, or 15 per cent of its work force, as the No. 1 Internet retailer's fourth-quarter loss widened to $545.1 million. The job cuts are the most ever announced by Amazon.com.

Products to speed up Internet
By: ERIK SCHATZKER Bloomberg News Nortel Networks Corp., the biggest maker of fibreoptic equipment, said it introduced a group of products designed to speed delivery of Internet content by programming switches to recognize customers. The products reduce the number of steps required to fill a request for information or meet a customer's set of preferences by automatically identifying the location of a computer or language of its Web browser. They'll help to keep the Internet free of bottlenecks as it carries more traffic, said Anil Khatod, Nortel president (global Internet solutions).

Fri 1/26/01 6:58 AM BIRTH WEIGHT LINKED TO MENTAL ABILITY
A controversial, long-term study has found birth weight is related to cognitive ability and educational performance. According to the researchers, the more you weighed at birth, the more intelligent you'll grow up to be. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/01/26/birth_weight010126

Fri 1/26/01 6:58 AM Sprint drops out of auction
By: VITO PILIECI Ottawa Citizen Sprint Corp. has become the latest company to drop out of the Canadian spectrum auction.
The third-largest long-distance provider in the U.S. announced yesterday it would withdraw from the federal spectrum auction, claiming certain bids ran much higher than the company was prepared to pay. Sprint was trying to acquire the licenses that would allow it to provide advanced cellular services to various urban areas, including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

27/Jan/2001 Something to beam about
By: MARY LAMEY and ALISON MACGREGOR The Gazette Bell ExpressVu is feeling pretty cocky. This week, Canada's largest satellite-television company reported a 74-per-cent increase in subscribers, one of few highlights in parent company BCE Inc.'s otherwise ho-hum annual results. The growth spurt has not gone unnoticed in an industry in which new players and technologies are jockeying for position against long-established cable monoliths.

20/Jan/2001 SCIENTISTS SLOW LIGHT TO A HALT
Faster than a speeding bullet, slower than a beam of light. Superman may be facing a new challenge - how to move more slowly than light. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/01/19/stop_light010119 ...Usually, light moves at 297,000 kilometres a second. It slows slightly when it passes through certain materials - like water or glass. But to stop it completely is a first.

Technology - Hardware

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 from The Wall Street Journal
IBM posted fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates on a 5.9% increase in revenue at the computer giant. Meanwhile, Apple Computer posted a quarterly loss as revenue dropped 57%, but the company said it will return to profitability in the current quarter.

16/Jan/2001 Wireless auction is under way
By: JAMES BAXTER Southam News A government-launched bidding war yesterday for airwave-access licenses for a host of new wireless Internet services could swell federal coffers by more than $2 billion.
With literally dozens of new digital wireless telephone and Internet services set to come on stream, the federal government released 62 new personal- communications services (PCS) spectrum licenses in 16 markets across Canada. The new frequencies are in the 2 gigahertz (GHz) range and are 10 megahertz (MHz) each.

15/Jan/2001 By JOHN MARKOFF FROM MONDAY'S TIMES
Growth slowed in Silicon Valley's job market last year, even as housing shortages and transportation bottlenecks became worse for the region that is often held out as the world's model for economic development.

15/Jan/2001 The technology sector has been under pressure as investors continue to worry about the effects of slower economic growth and a reduction in capital spending by telecom companies. Over the next several weeks a number of major telecom equipment companies will begin to report quarterly earnings. Although a degree of bad news appears to have been already priced in, we believe any major disappointments could still have a negative effect on valuations in the sector. Nortel Networks (NT -TSE) will be the first to report earnings scheduled on January 18. We are expecting the company to report earnings per share of U$0.25 compared to consensus estimates of U$0.26. Nortel is followed by JDS Uniphase . Given that Lucent has announced a string of disappointing earnings, we do not believe it will have as large of an impact on sector valuations as other major companies. In the telecom equipment group we believe that Nortel Networks and Nokia are most likely to meet expectations. Companies that may disappoint include Ericsson due to weakness in its handset division and Lucent Technologies which has been having difficulties at the operating level over the past few quarters. - G. Papageorgiou

Sasa Petricic reports for CBC TV
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15/Jan/2001 OTTAWA HOLDS CELLPHONE AIRWAVE AUCTION
To keep pace with a growing demand for cellphones, the federal government has opened up some new frequencies and is selling them to the highest bidder.

10/Jan/2001 HEADLINE: Discreet is back on its feet
By: JAN RAVENSBERGEN The Gazette
Not long ago, Discreet Logic Inc. was one of the brightest, brashest lights on the Montreal multimedia scene - never shy to brag about its special-effects software used to help produce movie blockbusters such as Titanic and Forrest Gump. Quirky company founder Richard Szalwinski enjoyed spectacular initial success with the digital-animation firm he launched in 1992, using a $27,000 grubstake. He took Discreet public on the Nasdaq in 1995. By early 1998, his company briefly broke through $1 billion Canadian in market capitalization.

10/Jan/2001 Microsoft moves from office to living room
By: DINA BASS Bloomberg News
Microsoft Corp. is taking a stab at the couch-potato market. The world's largest software-maker and La-Z-Boy Inc. said they're teaming to sell the first "E-cliner," a Web-television-enabled reclining armchair. La-Z-Boy's Explorer model comes with a keyboard, a Sony Corp. receiver for Microsoft's WebTV and two free months of the interactive-television service, which lets users surf the Internet and play along with such game shows as Jeopardy

10/Jan/2001 World's oldest industry enters DVD phase
By: KAREN KAPLAN Los Angeles Times
The future of digital entertainment is unfolding inside a room at VCA Labs, where a bank of whirring computers and video equipment is churning out such forgettable movie titles as Stupid Cupid and Carwash Angels 2. The California company has produced more than 135 DVD movies that enable viewers to decide how the plot should twist, select a special camera angle and even interact with the on-screen stars.

9/Jan/2001 DIGITAL RADIO - COMING TO A DIAL NEAR YOU
Two American companies are promising crystal-clear, CD-quality sound beamed to your car or home - all for the low price of $9.95 US a month. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/01/08/digital_radio010108 CLIP:

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Wed 1/3/01 7:00 PM FROM EARTH TO MARS IN AS LITTLE AS TWO WEEKS
Scientists at Ben-Gurion University have shown that an unusual nuclear fuel could send space vehicles from Earth to Mars in as little as two weeks. Spacecraft now take between eight and 10 months to make the same trip.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/01/03/fuel010103

Mon 1/1/01 7:00 PM HYDROGEN FUEL CELL HUMS TO LIFE The auto industry is very excited about the prototype of Ford's latest Focus. That's because of what's under the hood – hydrogen fuel cells to provide energy for an electric motor.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2000/12/29/fuel_cell001229

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