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Byline: Omar El Akkad In Gabriel Bump's novel 'The New Naturals,' a disillusioned couple start a utopian commune in an underground bunker. THE NEW NATURALS, by Gabriel Bump Given the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; Special to The Globe and Mail Victory City SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE , 352 PAGES Very early on in Victory City - Salman Rushdie's grand and [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad TERMINATION SHOCKBy Neal Stephenson We open on the queen of the Netherlands crash-landing a private jet on a runway in Waco, Texas, immediately precipitating a massacre [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Author of American War, and a resident of Portland, Ore. In the early hours of Wednesday, the President of the United States stepped before a [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad Lead Omar El Akkad is the author of American War. He lives in Portland, Ore. At the corner of Salmon Street and 3rd Avenue, which this [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Portland, Ore.-based writer and author of American War Just for a moment, ignore the huckster in the centre of the circus. Look, instead, at the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY LAS VEGAS -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER For a glimpse into the future of the world's biggest electronics show, look to a Canadian researcher who's building a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 1.Mobile-device accessories, especially for the iPhone 5 For all the talk about CES as a stage for major new product launches, the show [...]

Byline: PATRICK MARTIN, OMAR EL AKKAD, CAMPBELL CLARK; With reports from Associated Press and Reuters MIDEAST GAZA CITY, CAIRO and OTTAWA -- The promise of a midnight truce in Gaza [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad BUSINESS TICKER / VIDEO A Vancouver start-up based on the audacious strategy of launching high-definition video cameras into space has captured the attention of one of [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Walt Disney Co. has purchased perhaps the biggest science fiction movie franchise of all time, adding to a stable that includes Spider-Man, Mickey [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING Six months ago, Facebook Inc. seemed to have no mobile strategy to speak of, and no way to justify its lofty valuation [...]

Byline: SHANE DINGMAN, OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY SAN JOSE, CALIF. and TORONTO -- Acknowledging there is no one-size-fits-all solution in the mobile industry, Apple Inc. is wading into a product [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER With Apple Inc. dropping down a weight class and Microsoft Corp. entering the ring for the first time, this week marks the closest [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY / EARNINGS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. is learning to be hungry again. Once the dominant force in the smartphone industry, the struggling BlackBerry [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Apple Inc. has gone where no company has ever been before, nearing the $625-billion (U.S.) mark in stock market value amid a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY The social media frenzy has hit a decidedly anti-social reality. Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social network and anchor of the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD The Lookahead: July 23 - 27 / SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER This week, investors will get their closest look yet at exactly how Facebook plans to [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. has posted the most devastating earnings report in its history, announcing a half-billion dollar loss, 5,000 layoffs and yet another [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The Internet is about to undergo a massive - and somewhat bizarre - growth spurt. For decades, most of the world's most popular website [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER It is perhaps the most sophisticated piece of malicious software ever designed - a digital surveillance device so complex it ran on sensitive [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and OMAR EL AKKAD COVER STORY During the height of the world's addiction to the device known as 'the CrackBerry,' it would have been difficult to imagine [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The highest-rated application in the PlayBook app marketplace is called Flashlight. It has no remarkable features - loading it simply brings up a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD REVIEW / THE NEW IPAD Sharper screen By far the biggest improvement in the new iPad is the screen. Whereas it's difficult to tell the iPad [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD PRODUCT REVIEW For almost a year, I've wanted to recommend the BlackBerry PlayBook as the best alternative to Apple's iPad. Now, I finally can. What has [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE RIM SHAKEUP / TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The fight of Thorsten Heins's career rests on the success or failure of a single piece of software. Research [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: JAN. 16 - 20 / EARNINGS Investors will get a good sense of how the tech industry fared in the last quarter of 2011 [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY LAS VEGAS -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The technology industry's biggest annual event kicks off Tuesday with a carnival-like atmosphere and an uncertain future. With more than [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD THE LOOKAHEAD: NOV. 21-25 / COMPUTERS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER After a miserable slump that saw the company oust its third CEO in six years, Hewlett-Packard is looking [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND IAIN MARLOW TORONTO and SAN FRANCISCO -- After a year of stumbles, Jim Balsillie is predicting a turnaround for Research In Motion Ltd. The BlackBerry [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Just a few years ago, Research In Motion Ltd.'s network of servers was a world-beater. The company spent millions of dollars building an [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd.'s co-chief executive officers personally apologized for the worst system failure in the history of BlackBerry smart phones, as RIM [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad your tech If you're looking for a quick explanation of what 'gamification' is, consider it the crack cocaine of social media - in a good and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER As 2011 mercifully winds down for Research In Motion Ltd., investor and analyst sentiment about the company's future has degenerated from pessimistic to [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. posted yet another round of disappointing quarterly earnings, including especially weak shipments of its high-end PlayBook tablet, as competitors [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD AND Kim Mackrael COVER STORY / TECHNOLOGY You might have missed it if you blinked, but there was a moment this month when, for perhaps the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Many Hewlett-Packard Co. investors are asking why the company decided to completely upend its business strategy by putting its personal computer segment up [...]