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2008-03-20

Edward C. Baig USA Today With SugarSync Mobile, photos you take with your phone are automatically synced to your PC. You use a computer at work, one at home and a third when you travel. You carry an Internet-capable smartphone , too. If onl…

2008-03-20

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2008-03-19

U.S. economic woes have silver lining for those with mortgages Suzanne Fournier Province HELMUT PASTRICK For B.C. homeowners struggling with huge mortgages, falling interest rates could be the silver lining to the cloud cast by the deepenin…

2008-03-19

One owner acquitted of murder in 1995 Derrick Penner Sun New highrise developments are being build near the Sun Tower at Pender and Beatty streets. Photograph by : Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun The Sun Tower , one of Vancouver 's premiere heri…

2008-03-19

Murderbox crafts high-end computers with a flair for design and personality Marke Andrews Sun Charles Harwood (left) builds custom-made, high-end computers, each of which is dubbed Murderbox. Customer Simon Barry's model moves liquid coolan…

2008-03-19

Rising employment among young, house price increases key factors Fiona Anderson Sun Rising house prices, and increasing employment rates among the young, are having a spinoff effect on rental apartments, according to an economic forecast by…

2008-03-19

Marc Saltzman USA Today The Blu-Ray disc logo is displayed at January's Consumer Electronics Show. New features are on tap for the brand's high-def DVD players. The high-definition-video war may be over now that Toshiba has conceded defeat …

2008-03-18

Network connecting universities has capacity of five GB per second Chad Skelton Sun Michael Hrybyk is the CEO of BCNet, which has quadrupled the network's capacity to 50,000 times faster than a home high-speed Internet connection. Photograp…

2008-03-18

Derrick Penner Sun It is too soon to say whether the rising turmoil in world financial markets will shake the confidence of British Columbians and scare them out of the housing market, according to economic observers. High prices in B.C. re…

2008-03-18

Sue Kirchhoff and Barbara Hagenbaugh USA Today President Bush on Monday with, from left, SEC head Christopher Cox, Treasury chief Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. A home for sale in Antioch, Calif. With mortgage delinquency rate…

2008-03-16

Pedro Arrais Province When buying a new home, it is important to remember there are added expenses besides the mortgage. While most homeowners are prepared, a recent Ipsos Reid poll found three in 10 B.C. residents felt unprepared for the c…

2008-03-16

Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: Our 111- unit condo building in Vancouver is at war over the issue of smoking. We have been unsuccessful in the past years on passing a bylaw that would restrict smoking in common areas, and the pro…

2008-03-16

Tony Gioventu Province Dear Condo Smarts: Our 111- unit condo building in Vancouver is at war over the issue of smoking. We have been unsuccessful in the past years on passing a bylaw that would restrict smoking in common areas, and the pro…

2008-03-16

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2008-03-15

Affordability continued to deteriorate in 2007, RBC report finds Derrick Penner Sun It got even harder to afford a home in Metro Vancouver at the end of 2007. RBC Economics confirmed Friday what any home shopper here knows -- buying a house…

2008-03-15

Fiona Anderson Sun Making buildings greener is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gases, a panel at Globe 2008 told delegates Friday in Vancouver . Buildings in Canada are responsible for about 35 per cent of greenh…

2008-03-15

One-bedroom units already sold out Sun Chief and chef in the new Georgia Residences sales centre, the president of the property's developer, Bruce Langereis of Delta Group, poses with David Hawksworth. Photograph by : Bill Keay, Vancouver S…

2008-03-15

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2008-03-15

Ida Victoria Gustavson Other Many people who move to Los Cabos bring along works of art that mean a lot to them. Sometimes in the transit, these works become damaged: glass broken, mouldings chipped, artwork knocked kitty wampas in the fram…

2008-03-15

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2008-03-14

Turner warns that prices may begin to fall John Morrissy Province OTTAWA -- With the subprime contagion spreading around the world, Canadians who hoped their homes would be immune from the carnage are wrong. The disease is here and coming s…

2008-03-14

Developers sprouting gardens Allen Garr Van. Courier Sometime during last summer's civic strike a Tex-Mex rib joint named Carlos 'N Bud's disappeared from the corner of Pacific and Seymour and a most amazing transformation took place. The b…

2008-03-13

For a place this small and casual, it sure offers some spiffy plates Mark Laba Province Dawn Dawson (left) serves spinach salad and hand-rolled cilantro-pork dumplings. Christina Doo (right) holds black-eyed Shanghai and sweet-Thai chicken …

2008-03-13

"We continue to see the market rebalance, particularly with detached properties, where listings climb and sales either hold or decline slightly." - REBGV president Brian Naphtali. Sun The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) repor…