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Interest is booming in the use of mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone for image viewing applications. But that excitement may be dampened somewhat with a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to classify an iPhone image viewing application as a class III device requiring premarket approval.

Exhibit celebrates insulin, Toronto's gift to the world It has been 90 years since a group of Toronto researchers discovered insulin. The breakthrough, made in the sweltering summer days of 1921, has saved the lives of millions of people around the world. A new exhibit to commemorate the discovery opened Wednesday in the MaRS Centre.

Dr. Hossein Rahnama who is known for his groundbreaking work in context-aware and cloud computing platforms has been recognized as part of MIT's Technology Review magazine's 2012 list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35. Dr. Hossein Rahnama founded Flybits, which is a spin-off of Ryerson University and is supported by Digital Media Zone and MaRS Innovation.

Toronto startup and MaRS client Guardly announces that it has entered into a partnership with the California Association of REALTORS (C.A.R.) to provide a smartphone app that helps real estate agents stay safe on the job.

MaRS Discovery District is expanding. MaRS' Phase 2 development will be completed in 2013. Don Duval, Vice President of Advisory Services states " Our mandate is to work with early stage ventures and help these companies grow ... The program's success, he says, is measured by "the amount of jobs and wealth our companies notable successes.

Dr John Semple helped to created an app that is being in the healthcare industry in Canada for diagnoses. Peter Adams, senior health-care IT adviser, MaRS Discovery District, describs "Dr. Semple's app as the "tip of the iceberg," ... technology and others like it are capable of saving the health-care system millions in unnecessary hospital readmissions, needless suffering and potential deaths."

Jon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates spoke at the MobileMonday Toronto event, Feb 6 at the MaRS Centre regarding the outlook for wireless.

InGamer Sports, a MaRS Client, has developed an innovative technology that takes fantasy-league sports players from "being general managers to being head coaches." According to Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer, the company launched "in partnership with The Hockey News and the NHLPA May 27 in time for game one of the Stanley Cup Finals -- does so by allowing gamers to interact with the games in real-time, while they are being played, using their computer or mobile device, and to interact with other gamers at the same time through social media apps."

Frustrated with pressing multiple times on your phone before you can get to the right person at the company you are trying to reach? Fonolo.com can help you get around all of that. BNN interviews Shai Berger, CEO and co-founder, fonolo.com Sept 18, 2009

Frustrated with pressing multiple times on your phone before you can get to the right person at the company you are trying to reach? Fonolo.com can help you get around all of that. BNN interviews Shai Berger, CEO and co-founder, fonolo.com Sept 18, 2009

MaRS celebrates its first anniversary. Judy Steed, Toronto Star Reporter, caputures some of the people, ideas and developments in commercializing leading edge research at the MaRS Centre.

MaRS celebrates its first anniversary. Judy Steed, Toronto Star Reporter, caputures some of the people, ideas and developments in commercializing leading edge research at the MaRS Centre. Sept 26, 2006

Net Change, June 8-12 presented by SiG@MaRS is a week-long event designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change.

Apple Inc.'s App Store features 70,000 applications for download. How can individual app developers stand out in such a big crowd? According to a researcher at the MaRS Centre in Toronto, patience is the name of the game.

Net Change, a week dedicated to exploring this intersection between social technology and social change. Lisa Torjman's interview with CP24's "Homepage."

Chris Atachison from the Globe and Mail reveals how Octane Medical Group, a biotechnology firm that makes regenerative medical products, analyzed an astronaut's health problem which led to their discover on how to help him med.

MaRS Innovation (a sister company of MaRS Discovery District) brokers a deal between scientists at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Sanofi-Pasteur Canada. The product helps wounds heal more quickly -- potentially benefiting diabetics whose wounds tend to reopen. It's an example of how commercialization of medical technologies is moving from lab to real health outcomes.

MobileMonday Toronto-Women in Wireless event will happen at the MaRS Centre on October 3.