Technology

By IAN ROSS Thriving on confusion has proved to be a blessing for Ron Savage.

What does it mean to be innovative? For this month’s Top 5 Innovators feature, we went through our files to find five examples of innovation and came up with five very different definitions of the word, from all over Northern Ontario.

By IAN ROSS Small businesses are fast becoming targets of Internet criminals intent on planting viruses in a never-ending hunt to steal valuable and sensitive financial information, says an Internet security expert.

BY JOSEPH QUESNEL The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) and Northern Ontario Business will connect valuable supply companies from across Northern Ontario with major industrial players through a new partnership initiative.

By Northern Ontario Business Staff Four winners of the Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma Region IT Awards were recognized for their Internet Technology advancements at the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) on September 22.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Algoma University College (AUC) will become the third university in the world to offer a master’s degree program in computer games. This is just one of the spinoff opportunities created from the $6.

By ADELLE LARMOUR Northern Ontarians are early adopters of the Internet, according to the recently released called Northern Ontario Computer and Connectivity Adoption Survey, June 2005.

By CRAIG GILBERT Waiting on no one, College Boréal and its affiliated secondary school boards are taking a lead role in the drive for more French-language trades training.

By IAN ROSS Mark Charbonneau wants to create a piece of high tech heaven.

Bernice Adkins, an 85-year-old step dancer in Sudbury, invented a device that allows for water to be discharged from a hot water radiator without spraying.