Gillian Shaw: Spring break travel? A cure for those mobile phone roaming bill blues (with podcast)

Before you pack your bags to head off for March break, check out some tips to avoid an unpleasant suprise...

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• Vancouver firms HootSuite, Vision Critical tapped to launch IPOs in Canada’s ‘technology resurgence’
• Ellen's Oscar selfie: A murky example of what is or isn't product placement in a hyper-marketed world
• Apple takes iOS for a spin in autos (updated)
• BlackBerry announces new phones, services as part of comeback strategy

Victoria the Canadian capital of selfies, according to Time magazine

Victorians like to brag about their weather and picturesque coastline, but are they the most selfie-...

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• Parent Traps: Navigating your teens through the murky world of social media
• Photos: Selfies, photobombs and behind the scenes - the best Oscars photos from Twitter and Instagram
• And the Oscar goes to ... our sponsors!

Vancouver animation company casts its dance music magic this weekend

Visuals an inegral part of the scene at electronic dance event

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• EDM Part One: Witness to the birth of a ‘scene’
• EDM Series Part 2: Key moments in electronic dance music history (graphic)
• Electronic Dance Music Part 3: Keeping the party safe (with video)

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox target of proposed Canadian class action suit

Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy in Japan and the U.S.

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Vancouver bar locks patrons' smartphones away to bring back lost art of conversation

We've all been there - you're out for a round of drinks or dinner with friends, then one by one, each...

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• Our healthy sleep habits shattered by the glow of modern gizmos
• Sony unveils waterproof Xperia phone with 4K video and noise cancellation
• Civility in transit: Are we rude when we drive and ride? (with video)
• Raffi: Parents, just say ‘no’ to your kids
• 'All or nothing': finding a balance between work and life
• New app from B.C. farmers helps you buy local
• Apple’s record sales of iPhones, iPads during first quarter fails to appease Street
• Boomers play high-tech catch-up with younger set

Vancouver hopes TED will be a catalyst for economic growth and innovation, and more conventions

TED, that grail of thought-provoking conventions that will draw 1,200 of the brightest minds in the ...

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• TED to broadcast conference live for the public at Terry Fox Plaza
• $1 million TED Prize goes to Charmian Gooch, the co-founder and director of Global Witness
• Lineup set for TED’s move to Vancouver
• Photojournalist to have Vancouver homecoming at TED conference
• B.C. poet Shane Koyczan wins hearts of TED crowd with anti-bullying stories (with video)
• As TED conference looks ahead to Vancouver, here are a dozen ideas from 2013 event
• Vancouver students take their plastic-eating bacteria ideas to the stage at TED
• School in the cloud: Research on how to get children to teach themselves yields $1-million TED prize for Sugata Mitra
• Five interesting talks given at TED on Tuesday
• TED 2013 conference: Bono lauds progress in fight against poverty
• Influential Fellows crunch ideas at TED
• Is TED elitist? Yes, but that’s okay
• Canada gets ready to host global tourism leaders