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Byline: Omar El Akkad Omar El Akkad is the author of the forthcoming book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Early in the new year, the Presidential [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; Special to The Globe and Mail A Private Spy John la Carré VIKING , 7 5 2 PAGES 'Death - looming or simply out there - [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD PORTLAND, ORE. -- Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise One of the very few ideological ailments that seems to afflict both mainstream Democrats and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Author whose latest novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Giller Prize Over the years, like a jazz musician forced against his will to play the same [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Author whose latest novel is What Strange Paradise What remains of the Oak Park Motel resembles in a vague, unsettling way a school-fair diorama. The [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad Lead Omar El Akkad is the author of American War. He lives in Portland, Ore. It is difficult to watch a day such as Jan. 6, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Thomas Wilner has spent the past 17 years of his life trying to shut down the prison camps and military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TERMS-OF-SERVICE AGREEMENTS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER When the creators of 500px, a popular Toronto-based photo-sharing service, came to draw up the terms-of-service agreement for the site, they wanted [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD DIPLOMACY In four years as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has collected more air miles than many people rack up in a lifetime - thanks to [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD RETAIL Brace yourself for the quintessential calculus of post-Christmas consumerism: Are hour-long lines and potential shoving matches a fair trade for discount prices? The madness of [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD NEXT / The people, places, things and ideas that will shape 2013 / TECHNOLOGY Call it a TV guide on steroids. The NextGuide is an iPad [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER A hugely popular mobile app has been thrust into the centre of one of the biggest battlegrounds in online commerce: A company's [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad 12/12 CANADA COMPETES Even before you read it, you know that little sticky note on your front door means you've failed. That hilarious blender you bought [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD EGYPT CAIRO -- The real estate on her body is up for debate - perhaps somewhere along the upper back, or near the collarbone - but [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MIDDLE EAST CAIRO -- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has given his office broad, unchallenged powers over policy-making, sending protesters back to Tahrir Square and risking a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD SOCIAL NETWORKS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Facebook Inc. is starting to figure out mobile. The one-billion-strong social network posted its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday, slightly beating analyst [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER, OMAR EL AKKAD FOLIO: NEWSWEEK In an admission that news is not enough, and a week is much too long, one of the most well-known print magazines [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD FOLIO: U.S. DEBATE Wednesday night's U.S. presidential debate, the first of three before election day, quickly generated more activity on the microblogging site Twitter than any [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD ANALYSIS / RESEARCH IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTER While a short-term stock price surge is nice, what Research In Motion Ltd. investors should really be cheering this [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW THE IPHONE 5* The company that invented the original iPhone no longer exists. Apple Inc. unveiled the latest edition of the world's best [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Just a year ago, Netflix Inc. was riding high with a stock price hovering around the $300 (U.S.) mark. Today, Netflix shares trade [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MOBILE DEVICES TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The biggest names in the world of technology are about to find out exactly what it takes to convince consumers to give [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER For the first time in years, BlackBerry developers have reason to be optimistic. Research In Motion Ltd. gave a group of software developers [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD The Lookahead: Aug. 13 - 17 / NOTE FROM THE TECH BEAT Battling hundreds of competitors and facing some deeply skeptical investors, the world's most popular [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and RITA TRICHUR WIRELESS With thousands of layoffs coming, a business that is starting to bleed red ink and a board that is examining every option, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD INTERNET TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc., accused of misstating his academic credentials, has been ousted from the company after only four months [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Once again, Apple has silenced the naysayers. The world's most valuable technology company posted another round of record-setting quarterly earnings Tuesday, even as [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER In the bloody, lawless gang brawl that is the modern smartphone market, Google Inc.'s Android operating system is quickly becoming the weapon of [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD The Lookahead: April 23 - 27 / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Apple Inc. reports its second-quarter earnings this week, at a time when the most valuable technology [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD SOCIAL MEDIA At around the same time Robert Wilkinson was becoming an Internet celebrity, a computer algorithm was busy analyzing his singing voice - making sure [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Folio: Social media / LINKAGE TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Even the White House probably didn't see it coming. Thanks to the overnight and largely unforeseeable success of a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE SOCIAL NEXT-WORK If there's one constant in the chaotic technology industry, it's that nobody stays on top for long. When News Corp. purchased MySpace in [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD INTERNET UPRISING The World Wide Web is going to feel a lot less wide on Wednesday. For a span of 12 hours, some of the Internet's [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY LAS VEGAS and TORONTO -- At a trade-show booth bathed in electric blue light, Research In Motion Ltd. staff in BlackBerry shirts [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD FOLIO: #2011: THE YEAR OF SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The genesis of Occupy Wall Street can be traced back to a group of Canadian activists and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY / REVIEW TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The Kindle Fire is a poor man's iPad, in more ways than one. Amazon's new tablet, released this November to much [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / SEMICONDUCTORS Mosaid Technologies Inc., one of Canada's biggest patent-licensing firms, is set to be acquired by a U.S.-based private equity [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY Research In Motion Ltd. has delayed a key update to a its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, a setback that risks putting the Canadian [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and SUSAN KRASHINSKY THE BLACKBERRY OUTAGES / TECHNOLOGY Research In Motion Ltd.'s last remaining stronghold has been shaken. A major technical glitch affected BlackBerry service across [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD STEVE JOBS 1955-2011 Henry Ford In some ways, the comparison with the father of the American car industry is correct. Both men designed groundbreaking products - [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW STEVE JOBS: 1955 - 2011 / 'ONE OF THE GREATEST INNOVATORS OF OUR TIME' He cursed out reporters whose stories he didn't like. [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD STEVE JOBS: 1955-2011 TECHNOLOGY REPORTER In billions of song downloads, finger swipes and sleek white headphones, Steve Jobs lives on. The man who brought the world [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER When it was launched this April, the PlayBook tablet computer was supposed to mark a preview of the next stage in Research In [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: SEPT. 12 - 16 / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion will be the centre of attention in the mobile world this week, as [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The only thing Apple is doing poorly is predicting its own success. The world's most valuable technology company has a habit of underestimating [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google Inc.'s attempt to catch up to rival Facebook Inc. in the race for social networking dominance got a boost on Thursday, as [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Research In Motion is betting a punishing year will give way to a renaissance in 2012, when the company unveils its next [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: JULY 11 - 15 / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER All eyes will be on Research In Motion this week, as Canada's most important tech company [...]