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Meet Canadian Startup Quimby aka SnapChat Before SnapChat
0By: Jeff Stewart | January 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The multimedia texting app SnapChat made it into the top three apps in the list of iTunes apps soon after the startup was launched. The mobile texting app was able to gain this popularity in a short period of time because of its excellent features. However, the feature that really helped SnapChat reach the top was the one that allows us...
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Ooomf Goes Public With Its ‘Launch This Year’ Website To Help People Build Apps
By: Talha Bhatti | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Ooomf is an app discovery platform which wants to help its users solve their biggest mobile-app related challenges. The Canadian startup’s CEO, Mikael Cho, has spent a year investigating what problems users face and is ready to unveil LaunchThisYear.com. The site will help both new and ...
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Samsung Teases Fans Image of a Translucent Portrait Style TV for CES 2013
By: Jeff Stewart | January 2nd, 2013 | Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Less than a week remains before the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, but reports revealing different products that are to be featured have not stopped emerging thus far. As of late Samsung has teased its fans with an image of a new smart TV platform on its Samsung Tomorrow blog. ...
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Instagram Launches Global Photostream For New Year Eve
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Instagram wants to make the New Years celebrations extra special for their users and has created a desktop-optimized New Year's Eve photo stream. The feature will document the count down to the new years by putting all the images of their users in one place on the photo-sharing social network. The photo-stream was detailed in a blog post on...
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BlackBerry 10 Gets A Promotional Bump Through Major League Baseball
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Major League Baseball has not officially announced their association with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 from Research in Motion but on Thursday, December 28 users of the MLB.com website received an email that had a teaser promotion for BlackBerry 10. The email did not contain any thing new about the...
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Mobile Tech Startup PumpUp Launches App That Builds High Quality Customised Workout Plans
By: Jeff Stewart | January 1st, 2013 | Apple, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Achieving fitness goals is not an easy task as usually the majority of the people start searching for shortcuts a few days after following a fitness regime because either they fail to discipline themselves or do not succeed in managing their timetable. Others remain unsuccessful in running that extra 2 kilometres distance or shed an additional 20 pounds of fat. Therefore, to motivate ...
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Storm8 Sees 2 Million Mobile Game Downloads on Christmas Day
By: Talha Bhatti | January 1st, 2013 | Business, Games, Mobile Apps
Mobile app developer Storm8 had a great Christmas this year as the company saw 2 million downloads of its games in one day. The holiday has become a big day for game developers thanks to strong sales of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. When users unwrap their new presents on Christmas they tend to hop on line and download applicat...
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Chinese Courts Orders Apple To Compensate Local Authors With $165,000
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Apple received instructions from a Chinese court to pay eight Chinese writers and two companies 1.03 million yuan or $165,000 U.S. because the California company’s online store was allegedly selling their content without a license. The order was passed in the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court and it stated that the maker of...
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Instagram Unveils Most-Photographed Sites of 2012
By: Jeff Stewart | December 29th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The popular mobile photo sharing social network Instagram has finally revealed the list of the most-photographed sites in the world. Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport was ranked as the top posted photo on Instagram which is instersting since the city also has the most number of Facebook users than any other place in the world. Su...
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Leaked BB10 Slides Reveal New BBM Video Chat And Screen Sharing Along With Task Manager
By: Ali Raza | December 29th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
As the launch of Research In Motion’s Blackberry 10 platform draws near the flow of leaked images has also picked up. The latest additions to this pile are a few more new slides that have provided users a sneak peek of the new screen sharing and video chat features of Blackberry Messenger (BBM).
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