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Rovio Collaborates With CERN to Gets Kids Excited About Science
0By: Talha Bhatti | October 16th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Rovio, the company behind the global hit iPhone app Angry Birds and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are partnering up to develop “fun learning experiences” for children that will attract young kids to the wonderful world of science. The two organizations m...
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Canada Based Startup TitanFile Secures $1.1 Million Financing
By: Ali Raza | October 15th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Canada based start-up TitanFile has developed a system that is used for the secure transfer of classified data over various devices. The promising company recently declared that they have secured $1.1 million in financing from several investors to fuel future growth. With this giant leap, TitanFile will soon be available to users, allowing ...
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Lockitron Founders Grateful to Kickstarter for Crowdfunding Concept
By: Jeff Stewart | October 13th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Kickstarter has done a great job of setting itself apart as a platform that provides a way to get crowdfunding for creative projects. Lockitron founders Paul Gerhardt and Cameron Robertson were very excited about using Kickstarter to get funding for their own hardware oriente...
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Openera Becomes the “Most Anticipated Early Stage Startup in Canada”
By: Jeff Stewart | October 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
When unprepared Peter Lalonde pitched the idea for his start-up Openera at the Canadian Digital Media Network’s Canada 3.0 conference last April, he never thought his idea would win. The quality of his idea prevailed however, as the entrepreneur ended up winning even though he was a last minute ...
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MindMeld Looking to Give Google Now and Siri a Run for Their Money
By: Ali Raza | October 13th, 2012 | Apple, Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Google Now and Siri will soon have a new competitor after Tim Tuttle introduces his latest iPad application called MindMeld. The application is expected to be available in the fall and is taking...
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NYU Doctoral Student Showcases Hand Gesture Technology For Touch Screen Authentication
By: Kevin Green | October 13th, 2012 | Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
A Polytechnic Institute of New York University researcher, Napa Sae-Bae, has been studying ways to utilize a person’s hand gestures and swipes on a touch sreen device to authenticate user access. Sae-Bae’s work should enable devices to secure their data and the physical device itself by recognizing authorized users swipes thanks to their uniq...
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Report Indicates That 60% Of iPhone Owners In Canada and US Have Upgraded To iOS 6
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Apple has a hit on its hands with the new iPhone 5 and iOS 6 tandem. The hardware and software were released at about the same time and have taken the market in the US and Canada by storm. Reports indicates that after two weeks of being available for download, 60% of iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada updated their devices to iOS 6. The positive...
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Canadian Twitter Users Upbeat About the Future of Research In Motion
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canada based maker of BlackBerry smartphones, Research in Motion (RIM), has been in the news a lot lately and most of the headlines have been pointing at the upcoming release of the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM gave the world a glimpse of the BB10 at their developer’s conference called Blackberry Jam 2012. The presentatio...
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Canadian Accelerator Extreme Startups Takes On Five New Companies
By: Ali Raza | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
On October 5, 2012 the Toronto-based accelerator, Extreme Startups announced that it had chosen the second batch of companies, five in all, that will be taking part in their start-up accelerator program. In the next couple of months the start-ups will participate in the incubator program and its many prepratory activ...
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Glooko Launches Smartphone Diabetic Logbook App And Connector Cable In Canada
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
As of October 4, Canada officially has the Glooko Logbook app and Glooko MeterSync Cable for Apple’s iOS. Glooko offers an innovative solution for diabetics by giving users the ability to use their smartphone as a simple and effective logbook. Glooko will be demonstrating their solution at the Canadian Diabetes Association conference taking place...
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