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Rivals line up to battle iPod's dominance

2006-09-23

DIGITAL I Microsoft's new Zune is a Christmas no-show Peter Wilson Sun The top-selling Apple iPod (left) with Microsoft’s Zune, which won’t be available in Canada until 2007 Microsoft's highly hyped new Zune music and video play…

Roar_One - Now for something completely different

2006-09-23

The allure of Roar_One in Point Grey lies in invisible or intangible elements Chantal Eustace Sun In the Roar homes, the kitchen appliances were not the selling tool that other new-home-project developers wield. The powerful green paint use…

Rivals line up to battle iPod's dominance including Microsoft Zune

2006-09-23

DIGITAL I Microsoft's new Zune is a Christmas no-show Peter Wilson Sun The top-selling Apple iPod (left) with Microsoft’s Zune, which won’t be available in Canada until 2007. Microsoft's highly hyped new Zune music and video pla…

Current MLS Systyem wants to restrict discount brokers from listing on MLS

2006-09-21

It's money, of course, but the CREA is fighting a losing battle in trying to restrict access to its listing service Tsur Somerville Sun The Canadian Real Estate Association wants to prevent discount real estate brokers from using its websit…

St. Regis to be reborn as one of city's 'nicest boutique hotels'

2006-09-21

Malcolm Parry Sun Steph Nicolls (left) is managing director of Rob Macdonald’s St. Regis hotel, which will be renovated to match his Gotham and Hudson properties Rob MacDonald has big plans for the rather faded St. Regis hotel, which …

FigMint provides an attitude-free zone

2006-09-21

Executive chef Lee Humphries is making food so good that it may cause David Hawksworth of West to glance over his shoulder Mia Stainsby Sun FigMint Restaurant is located in the Plaza 500 Hotel near Vancouver city hall at Cambie and 12th. I …

Meat loaf to 'fill your boots'

2006-09-21

It's the most popular sandwich at Salty Tongue where they cook their own meats and meat loaf Mia Stainsby Sun Erin Heather presents meat loaf sandwich at the Salty Tongue in Gastown. Photograph by : Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun Sean Heather o…

Device sticks it to would-be burglars

2006-09-20

Jim Jamieson Province Windowstick inventor Robert Allen demonstrates the use of his patented home-alarm device. Robert Allen had a great idea one day in 2001 when he was driving away from a jobsite near Qualicum Beach. It occurred to the co…

Developer, city clash over Olympic Village

2006-09-20

Plans for a 'green' project with West Coast design still in haggling stages Frances Bula Sun False Creek is busy with building work, but plans for the Olympic village are unsettled with construction to start in six months. Photograph by : W…

Ownership hits 62% of median income

2006-09-20

Market enters 'uncharted waters' as affordability plummets, RBC says Derrick Penner Sun The cost of owning an average bungalow in Vancouver would eat up 62 per cent of the median income, a figure that exists in "uncharted waters" in terms o…

Let's ease homebuyers' burden

2006-09-20

For starters, scrap the transfer tax Don Cayo Sun The news about the Lower Mainland's housing affordability seems to get only worse. The latest, an RBC Economics report released Tuesday, reveals that a bungalow or townhouse is less affordab…

Housing starts plunge to 3-year low

2006-09-20

Matt Krantz USA Today Home builders broke ground on 6% fewer homes in August to a more than three-year-low, the government reported Tuesday, stunning forecasters at how rapidly the housing boom has gone bust. The slowdown, which curtailed t…

Bert's house on the block

2006-09-19

: Six bedroom, seven bathrooms in MacKenzie Heights Damian Inwood Province Todd Bertuzzi's gone to Florida and his Vancouver house is for sale. Photograph by : Wayne Leidenfrost, The Province Canuck fans with deep pockets could get a chance…

Tories pushed over leaky condos

2006-09-19

Group wants to make sure PM will honour vow Peter O'Neil Sun OTTAWA - A group representing some of B.C.'s estimated 65,000 victims in the $1.5-billion leaky condo crisis is giving Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government a deadline to pro…

Digital Internet VOIP Phones on an increase

2006-09-19

With the advent of Internet phone service, customers have a huge and confusing choice -- and it doesn't yet include Telus Peter Wilson Sun Shaw's Corey Mandryk installs a digital phone that uses VoIP technology. Photograph by : Bill Keay, V…

Elderly homeowner bilked by contractor

2006-09-18

More than $200,000. Retired teacher fell prey to pressure from fraud artist Joey Thompson Province Pensioner Francis Loftus was what most people would think of as the proverbial sitting duck. With family either deceased or out of country, t…

Realtors battle over access to Canadian listing service

2006-09-18

PAUL WALDIE AND JANE GADD Other Canad’s full-service and discount realtors are at odds over the discounters’ practice of listing homes on the MLS system for a fee while providing few actual real estate services to home sellers. …

Realtors battle over access to Canadian listing service

2006-09-18

PAUL WALDIE AND JANE GADD Other Canad’s full-service and discount realtors are at odds over the discounters’ practice of listing homes on the MLS system for a fee while providing few actual real estate services to home sellers. …

Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrades, adds new tricks

2006-09-18

Jefferson Graham USA Today Blended teams: After Adobe acquired Macromedia, former Macromedia executive Tome Hale, who ran that company’s Dreamweaver Web publishing tool division, became an adobe senior vice president. Adobe is transfo…

Science of autism gets to the basics

2006-09-18

Kathleen Fackelmann USA Today One step at a time: Ethan takes a homework break with his father, curt Meeder. Research has suggested that autism affects more regions of the brain than prviously thought, and complex or rapic-fire instructions…

Teachers speak out of turn

2006-09-18

Greg Toppo USA Today By Julie Hunter for USA TODAY Lisa Cooper, a fourth-grade teacher at Villa Rica (Ga.) Elementary, has had 5,600 hits since February on her blog, History is Elementary. Thought process: Cooper uses he husband’s lap…

Steve's simple solution

2006-09-18

Michael Urlocker Other Inventors tackle big hairy problems. Successful innovators somehow keep it simple. Management consultant Michael Urlocker shows how Apple's co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs keeps the balance. Dozens of Web, telecom and b…

Business Tools, Small And Smart

2006-09-18

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Microsoft's Zune may be bigger than iPod

2006-09-17

Randy Boswell Sun The Microsoft Zune media player is slated to be released by Christmas this year. Photograph by : The Associated Press Microsoft Corp. market researchers in Quebec found themselves in a potential linguistic pickle when they…