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Can QuickLaw Really Help Lawyers?

Joshua Slayen | Posted 03.08.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Lawyers, Microsoft, Law Practice, Office, Law, Legal, Lexisnexis, Quicklaw, Canada Business News
Joshua Slayen

LexisNexis and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a new solution called Quicklaw for Microsoft Office. They say it is designed to simplify legal research and ultimately save time for lawyers. I took it for a test drive to see if it's all they say it is.

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What Comes After Smartphones?

Mitch Joel | Posted 02.09.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Android, Amazon, Ipad, Microsoft, Google Glasses, Smartphone, Apple, Xbox Kinect, Apple Smartphone, Laptop Apple, Smartphones, Canada Gets Digital, Canada Business News
Mitch Joel

What will Apple do next? What is the technology that will disrupt the iPhone and iPad business? If you have read Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography (and I strongly recommend that you do), there was a very telling (and compelling) line from Jobs: "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will."

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Female Video Game Characters Are Still More Breasts Than Brains

Kyle Bachan | Posted 01.07.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Halo 4, Microsoft, Videogames, Female Objectification, Portrayal of Female Video Game Characters, Female Video Game Character, Girl Gamers, Slideshow, Feminist Video Game, Halo 4 Released, Video Game Sexism, Sexualized Video Game, Video, Canada Living News
Kyle Bachan

Why can't female video game characters, especially ones that were created to break the mold of the male-hero-saves-the-day, retain their brains and problem-solving abilities as their selling point? After all, video games are supposed to be escapism from the messed-up, patriarchal world we live in, so it's about time they started living up to that expectation.

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Watching the Watchdog: Will Microsoft Produce the Next Walter Cronkite?

Tim Knight | Posted 09.19.2012 | Canada
Read More: Journalists, Social Justice, Responsibility, Request for Applicants, Storytelling, MSNBC.Com, Microsoft World News, National Amusements, Cbs, Redemption, Journalism, Social Media, Congo, English, Shining Jewel in Crown of Democracy, Tiffany Network, Letter of Resignation, Courage, Tv Industry, Viacom, Journalistic Excellence, Surrogates, Union, Nation, Abc, Microsoft, Antitrust Laws, Participatory Democracy, God?S Autograph, Most Trusted Man in America, Public Interest, Westinghouse Electric, Edward R. Murrow, CBS Evening News, Free Marketplace of Ideas, Golden Age for TV News, Loyalty, Walter Cronkite, Accountability, Servants, Canada News
Tim Knight

Once upon a time when the world was young and had hope, and global warming, the one per cent and social media hadn't yet been invented, there truly was a golden age for TV news in North America. Could Microsoft bring that golden age back since its split from MSNBC?

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The $6.2-Billion Flop

CP | Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press | Posted 09.01.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Factset, Aquantive, Microsoft aQuantive Deal, Microsoft Corp aQuantive, Microsoft aQuantive Loss, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft Loss, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp Loss, BGP Financial Partners, Doubleclick, Deal Microsoft aQuantive, Canada Business News

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft is absorbing a $6.2 billion charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history turned out to be a dud.Th...

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A Match Made in Mobile Purgatory? Microsoft and RIM

Robert Whent | Posted 05.17.2012 | Canada
Read More: Blackberry, POCKET PC, Windows Mobile, Rim, Microsoft, Microsoft 8, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Phone, Windows Phone, Qnx, Canada News
Robert Whent

With the Blackberry maker RIM struggling today to stay relevant, I think it's time they join forces, hire some new interface designers and give Apple and Android a run for their money -- if they do it right.

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Nortel Sells Remaining Patents to Apple, Microsoft Amongst Others

www.cbc.ca | Posted 08.31.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Blackberry, Apple, Nortel Patents, Nortel Communications, Nortel Networks, Microsoft, Nortel, Rim, Sony, Canada Business News

THE CANADIAN PRESS — Former Canadian technology giant Nortel Networks Corp. has auctioned off all its remaining patents to a consortium of software ...

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Bill Gates: Foreign Aid 2.0

Patricia Adams | Posted 07.27.2011 | Canada
Read More: Third World Aid, Foreign Aid, Africa Aid, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Bill Gates Foundation, Canada News
Patricia Adams

Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has a revolutionary new model for foreign aid that, by his own admission, will be an "incredibly effective way to combat hunger and extreme poverty."

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