Technology

Kamloops will be getting a new data centre, as well as LTE cellular service and Optik TV, thanks to a $100 million investment by Telus (TSX:T).

A Vancouver startup will capitalize on a captive audience of dentists at this week’s Pacific Dental Conference to launch connectthedoc.com , an online appointment booking system.

Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia held an opening ceremony last night for its revamped facility, which has just undergone a $70 million revitalization and expansion.

Telus (TSX:T) will invest $3 billion in B.C. over the next three years, adding 1,300 jobs in the process, the company announced at a press conference Friday. The investment includes the $750 million Telus Gardens project, roughly $1.

The founder of Avigilon Corp. (TSX: AVO), one of the few Vancover high-tech companies to go public in recent years, opened the TSX Wednesday morning, the same day it posted solid year-end financials.

Vancouver dating site PlentyofFish.com is being sued by the family of an American solider for hosting an ad that featured the man’s photo four years after he was killed in battle.

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA) had an 11% increase in revenue in 2011 over 2010, according to the company’s 2011 annual report.

Applying laws that predate the “electrification” of North America to circumstances that currently exist with the omnipresent use of information technology socially and in commerce is an enormous challenge. However, the ability of the law to adapt to new realities is one of the greatest strengths of our common law system.

Telus invests $1 billion in technology it says can help control health-care costs

Richmond’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd . (TSX: MDA) has signed a $4.2 million contract with Vancouver’s UrtheCast Inc. , a subsidiary of Earth Video Camera Inc.