Media minders have been sent to an international polar conference in Montreal to shadow Canadian government scientists during interviews, in what critics are calling the latest example of extreme information control by the Harper Conservatives.

To be successful with family products, you have to design for kids, sell to parents, and convince teachers. But it's the grandparents who have all the dough. [Read more]

500 Startups is gathering entrepreneurs and investors together for a one-day conference to explore opportunities for "mommy companies." [Read more]

Conference to address findings of the International Polar Year, which lasted from 2007 to 2009.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook will be a lead speaker at All Things Digital's D10 conference next month. It will be the second appearance from Cook at an industry show in recent months. [Read more]

While making new keyboards and mice, or whatever else, Logitech has apparently been delving into new product ideas too, ultimately enabling the release of the ConferenceCam. In its own press release, Logitech calls this the BCC950 ConferenceCam all-in-one audio and video camera. It is meant to allow ...

As a kid you played with wooden marble blocks. Here's the uber-geeky version. [Read more]

Space Monkey gets a running start in its attack on DropBox, and more down-to-earth startups win awards, too. [Read more]

Hackers found and exploited two previously unknown security flaws in Google Chrome browser at a Vancouver IT security conference this week — the first time the browser has succumbed in such competitions.

Ever bigger data makes it increasingly possible to tackle some thorny problems. But it takes the right algorithms, and the intelligent selection of data too. [Read more]

The conference call discussed evidence and plans to arrest Anonymous members

Logitech has just announced that it has joined forces with Skype to deliver the world’s first webcam for businesses that can transmit Full HD 180p video at 30fps using on-board H.264 compression for optimizing the data packets sent out.In order to activate the H.264 hardware encoding in the camera, users ...