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Starbucks – Square is Choosing Its Friends Wisely
0By: Kuljit Grewal | August 8th, 2012 | Business, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Mobile payment start-up Square has just taken a monumental leap towards the mainstream, linking up with coffee giant Starbucks, as announced by the San Francisco company’s website. According to the partnership, Square will process all of the debit and credit card transactions for 7,000 US Starbucks locations, resulting in ser...
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Apple’s iOS 6 Will Not Include a Native YouTube App as Google is Working on Their Own Version
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 8th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Google, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, the device has featured a standalone YouTube app allowing the device’s users to access the boundless videos available on the popular website. It seems however with today’s release of Apple’s iOS 6 beta 4 that the YouTube app is no longer part of the operating systems default option. Considering t...
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Canada is Going Mobile for Their Olympic Coverage
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 7th, 2012 | Business, Living, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media, Sports, Tablets
Without question we in Canada are absolutely blessed to be able to enjoy the Olympics in full totality thanks to the resources that technology makes available to us. Mobile devices have literally put full entertainment systems in our hands, allowing us to consume coverage spanning from Twitter to live streaming video. Perhaps there is no greater testament to how much technology can ch...
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Meet Nina, Siri’s App-tastic Cousin
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 7th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Business, Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
For all the hype (and slight disappointment) that surrounded Apple’s iPhone 4S, the biggest upgrade for fans of the device and brand overall was Siri; the voice activation/personal assistant that was a celebrated game changer. One of the major limitations surrounding Siri’s application is that although one is able to book...
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Canada’s Acquisio Acquires ScienceOps and New Funding
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 7th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Brossard, Quebec based company Acquisio announced today that they had acquired software development firm ScienceOps, thereby expanding their product offering. Acquisio offers clients a performance media platform which allows them to manage and monitor a plethora of media around the internet i...
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Facebook is Testing a ‘Save for Later’ Feature for its Users
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The world’s largest social networking website is testing a new feature that will allow its users to save stories and other content that appears on their News Feed and friends’ walls for later consumption.
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Mobile Game Developer TinyCo Chooses Vancouver to Expand Game Development
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 6th, 2012 | Business, Games, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Although news has been less than stellar for Canada’s largest west coast city and its game programming residents (TQ was on it), it seems as though not all stories have been bad ones. TinyCo, a San Francisco based mobile ...
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Europe Based Peer to Peer Property Rental Company 9flats Acquires Toronto’s iStopOver
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Companies such as the Y Combinator backed Airbnb have seen a great deal of success in offering services that unite those with rental properties with those who are looking for non-hotel short term accommodations. Since Airbnb launched its service in 2007, several similar services have popped up both in Euro...
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RIM Continues its Reductions
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 5th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
When things aren't going well for a company, every opportunity to cut costs without affecting the core businesses is to be considered. RIM, who have seen their reputation, sales and stock prices drop dramatically have had to consider several strategic and operational options in order to survive. Other than cutting staff, which RIM has stated they wi...
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Ford’s SYNC System Will Soon Warn Drivers of Pollen Counts and Other Allergens
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 5th, 2012 | Business, Cars, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
We at TQ are big fans of automobiles as well as disruptive technologies, so anytime there is cross over we are enthralled. Recently we read about how Ford Motor Company, who have literally reinvented themselves as an innovative maker of quality cars have planned on improving the integration and capabilities of their in-car infotainment system dubbed
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