Have you ever arrived home from holidays to be shocked to find you’ve run up hundreds and even thousands of dollars in cell phone roaming charges? Emir Aboulhosn has and he decided to do something about it.

Are you a young innovator? Have an idea for The Next Big Thing? A foundation launched recently in Vancouver will offer 10 young Canadians the opportunity to participate in a kind of entrepreneurial boot camp based out of Vancouver’s HootSuite headquarters.

Vancouver's Marc Smith had been an event planner for more than 13 years when he decided it was time for a change. While he was more adept at choosing Chardonnay than creating code, he didn't that stop him from launching a new web-based career.

Gillian Shaw talks to Andrew  D'Souza, chief operating officer at Tophat.com, a company that is transforming ho-hum university lectures into interactive learning sessions. Andrew will be in Vancouver to talk at the GROW Conference, August 14 to 16, about how TopHat.com has been successful in attracting top talent and scaling up to meet fast-growing demand from academic institutions in Canada, the U.S. and around the globe.

Debbie Landa is one of the 350,000 Canadians living and working in the Silicon Valley. The CEO and founder of Dealmaker Media, Debbie is bringing the Silicon Valley to Vancouver in August with her company’s fourth annual GROW Conference, a three-day event bringing together venture capitalists, startups and success stories from both sides of the border.

Vancouver-based start-up Claris Healthcare has created a specialized tablet aimed at helping children and caregivers look after their aging parents. Claris founder Geof Auchinleck joins host Gillian Shaw to talk about the newly released Claris

Canada has become a hotbed of cyber espionage activity, with cybercriminals setting up virtual bases here to host attacks around the globe. The Vancouver Sun’s Gillian Shaw talks to Carl Leonard of Websense about Canada’s increasing role in global cybercrime and what it means for consumers and businesses here.

We teach our kids stranger danger from the time they’re very young. But it’s not so easy to take those lessons to the Internet and it’s an issue parents and families are grappling with as news headlines bring the horrific news of children lured on Facebook or bullied to death by online tormentors.

Google is at the forefront of the trend to wearable computers with its new Google Glass. Phil Wu was among developers who signed up to try out the first version of Glass, selling at $1,500 a pop. Gillian Shaw talks to Phil about his experience so far using Glass. And then they take to the streets of downtown Vancouver for a Google Glass demo and tour that had people stopping to stare.

There has to be a more efficient way to make technology work for us. Gillian Shaw chats with Steve Dotto, a long time geek, who is using technology to master the art of productivity.