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Quebec's open-source software group, Facil, says the government is showing bias toward Microsoft by not using free alternatives.

Alberta's first nanotechnology centre opened Wednesday with the goal of turning ideas into products that can be sold around the world.

Bell Canada has served a Calgary-based internet service provider with a disconnection notice for failing to pay for rented access to its network.

Fat cells from people who are obese appear to be not working properly compared with those from lean people, medical researchers have found.

U.S. federal authorities have arrested a Los Angeles-area blogger accused of posting leaked tracks from the forthcoming Guns N' Roses album online.

A public dig organized by the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre has turned up the biggest fossil find in Manitoba in nearly 30 years.

Children may first learn about sharing when in pre-school, but a new study shows the behaviour doesn't take root until they are into the second grade.

NASA has ordered the Mars rover Opportunity to leave a giant crater it had been studying for nearly a year over concerns it might not be able to climb out at a later date.

This year's back-to-school notebooks are all about portability.

Howard Maker, a former banking services ombudsman, has been named the head of the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services.

New software is allowing Winnipeg police to use automated image matching to cut down the amount of time officers have to spend looking at child sexual abuse.

Even though anthrax bacteria was likely responsible for the death of 13 bison in Saskatchewan, Parks Canada officials said there is no reason for alarm.

The British government began an investigation Tuesday into how a computer containing highly sensitive bank information of over a million people was sold via online auction site eBay.

Researchers have found that deer and cows have an innate magnetic sense because they tend to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field lines when at rest.

Canadian 3G iPhone users are experiencing some of the fastest network speeds in the world, according to a study by Wired magazine's website.

Hundreds of bats found dead each year around wind turbines have suffered internal trauma from a sudden drop in air pressure at the turbine blades, according to new research to be published this week.

Edmonton city police are warning parents that child predators are using new video game systems to lure children when the kids are playing games online.

The federal government has designated 4,500 square kilometres of land and sea around Baffin Island as national wildlife heritage areas.

A healthy population of threatened turtles has been found in an eastern Ontario lake as a result of a study partly funded by local cottagers.

Q9 Networks Inc. said Monday it has agreed to a friendly takeover bid from Boston-based private equity firm ABRY Partners LLC that values the company at $361 million.