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eQuibbly Offers Users Fast, Cheap And Social Dispute Resolution
0By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Toronto based eQuibbly is a startup that has developed a unique way to resolve disputes. Lance Soskin is the founder of the web site and also happens to be a lawyer and investment banker turned entrepreneur. Soskin developed eQuibbly to serve as an online forum that allows two parties to resolve disputes by posting their problem in a private ...
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LarkLife Bracelet Tracks Sleep, Diet and Exercise to Help Users Live Better
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Gadgets, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, Smartphones
The Lark bracelet was first introduced as a sleep-tracking device and a vibrating alarm. The company has upgraded its product and on October 8 launched their brand new product - Larklife. The bracelet has been designed to track all activities one does during the day...
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Canadian Startup Launches Mobile App Strut Type To Create Vintage Pictures
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Instagram has made the vintage picture a fad that has swept the mobile world. Other apps like Camera+ offer filters to give images the old fashioned look that many people crave. One Canadian company has developed an app that will give images a truly vintage look as opposed to the fake filter that other apps offer today.
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Microsoft Sends Out Invites to Windows 8 And Windows Phone 8 Events
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
When it comes to product announcements and launches, Apple rules the roost with its suspense filled invitations and genre changing products. Over the years Microsoft’s product announcements have been more straight forward and vanilla than competitors and do not have the glitz and glamour of other technology firms. However, this may be a ref...
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Google Maps API Gets Live Traffic Data As Service Reaches 800,000 Active User Mark
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Google, Mobile Apps, News
The much publicized issues with iOS6 Maps have given Google’s Map service a boost. The U.S. based search giant has capitalized the opportunity to promote its own maps service and recently announced that 800,000 websites and mobile apps are utilizing the Google Maps API to make their products more interactive and useful. Google felt that the mi...
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RIM Sets Up Tech Center In UK To Help Developers Port Apps To BB10
By: Talha Bhatti | October 8th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research in Motion (RIM) recently opened a Tech Center at its United Kingdom headquarters in Slough. Journalists and media personel were invited into the Tech Center to get a look at what the makers of BlackBerry have been working on for their upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. CrackBerry ...
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HOW TO: Canadians Can Add Passbook in iOS 6 to Their Starbucks App [Workaround]
By: Kuljit Grewal | October 7th, 2012 | Apple, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Late last week, Starbucks announced the highly anticipated integration of Passbook functionality into their iOS app. Unfortunately for those of us north of the U.S. border, the Canadian version of their app did not receive the same upgrade treatment, a bummer to say the least. Thanks to the good people at
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Canadian Startup TagMyDoc Uses QR Codes To Innovate Document Sharing
By: Kevin Green | October 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
TagMyDoc, a Canada based startup, is offering users the ability to use 2D tags or QR Codes as they are more commonly known to share and collaborate on documents. Users can now utilize the popular tags to share documents they have stored in DropBox, ...
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Chamath Palihapitiya Invests $20 Million Into Toronto Based Xtreme Labs
By: Talha Bhatti | October 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Venture Capitalists are always looking for opportunities to invest in technologies that will be important in the years to come. Many of these investment mavens have realized that mobile is the wave of the present and future however getting their hands on top developers in the mobile space is tough. The competition is so fierce that Chamath Palihapitiya has put $20 million of his own money into Tor...
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11-Year-Old Developer Wins $20,000 for Anti Texting While Driving App
By: Talha Bhatti | October 1st, 2012 | Android, Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
AT&T is doing its part to reduce accidents and fatalities caused by people texting while driving by creating a mobile app to stop the illegal and dangerous activity. As part of its campaign, the American telecom giant also allowed participants at a Los Angeles hackathon to develop their own apps to solve the problem and announced a cash prize ...
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