WATERLOO, ON, Feb. 10 /CNW/ - RDM Corporation (TSX: RC), a leading developer of specialized software and hardware products for electronic payment processing, today reported its financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2005.
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Improved economic expectations and investment climate return consumer confidence to upward trend, according to RBC CASH Index

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 - After beginning 2006 on a down note, consumer confidence rebounded in February, resuming the positive trend that began in October of 2005, according to the most recent results of the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index, which measured the attitudes of 1,000 Americans this week. Issued today by RBC Financial Group, the RBC CASH Index for February stands at 96.1, a considerable increase from 78.2 in January - and also significantly above the February 2005 level of 79.1.
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Some of Canada’s leading journalists, authors and media executives, including Pamela Wallin, Gwynne Dyer and Scott Griffin, will be at the University of Guelph Feb. 22 to take part in a public dialogue on the role of the media in a changing global community.
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QUEEN'S PARK, Feb. 9 - Ontario's large industrial electricity consumers will benefit from three years of stable, predictable pricing on electricity provided by Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Minister of Energy Donna Cansfield announced.
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Canada's wind energy industry shatters growth records in 2005 - 2006 promises more than double the growth seen in 2005

OTTAWA, Feb. 10 - Canada's wind energy industry installed 239 MW of new wind energy capacity in 2005, shattering the previous annual installation record of 122 MW established in 2004. As a result, Canada's total installed wind energy capacity grew by 54% in 2005 and now stands at 683 MW.
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A Review of the company's 2005 Financial Results

TORONTO, Feb. 9 /CNW/ - Ontario Power Generation's 2005 Financial Results will be available for review on the company's website:(http://www.opg.com) at 12:00 noon today Friday, February 10.

TORONTO, Feb. 9 - Manulife Financial Corporation today reported 2005 shareholders' net income of $3,294 million, an increase of 29 per cent over 2004. Earnings per share were $4.11, 13 per cent higher than the $3.65 reported a year ago. Premiums and deposits increased 22 per cent over last year to a record $61.5 billion driven by strong organic growth and four additional months of contribution from John Hancock
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The World Bank boosted its forecast for China's economic growth this year from 8.7 percent to 9.2 percent on Thursday following an economic census that prompted Beijing to sharply increase the official size of its economy, reports The Associated Press.
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New EU States' Growth Firm But Reforms Lag - World Bank

New EU members from Central and Eastern Europe chalked up brisk economic growth in the last quarter of 2005, largely unhindered by a slow pace of reform and high energy prices, the World Bank said on Thursday, reports Reuters.
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The World Bank said it is working with its UN partners to swiftly approve programs to combat the spread of bird flu with newly committed donor funds, reports Reuters.
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Energy Concerns To Take Center Stage At G8 Finance Meeting

The fragile fate of the world's energy supply and distribution chain is likely to take center stage at an upcoming meeting in Moscow of G8 finance ministers, overshadowing their traditional debate on economic growth and currency fluctuations, reports Agence France Presse.
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It has been written off as wristband idealism, but last year's "Make Poverty History" campaign mobilized a generation of politically active young people, according to a survey for Oxfam, reports The Guardian (UK).
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The past 30 years have seen tremendous growth in the United States in productivity and wealth, and yet we don’t seem very appreciative for what we have. In fact, Americans’ assessment of their level of happiness is declining significantly, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1957, 53 percent of Americans considered themselves “very happy.” By the early 1970s, only 34 percent expressed such satisfaction. Late in the 1990s, the number had dropped all the way down to 30 percent.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA- - Alberta tops all the provinces and the federal government for its overall fiscal performance, according to the Fraser Institute's annual Fiscal Performance Index, released today.

The Fiscal Performance Index measures the performance of the federal and provincial governments on twenty indicators of taxation, spending, and deficits and debt over the past five years (2000/01 to 2004/05). The Index also includes an overall fiscal performance score.
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SlipStream Data Debuts Fastest Mobile Data Accelerator

WATERLOO, ON, CANADA - February 7, 2006 - SlipStream Data Inc., a leading, global provider of data acceleration software today announced the launch of SlipStream MSP, the fastest acceleration, data compression and network optimization solution.
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Toyota to Raise Output by 50% at New Ontario Factory

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's second-biggest carmaker, said it will enlarge the second factory it's building in Canada to expand the production capacity by 50 percent to meet expected sales growth in North America.
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Kitchener CMA (Waterloo Region) has lowest Bankruptcy rate amoung Peers

The London free Press stated yesterday that "London's personal bankruptcy rate falls again as national and Ontario rates rise." It reported that new federal statistics "show personal bankruptcies and proposals edged up 1.2 per cent in Canada in 2005.
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Exports from Canada’s Technology Triangle Continue to Grow – Region Outpaces Provincial and National Levels

Canada’s Technology Triangle, Waterloo Region, February 7, 2006 …Waterloo Region has long been regarded as an “export powerhouse,” fueled by regional economic diversity and strategic access to markets, facilitating the flow of goods. According to a new study prepared for CTT Inc by Community Benchmarks
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KITCHENER — Students at the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College will have more teachers, learning resources and other supports due to $14,038,425 in additional funding from the McGuinty government’s new Quality Improvement Fund, John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre announced today on behalf of the Honourable Chris Bentley, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.
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Travel arrangement services - 2004

Travel arrangement services rebounded in 2004 after facing difficulties such as the threat of SARS and the war in Iraq in 2003.
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Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday lauched a new 1-GB iPod nano, priced at $149.
The new iPod nano is distinctive in the company's device lineup for its ultrathin design, which Apple boasts is thinner than a pencil.
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WOODSTOCK, ON, Feb. 7 - Toyota said today that annual production capacity will increase to 150,000 RAV4 sport utility vehicles at a plant under construction here. Total employment will reach about 2,000 and the total investment will grow to about C$1.1 billion/US$950 million.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. February 6, 2006 —Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), one of 14 Ontario universities and colleges on the growing Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) grid, has chosen technology from Silicon Graphics for computational sciences, including mathematical modeling, nanotechnology, biology, quantum physics, chemistry, and a wide variety of scientific research projects.
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WATERLOO, - DALSA Corporation, an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company, announced today organizational changes to its operations and the appointment of Brian Doody to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Under the new structure, Mr. Doody will be responsible for overseeing all of the Company's internal operations, including both the Digital Imaging and Semiconductor businesses
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Feb. 6 Bloomberg -- Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge said the global economy may stall or suffer recessions unless global imbalances such as the record U.S. current-account deficit are corrected.
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NEW YORK Reuters - Ontario will likely have to keep burning coal to generate electricity beyond the planned 2007-2009 retirement of its coal-fired power plants for reliability reasons, the province's grid operator said in a report Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO Reuters - A wireless communications start-up in Spain that is partly a grass-roots social movement seeking to encourage users to share Internet access with their neighbours is set to announce on Monday $21.7 million (12 million pounds) in funding from big name backers, such as Skype Technologies and Google.
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Voices: Dropping calculus

Guelph, ON. -- February 6, 2006 -- The FirstKart.com race team will once again head south for the second round of Formula Kart's Florida Winter Tour. With three race wins in the first round of the series, the FirstKart.com race team will look to better that result this coming weekend at Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, FL.
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KITCHENER— Waterloo Region will receive an additional $6.17 million to help meet its transportation funding needs under the second year of the McGuinty government’s gas tax funding program, John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre announced today on behalf of the Minister of Transportation, the Honourable Harinder Takhar.
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WATERLOO -Feb. 6, 2006--Research In Motion today announced it is extending its relationship with Sony Ericsson to bring BlackBerry(R) connectivity to the new Sony Ericsson P990 and M600 phones. The P990 and M600 are based on the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 platform.
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TORONTO Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced the company has completed another year of growth marked by widespread customer adoption. Despite the market trend toward BI tool consolidation, Information Builders continues to thrive as WebFOCUS was selected over other leading BI applications to be the enterprise standard of choice for companies such as Lloyd's of London, Hillerick & Bradsby, Pierre Foods, University of North Carolina, and Winn Dixie.
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LONDON, Feb. 6 - Arrow Therapeutics, the London based antiviral drug discovery and development company, has announced that its lead Hepatitis C compound has entered full preclinical development.
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A comic strip based on unique research by a University of Guelph professor has been selected for inclusion in a collection of the finest comics in North America.
“I’m delighted that it’s included,” said Terisa Turner of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The graphic narrative titled Nakedness and Power will appear in the inaugural edition of Best American Comics 2006, to be published by Boston-based Houghton and Mifflin later this year.
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Scientists have developed an early-warning system for the outbreak of malaria epidemics. They claim that the system, which is based on computer models of climate change, can predict outbreaks up to five months in advance, reports The Guardian (UK).
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