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Amazon To Build Fulfillment Center In Delta, British Columbia, Plan To Create 100 New Jobs
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Amazon has been making moves worldwide to create the foundation for its push further into the tablet market, content delivery and the expansion of its core business. As part of these efforts, the online retailer has announced its plans to open a new facility for Amazon Canada's Fulfillment Services. The new Canadian fulfillment centre will be lo...
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Meet LIFX, the Kickstarter Light Bulb That You Control With Your Smartphone
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
An incredibly innovative Wi-Fi enabled light bulb called LIFX claims with great reason to be ‘the smartest light bulb you’ve ever experienced’. The LED bulb is impressive in a variety of ways ranging from its multiple colours, full Smartphone control and energy efficiency that can allow the bulb to last up to 25 years. The LIFX is created by Australian Phil Bosu...
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Wikipedia Now Offers an eBook Export Feature for Offline Reading
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Living, News
The Wikimedia Foundation, the NFP behind the wonderfully awesome Wikipedia online encyclopaedia announced today that they were enhancing their mobile experience in a major way. According to an official announcement
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Discusses Surface Tablet Pricing
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News, Tablets
Microsoft’s upcoming Surface series of tablets (TQ was on it) is a foray into the unknown for the software giant as they attempt to offer world class hardware in an increasingly competitive industry. Although the d...
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Luxury Retreats Lands $5 Million In Funding from iNovia and Other VCs
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
Online private accommodation booking services have become all the rage lately and VC firms are lining up to fund companies that have a good concept in the sector. Montreal’s Luxury Retreats picked up on the trend early and announced on September 17 that it had secured $5 million from VC’s led by
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TIFF Nexus Demonstrates Interactive Cinema Developed By wallFour
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News, O Canada
Last week TIFF Nexus brought together a group of people to create a panel that would get a glimpse of the future of cinema and gaming. The crowd was seated in a theater where they would watch Renga; an interactive cinema experience developed by the British company wallFour. Renga allow...
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University of Waterloo Offers Velocity Campus Program To Young Entrepreneurs
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The University of Waterloo has developed a residence only program for burgeoning entrepreneurs called VeloCity. The popularity of the project has now seen it morph into the VeloCity Garage and Velocity Campus programs after just one year. Now the entrepreneurship program is aimed at a...
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Bell Puts The 16GB iPhone 5 On Sale For $179.95 With A Three Year Contract
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The iPhone 5 has consumers all over the world in a frenzy and initial sales reports have caused the California based Apple’s stock to hit new highs. When the phone was launched only a week ago the device faced a unprecedented demand, causing the pre-order crowd to be quoted with a 3-4 ...
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Ubisoft Launches Top Of The Line Motion Capture Studio In Toronto
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Toronto is getting a new high tech resident as Ubisoft announced that it is creating a state of the art studio in the Canadian city. Ubisoft already had a presence in the country thanks to its performance capture studio established in Montreal during 2010. The latest news means that the Montreal set up will be wrapped up and the new offices i...
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Staples Cuts Prices for RIM’s 16GB Playbook To $99
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Research In Motion has been in a steep downfall over the past year as the companies iconic BlackBerry smartphone has lost market share to the likes of Apple, Google and Samsung. RIM was not g...
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