By Karin Kloosterman
Ontario universities have some of the world’s most massive libraries, located at several locations over sprawling campuses. Spending hours at Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, used to make me wonder how on earth do the librarians keep track of all those books?
Well they couldn’t exactly, at least not in a system [...]

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By Paul Shindman
You wouldn’t think that the demise of Nortel would be felt in Israel, but ouch!,  it is. Yes, the “global economy” thing really does exist and when a giant like Nortel falls, it’s felt around the world. And its going bust is hurting all around the globe - including Israel, where Nortel was [...]

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 By Lauren Kramer
Combine Israeli innovation and Canadian know-how and whaddaya get? Ideally, business enterprises positioned for profit and success. That’s the rationale behind the Lab-to-Market symposium being held in Toronto February 3 and 4 at the Intercontinental Hotel and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Attendees at the symposium will represent the Israeli business sector and Tel Aviv [...]

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by Jonathan Arenson

If you have used Microsoft Virtual Earth, you’ll be happy to read this.
A newly created patch dubbed the “Holy Patch” will offer users a high resolution satellite image of Jerusalem which was previously unavailable due to US laws.
To find out more, check out the Ogle Earth Blog.

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By Lauren Kramer
Remember the last time you stayed in a hotel? In all probability, you forgot to turn off the lights when you left the room, and you almost certainly didn’t change the temperature. That means even when your room was unoccupied the hotel’s energy costs for that room were high. Such scenarios, when lights, [...]

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