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Love Documentaries? Watch Them in Full Effect on the iPhone Thanks to This App
0By: Kuljit Grewal | September 30th, 2012 | Apple, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps
Documentary streaming website Documentary.net announced the release of an iOS app that allows the same functionality and viewing quality as the company’s free website. Boasting over 500 documentaries and non-fiction works...
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RIM Showcases Hub, Peek and Flow Features Of BlackBerry 10
By: Kevin Green | September 29th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry Jam from Research In Motion (RIM) is underway and the Canadian firm is making sure that it is keeping app developers in the loop about its latest BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM demonstrated some of the newest features and capabilities of BB10 that the Waterloo ba...
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comScore Reports That Instagram Got More Mobile Visitors Than Twitter In August
By: Talha Bhatti | September 28th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Twitter was delivered some bad news thanks to a mobile measurement from Canadian firm comScore which statedthat smartphone users in the U.S. visited Instagram more often and for a longer period of time than Twitter. The report was for the of August and was the first time that social network Instagram surpassed micro-blogging site Twitter in mobile visitors. comScore mentioned that 7.3...
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Mobile Print and Scan App For iOS and BlackBerry Launched By Canon Canada
By: Kevin Green | September 27th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Every day more and more business professionals are storing data and files on their smartphones. This allows them flexibility and ease of use in the increasingly mobile workplace. Canon Canada has identified a growing need for busy people to connect to printers with their mobile devices and has released a mobile printing app for
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Rogers Looks to Launch Digital Wallets and Virtual Credit Cards
By: Talha Bhatti | September 26th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The Canadian Telecommunication giant, Rogers, has made public plans to launch a virtual wallet that will contain a credit card. The news confirms the continued push into the mobile payments category for the Canadian Wireless service provider. Nadir Mohamed, CEO for Rogers, gave a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal and then spok...
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Poynt Updates Local Search App for iPhone to Increase iOS User Base
By: Talha Bhatti | September 26th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Business, Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Calgary based technology firm Poynt launched an upgraded version of its iPhone app last week for the iOS platform. Poynt is a local search tool that is intended to be accessed from smartphones to provide the user with results based on their location. Poynt had initial success with Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry platform but the declining ...
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Guardly Mobile App Launched At OCAD University In Toronto
By: Talha Bhatti | September 25th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Toronto based art and design institute, OCAD University, has started offering its students the ‘Guardly Safe Campus’ mobile app for free. The safety tool escorts students around campus as a piece of software on their phone and lets the user to get in touch with campus security and other personnel during an emergency or other potentially danger...
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Canadian Firm Offers Mobile Property Protection With New App
By: Talha Bhatti | September 25th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Security.ca is a Canadian security solution provider based in Ottawa that is using mobile technology to open up new markets. The firm has developed an automated inspection tool that is installed on a client's smartphone and then used to scan square QR codes. This will prompt the mobile app to bring up a check list relating to the item that has bee...
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OMERS Ventures Was Part of Wattpad’s $17.3 Million Series B Round of Funding
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 23rd, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Wattpad is a disruptive community based website where users share and collaborate on electronic texts in eBook format. The company has grown to impressive proportions since its inception in 2006 earning an incredible 10 million individual monthly users who spend a cumulative 2.4 billion minutes on the site. Those numbers came from a strong ide...
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Facebook Testing New Ad Network For Off Site Ad Placement
By: Talha Bhatti | September 22nd, 2012 | Android, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
After Facebook’s disappointing IPO and stock activity since, the company has been looking at ways to bring in some positive news and help increase its share prices. One of the problems that the company is trying to tackle is its revenue generation from ads and focusing on its underutilized mobile customer base.
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