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- 08/7/28 21:10
Virgin Galactic rolled out the mothership aircraft of its private space tourism business on Monday, a white four-engine plane designed to launch a passenger spaceship into low-Earth orbit.
Virgin Galactic rolled out the mothership aircraft of its private space tourism business on Monday, a white four-engine plane designed to launch a passenger spaceship into low-Earth orbit.
The Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services was established a year ago, but few Canadians are even aware there's an agency where they can take their cellphone and internet gripes.
A Quebec man has launched a class action lawsuit against Bell Mobility and Telus, following a move by the cellphone providers to charge customers for incoming text messages.
The vice-president of a Quebec company that takes aerial photographs of the Afghanistan countryside says the company's special software may have saved up to 100 lives because it means surveyors don't have to measure the territory on foot.
XM Canada, one of Canada's two satellite radio broadcasters, said it was reviewing its options after its U.S. counterpart's merger with rival Sirius became official on Friday.
Bell Canada will cut about 2,500 management jobs to reduce costs, the telecommunications company's parent firm, BCE Inc., announced Monday.
Neurology patients in central Newfoundland have to travel for treatment this summer, even though equipment designed to help them is sitting in a hospital.
Newfoundland Power has been putting nesting songbirds at risk with work in the southern Avalon Peninsula, a conservationist warns.
FRIDAY 25. JULY 2008
IBM and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology are working on a high-tech system to monitor premature babies for potentially life-threatening conditions, such as infections.
An American marine shipping expert says eastern Arctic waterways should be protected from a growing influx of cruise ship traffic.
Sport scientist Steve Draper from the University of Gloucestershire says drummers have as much stamina as elite athletes.
British internet service providers are moving decisively against illegal file sharing with a traffic-policing program that will see copyright violators receive warning letters and potentially have their connections cut off.
Randy Pausch, the computer science professor who rose to fame after giving a quirky last lecture about celebrating life in the face of his terminal cancer, died Friday.
The largest school board in Newfoundland and Labrador breached privacy legislation, according to a ruling made in the wake of recent computer thefts.
A Montreal couple struck by lightning while camping on a remote Quebec island are lucky to be alive, a leading climatologist says.
THURSDAY 24. JULY 2008
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could be looming for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.
The proposed merger of the U.S.'s two satellite radio broadcasters is expected to be approved after the companies agreed to pay $19.7 million US to settle rules violations.
A changing climate may someday shrink water supplies in Arctic communities, said a researcher at a climate symposium in Iqaluit.
Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.
The same day Fredericton's Science East centre found its missing White's tree frog, it received the offer of a new exotic amphibian.
The federal and Ontario governments have signed a deal that commits $6.2 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet service and other infrastructure improvements in the province over the next six years.
Religious scholars, rare document experts and history buffs around the globe will get a chance to peruse segments of the Codex Sinaiticus online, as curators launch a website showcasing the valuable biblical text.
The introduction of enhanced drivers licences (EDLs) containing wireless technology is billed as a convenience that can speed up activities such as border crossings, but it's also unleashing a storm of controversy in both Canada and the U.S.
Bell must not be allowed to determine which traffic is urgent and which isn't, wholesale customers tell CRTC.
Business is booming at online retailer Amazon.com Inc., with second-quarter profit jumping 102 per cent to $158 million US from $78 million last year.