Technology

By ANDREW WAREING It seems possible to buy just about anything over the Internet. name="valign" top > Mark Alexander (in photo) and his brother Matt developed www.minesource.com.

By IAN ROSS Within three or four years, Peter Cunningham suspects even the deepest part of Inco's mines in Sudbury should be as technologically connected as any modern office environment.

By ANDREW WAREING A conversation with Nigel Leith is a little like riding a roller coaster.

By ANDREW WAREING For the modern business, using information technology (IT) all through the production chain can provide real competitive advantage.

An online platform called Flintbox, developed by University of British Columbia and used for connecting people to academic research, will be available at Lakehead University.

KELLY LOUISEIZE Thunder Bay company fsc Limited has received $400,000 in Industrial Research Assistance Program funding to develop a new software technology product used in conjunction with Microsoft.NET. Microsoft.

NEOnet has been asked by Industry Canada's Broadband for Rural and Northern Development (BRAND) program for more information on the need for broadband in several northern communities.

KELLY LOUISEIZE Thunder Bay company fsc Limited has received $400,000 in Industrial Research Assistance Program funding to develop a new software technology product used in conjunction with Microsoft.NET. Microsoft.

By ANDREW WAREING Sometimes it just makes sense to have someone do what a business does not have the resources or the background to do itself. name="valign" top > Denis Castonguay, e-business specialist for e-Sudbury.

Impressed by New Liskeard's labour pool, NuComm International has selected New Liskeard as the site of its new customer support and call centre.