Chris Conrath

Most Web sites fulfil one of two objectives. Either they try to sell you something or inform you about something. In other words, sites are generally either e-commerce or e-information. Vancouver-based Mountain Equipment Co-op recently launched its revamped Web site which has managed to meld the two into a cohesive unit.

One of the most trying aspects of technology is troubleshooting.

A student goes away with the sensation: "It coulda been me!"

Much has been made of the new economy, how to define and how to turn a profit in it.

E-mail, at the best of times, is a time-consuming process. For employees participating on large group projects, sifting through e-mail can become an onerous and time-consuming task.

"Most companies believe that they have a product that should not compete only on price."

Though computing power has advanced at incredible speeds over the last quarter century, it has limitations. But today there is a growing field of computing so revolutionary that many of the traditional laws of physics which we treat with reverence are getting tossed on their sides. That field is quantum computing.

Even the purists can