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• Touchscreen BlackBerry launching 'soon'
It also did not give an exact launch date, saying only that the smartphone is "coming soon". Technology bloggers and analysts have speculated since early this year that Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM was working on a touch device as an answer to Apple's ...
• Shorter radiation works for breast cancer
Timothy Whelan of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the study. Many women with breast cancer that has not spread far can have what is known as a lumpectomy, to take out only the tumor and surrounding tissue and save most of the breast.
• Western states propose carbon trading
The plan was drafted by Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, and by the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Whether lawmakers in each state will now adopt the regulations is unclear ...
• Thomson to sell assets for $7.75 billion
Thomson said Apax Partners, a private equity firm, and OMERS Capital Partners, an Ontario-based pension plan, are buying the higher-education, careers and library-reference divisions of Thomson Learning as well as Nelson Canada, an Ontario-based book ...
• Huffing and puffing to blow a house down
A big bad wolf of a “hurricane” hasn’t exactly blown down the roof or walls of a brick house at the University of Western Ontario. Even so, the university’s “ Three Little Pigs ” project is offering a revealing look at how winds from ...