Gail Balfour

Eighteen months and $2 million has transformed P.E.I.

It all started out simply enough, or so you thought. Your company needed an Internet presence, so you slapped up a Web site. But after a while it just seemed to sit there, so you gradually added some graphics, maybe a few way-cool animations, some streaming video perhaps, or some thumbnails that optimized to higher resolution photos when clicked upon.

Consultant Loren Hicks sees himself as a risk-taker who thrives on uncertainty. And he

Eighteen months and $2 million has transformed P.E.I.

Consultant Loren Hicks sees himself as a risk-taker who thrives on uncertainty. And he's had several careers...

A faster supercomputer - 1,000 times more powerful than Deep Blue and about 2 million times faster...

Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft Corp.'s largest evaluation program ever, featuring more than 600,000 beta tests, has come to a close...