TORONTO - Fluid Music Canada Inc. (TSX:FMN) is being sued by PFH Investments Ltd. over a debenture dispute.

Fluid Music, which handles distribution of unsigned and relatively unknown musicians through online platforms, said Tuesday that PFH is seeking to reinstate a debenture which was repurchased in June from the proceeds of the company's initial public offering of stock.

PFH is also seeking unspecified damages.

Fluid said that it is talking to lawyers about its options.

BOSTON - Parents, don't put away those video games just yet - today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon.

Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools - from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons.

One study even looked at whether playing "World of Warcraft," the world's biggest multiplayer online game, can improve scientific thinking.

LOS ANGELES - Gamers with a hankering to watch music videos will have more choices after Warner Music Group Corp. announced Thursday it is adding its library of videos to Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console.

Videos from Sony BMG, which sell for the equivalent of US$1.99, have been offered on the Xbox since last December.

Microsoft's game division is in talks with other major labels, such as Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and EMI Group PLC, to add their music videos to the service offered to 12 million users of Xbox Live.

MONTREAL - Wi-Fi "hot spots" help make the Web more accessible for laptop users and this wireless technology is moving to smartphones and other consumer devices.

There are thousands of these so-called hot spots in North America and Europe, often in airport lounges, fast-food restaurants, coffee shops, malls and hotels. It's either free or there's a user fee.

"Wi-Fi helps make the Internet more accessible to people," said Stan Schatt of New York-based ABI Research, which tracks emerging technologies.

TORONTO—It boasts the power of 30,000 desktop computers, the storage capacity of 625,000 iPhones or a million DVDs, and has the ability to process 360 trillion calculations a second.
Canada’s largest supercomputer—a mammoth IBM-built data system—will be housed in a Vaughan, Ont. warehouse and assist with in-depth research at the University of Toronto and several research hospitals.
The still-unnamed supercomputer will enable ground-breaking research in fields including aerospace, biophysics, climate change prediction, and medical imaging, the university announced yesterday.

NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. is riding the wave of location-based services with the launch of a service intended to help users share their real-world location with their friends online.

Yahoo made Fire Eagle available to the public this week. Previously, the service had been available in a private "beta" test since March.

MONTREAL - Cellphones are still for yakking, no matter how many things they can do.

Despite also being equipped to let people watch videos, listen to music, surf the Internet and check e-mail, mobile phones are primarily used for conversations, U.S. analyst Ramon Llamas said Thursday.

"I look at a lot of Joe and Jane consumers on main street anywhere and a lot of them are pretty content with just a regular cellphone," said Llamas of the global research firm IDC, which tracks consumer technology markets.

MONTREAL - Wi-Fi "hot spots" help make the Web more accessible for laptop users and this wireless technology is moving to smartphones and other consumer devices.

There are thousands of these so-called hot spots in North America and Europe, often in airport lounges, fast-food restaurants, coffee shops, malls and hotels. It's either free or there's a user fee.

"Wi-Fi helps make the Internet more accessible to people," said Stan Schatt of New York-based ABI Research, which tracks emerging technologies.

When Electronic Arts announced the retired Brett Favre as its 20th anniversary cover boy, it looked like the notorious "Madden" curse - which had mangled the careers of Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb and Shaun Alexander - was finally broken.

But when Favre decided to play again and was traded from the Packers to the New York Jets, it looked like the Curse simply reversed onto EA itself.

NEW YORK - On her blog, 12-year-old Tavi Gevinson posts photos of herself wielding a toilet plunger, posing in a room covered with newsprint and wearing a paint-splattered tutu inspired by Dolce & Gabbana's spring 2008 collection.

She's part of a young generation of fashion bloggers who display pictures of their outfits for all to see.

"Well I am new here," she wrote March 31 in her first post at Style Rookie. "Lately I've been really interested in fashion, and I like to make binders and slideshows of 'high-fashion' modeling and designs."