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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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Zynga Inc., the world's biggest developer of Facebook games, has gained a foothold in Toronto's booming technology community with the purchase of mobile-apps [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD CRIME A slew of recent hacking incidents - including attacks on Sony, Fox News, Barack Obama's re-election website and many others, as well as the News [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY Research In Motion Ltd. is starting to bend to its critics. Caught in a months-long cycle of bad news - including profit warnings, product delays, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Cisco Systems Inc. is launching a tablet it hopes will be as successful in the business market as Apple's iPad is in the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE / RESEARCH IN MOTION LTD. For the second time, a shareholder advisory firm is calling on Research In Motion Ltd. to change the relationship [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and OMAR EL AKKAD RESEARCH IN MOTION / STRATEGY The most telling aspect of Research In Motion Ltd.'s recent conference call was the amount of time its [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD HIGH TECHNOLOGY A few of the biggest headlines in the tech industry this week will come from the biggest of the tech titans - Apple Inc. [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY KITCHENER, ONT. -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google Inc. unveiled its new Kitchener-Waterloo offices to the public, completing the transformation of what was once a tiny corporate [...]

Byline: Omar el Akkad DAYBOOK / MAY 18 The milestone Google unveils its new Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., headquarters to the public on Wednesday, marking an important milestone in the company's relationship [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: APRIL 18 - 22 / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The mobile gadget industry will dominate investor chatter this week, and not just because Research In [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD COVER STORY WATERLOO, ONT. -- Mike Lazaridis, the brain behind the BlackBerry, is staring intently out a window inside RIM 10, a squat, unprepossessing structure on [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. has turned to a long-time Canadian collaborator to develop dozens of exclusive applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook in a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TABLETS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER In its quest to keep pace with the Apple juggernaut, Research In Motion Ltd. is trying a new approach: it's throwing in its [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. is about to embark on a new chapter, but it's off to a rocky start. The Waterloo-based wireless device [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: MARCH 21 - 25 / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Geeks, rejoice. The second generation of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet comes to Canada this Friday. As [...]

Byline: OMAR EL-AKKAD; With files from Associated Press TECHNOLOGY The company behind the best-selling handheld video-game devices is now hoping to recreate that success in 3D. Nintendo will release the [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad SAN FRANCISCO -- Steve Jobs, on medical leave for serious health issues that have put in doubt his future as Apple Inc. 's top executive, appeared [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google Inc.'s search for new talent is so urgent, the company's own chief financial officer is giving a recruitment pitch. 'Please tell Canadians [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google is growing up, and so are the men who created it. Once the Web's fastest-growing upstart, the search giant faces increasing competition [...]

TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Apple Inc. has once again posted the best quarterly earnings in its history - at least partially deflecting attention from CEO Steve Jobs' announcement that he will [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD 11 FOR '11 THEMES THAT WILL DOMINATE THE YEAR / NO. 11: APPLE'S FUTURE TECHNOLOGY REPORTER It's as long-shot a proposition as there is in the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW LAS VEGAS -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER This year's surprise success story at the Consumer Electronics Show wasn't a tablet company or an application developer, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY / CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW LAS VEGAS -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The most important technology showcase in the world kicks off Thursday in Las Vegas, as somewhere [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND IAIN MARLOW BLACKBERRY V. APPLE SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO -- In the fight of its life, Research In Motion is moving up a weight class. [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd., facing increasingly intense competition, is proving to be a stubborn fighter. Canada's biggest technology firm posted record second-quarter profits [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER As Research In Motion Ltd. faces an increasingly public dispute with several countries over the ability to monitor communication on its BlackBerry devices, [...]