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• The Calgary Water Centre exudes environmental standards for the future of Calgary

  Created: Wednesday, 09 December 2009 09:18 Author: Elizabeth Eve Gotsdiner

  Home to 800 employees, the centre is located at Spiller Road and 25th Avenue SE.  Luminous floor to ceiling windows allow ninety-five percent of the building to be naturally lit.  Open workspaces allocate an energy reduction of fifty to fifty-fi...

• The Science Centre is Preparing for their Big Move to a New Location in Fall 2011

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 12:44 Author: Krysta Remington

  The new Telus World of Science Centre set to open in the fall of 2011 will be a purpose built centre, certified environmentally-sensitive to include new galleries and exhibits, and boast a four acre outdoor ‘amazement park’. It will move from its cur...

• Pioneering the online frontier

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:30 Author: Robert Strachan

  Calgary media company claims territory on the Internet news market While many news outlets are struggling to find viable online revenue models to serve an audience used to getting free content, a Calgary-based online media company is earning income and i...

• The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 1: The Print Magazines

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:24 Author: Sarah Kitteringham

    In the aftermath of the stock market drop in October 2008, nearly every individual and business has suffered. Fewer profits have resulted in less disposable income, causing the chain to repeat endlessly. In the case of print media, things went from b...

• Online Gaming Cheapens Human Life

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:17 Author: Kelsey Riecken

  Imagine coming home from work, sitting on the couch, and putting on a headset complete with microphone and earphones. You’ve made plans to meet with friends on a battlefield in the middle of the Second World War around seven o’clock. Upon arrival, yo...

• A New Kind of Power

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:08 Author: Julie Milne

  Can you imagine a world where everything runs off of one kind of energy? Imagine your house, car, television, cell phone, even airplanes, and spaceships – all run without greenhouse gas emissions but still using the same fuel sources we use today. Imagi...

• People Rush to Buy New Gadgets and Gizmos

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 10:08 Author: Nadine Miller

  Technology is an ever-changing phenomenon that is constantly updating, and releasing new and improved products onto the market. This has created a new generation of people who are filled with a consumeristic desire to own the latest and greatest gadgets. ...

• Culture Catch-up

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:54 Author: Diane Klaver

  On Wednesday Sept 30, 2009 I went without. For 24 hours I refused to answer my cell phone, check my emails or listen to my IPod. Some said this was crazy talk. Shaking their heads at me, they sighed as though I had inflicted deep suffering on myself....

• Charity funds go mobile

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:53 Author: Stacey Mastel

  Fingers flying over the buttons of a cell phone may now be doing more than text messaging a friend, they may be helping grant a child’s wish or ending extreme poverty. Canadian charities will now be using text messaging to do some fundraising in hopes ...

• Pushing those pesky scalpers to the curb

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:51 Author: Jessica Melnychuk

  A new way to boot those irritating concert-ticket scalpers out the door is in the beginning stages of being implemented in Calgary. Paperless tickets, much like the ones frequently seen around airports in recent years, are designed to cut out the scalpe...

• Smart Is In

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:50 Author: Cory Knibutat

  A few years from now the device you usually refer to as a phone may be laughed at as easily as a VCR is laughed at today. Super-Intelligent smart phones are on their way to consumers as early as next year as Apple and its competitors race to create the ne...

• This Is Air Traffic Control To Major Tom

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:49 Author: Hey-Zeus Christophe

  Nothing can really prepare you for Devan Jones. At least nothing could prepare me as I settled in for the night shift at the Canadian Rockies International Airport. Jones is a 24-year-old Manitoban now living in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He’s tall, ...

• CJSW: Bigger, Brighter and Shinier!

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:49 Author: Claire Miglionico

  APARTMENT TO ACREAGE It’s official: CJSW – Calgary’s favorite community radio station has finally moved out of its cramped basement. It is now airing from the third floor of the University of Calgary’s McEwan student centre right next to NUTV â€...

• Cloudy with a chance of wind, rain, sun, snow and ice

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:49 Author: Catherine Szabo

  Calgary chinook in late November. Photo: Catherine Szabo Clear and bright, satellite images of incoming weather systems are just one piece of evidence that weather technology has come leaps and bounds in the past few decades. But everybody still lo...

• Bioware: Building a Gamer Community

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:49 Author: Edward Osborne

  The growing videogames market may soon out pace all other entertainment media. And this isn't some crackpot claim. Reports from the BBC and Reuters indicate a massive increase in gamers and multi-billion dollar games purchases. One of the companies rele...

• Back to Plastic

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:48 Author: Jonathan Stewart

  When it comes to film and television production; not all recent innovations may be steps in the right direction. As more and more directors of popular movies and television shows make the noticeable switch from traditional plastic film stock to digital me...

• Overcoming the uncanny valley

  Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:48 Author: Aaron Chatha

  Technological advancements in computer graphics technology are changing the mainstream media forever. Movies like Final Fantasy: Spirits Within and Beowulf demonstrate how well graphic artists can recreate the human face. But even these skilled artists ...

• Are you there world? It’s me Kim!

  Created: Monday, 20 April 2009 10:09 Author: Kimberley Jev

  Making a mark in the new world one tweet at a time. In January when I joined Twitter, I had 0 followers.  Today my Tweetdeck runs on a 24/7 schedule, I have 980 updates, an average of 1 follower a day, over 200 @replies, 380 followers and 150 direct mes...

• Giving Calgarians a taste of the leisure life

  Created: Friday, 17 April 2009 08:51 Author: Selina Renfrow

  photo: courtesy of Randy Gibson It may seem to be a question of what came first, the chicken or the egg, with local web log The Modern Leisure. Did the ‘blog' come first, with its numerous contributors, or did the events they host...

• The evolution of gaming consoles

  Created: Thursday, 09 April 2009 09:49 Author: Darcie Carriere

  Since the introduction of the gaming console in 1976, gaming systems have transformed in many ways. Now that technology has progressed, and ideas have been put to paper, consoles have evolved from two squares chasing each other, to games that are so g...