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Private industry in space a risky, slow business: experts

NASA's plan for the private sector to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is a high-risk undertaking that won't show results for years, experts said.

 
 
 

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Google pushes Chrome browser as PC battle looms

Google has taken the unusual step of using real-world advertising to promote its Chrome web browser in Europe ahead of a regulatory change that will make it easier for consumers to switch Web browsers.


 

Asian companies hope to reap iPad boom

The iPad may have been designed in the United States, but Apple's money-spinning products are manufactured in the high-tech factories of east Asia.


 

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Ottawa firm's technology lets crowd control arena scoreboard games

A small Ottawa technology company is ready to help basketball superstars Lebron James and Shaquille O'Neal pump up the crowds in Cleveland just in time for the NBA playoffs.


 

Microsoft Q2 profit surges to $6.66B

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, reported second-quarter profit and revenue that easily topped analysts' estimates after Windows 7 spurred the first sales increase in a year.


 

Ailing music industry eyes revenue in streaming

At its annual French Riviera gathering this week, the ailing music industry considered whether legal streaming services that offer millions of tracks via the Internet might offer a breakthrough.


 

Countries increasingly tackling music piracy head-on

More and more countries are following the example of France, Sweden and South Korea in battling illegal music downloads to help prop up the embattled music industry.


 

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LESLEY CHESTERMAN

A major force on the restaurant scene

The first time I met Pasquale Vari was in 1988 in the students' lounge of the Institut de tourisme et de l'hôtellerie du Québec. We became friends immediately, probably because we were two of very few English-speaking students there at the time. I followed Vari's career as he went from Montreal restaurant

 
BILL ZACHARKIW

Will the real Chile be allowed to stand up?

I was at the end of a two-week visit to Chile. It was more than 30C outside, and I was visiting my last winery before heading to the airport. I had been invited by the Chilean wine industry's marketing board, Wines of Chile, to be part of an all-Canadian judging panel for its annual wine awards, and had sta

 
LESLEY CHESTERMAN

Before you roast it, you raise a baby lamb

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along and hits all the right notes. How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking by Michael Psilakis (Little Brown, 2009) has done just that. Has Greek cuisine ever looked so appealing? I think not, and never have I seen such a drool-inducing selection of dishes.

 
JOHN GRIFFIN

Getting a read on Tolstoy's family

Michael Hoffman has been doing an entire slate of press interviews in Los Angeles, but the writer-director of The Last Station is still going strong.

 
 
 
 
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