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Despite Decent Sales of Lumia Devices Nokia Still Posts a Loss of Roughly $196 Million
0By: Ali Raza | April 18th, 2013 | Business, News, Smartphones
The Finnish mobile maker Nokia has announced its first quarter results for 2013 on Thursday, April 18th. The company has posted a loss of €150 million which is roughly $196 million. Total sales of the Lumia handset maker were €5.8 billion ($7.6 billion) in the last quarter. An interesting thing about Nokia’s quarterly...
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Samsung Inks Multi-Year Deal with Audio Component Supplier Wolfson for Future Devices
By: Jeff Stewart | April 18th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News, Smartphones, Tablets
To keep ahead of the competition Samsung has introduced several outstanding devices over the years such as Galaxy Note II phablet. To produce these stunning devices the South Korean smartphone maker has signed a number of deals with various high quality component manufacturers. The latest deal from Samsung will help the company ...
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Amazon to Make Appstore for Android Available in Canada Along with Several New Countries
By: Jeff Stewart | April 18th, 2013 | Android, Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Tablets
In December Amazon rolled out the Kindle eReader for Canadians but at that time a majority of the people in the country wanted to buy the Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon still has not fulfilled their wish but the multinational corporation has given them something new to cheer about. Amazon has announced on Wednesday, April 17th that...
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Canadian Startup Flee Launching App To Redefine Travel Booking
By: Talha Bhatti | April 17th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Flee is a Canadian startup that is using its app tp try and redefine the way users make travel bookings. Co-founders Byron Hawes and Zeïna Belouizdad are definitely doing something right because they have been selected to join the JOLT Accelerator at MaRS business incubator. Flee will now be getting free co-working space, some seed capital ...
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Halifax The Last Stop For Cross-Country BlackBerry Jam Starter Sessions
By: Talha Bhatti | April 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian technology giant BlackBerry has invested a lot of time and resources into the release of its new BlackBerry 10 platform and since it was released in February of 2013 the company has put every effort into making the product a success. The former smartphone leader has so far launched BB10 in 20 countries and expanded the app store to ...
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Ontario-Based Startup Fusebill Successfully Secures $2 Million in Funding Round Led by Covington Capital and Omers Ventures
By: Ali Raza | April 17th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Ontario-based startup Fusebill offers payment solutions and automated billing for subscription based companies. The Canadian startup has successfully secured $2 million from Covington Capital and ...
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Jostle Names WestJet Cofounder Don Bell Chairman Of Board
By: Talha Bhatti | April 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian startup Jostle just got a major boost with the inclusion of Don Bell as chairman of the company's board. Bell is co-founder of a successful Canadian airline called WestJet and has been affiliated with Jostle as an investor and director since 2009. Jostle came into the limelight in 2011 at the Launch @ GROW event and received its first i...
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Foxconn Hires More Staff as Production of iPhone 5S Ramps Up – Report
By: Jeff Stewart | April 16th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
A source familiar with Foxconn operational plans has told Bloomberg that Apple had given a green signal to the Hon Hai Precision to add more workers at its Zhengzhou plant, which indicates that perhaps the production of the next iPhone and inexpensive version o...
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All Major Carriers in Canada to Release Samsung Galaxy S IV in Black and White from April 27th, Additional Colours to Follow Later
By: Ali Raza | April 16th, 2013 | Android, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Just like people in other parts of the world, Canadians have been eagerly waiting for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S IV also known as a “Life Companion.” Finally Samsung Canada has given the good news through its Twitter account that “The GALAXY S4 begins arriving April 27th. Pre-order it with carriers starting today ...
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Canadian Startup Thalmic Labs Secures More Than $3.7 Million in Pre-Orders for Their Gesture Control Device MYO Armband
By: Jeff Stewart | April 15th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada
Canada-based startup Thalmic Labs has developed a MYO armband that will let you control your favourite tech gadgets along with phones and computers with just a snap of the fingers or waving of the arms. The wearable gesture control technology was developed by 23 years old Stephen Lake and Aaron Grant and 24 year old Matthew Ba...
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