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BlackBerry Executive Admits “40 Percent [of BB10 apps] are Wrapped Android Applications”
0By: Ali Raza | February 1st, 2013 | Android, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Bringing more than 70,000 apps to their latest BlackBerry 10 platform will be tough for BlackBerry, especially considering the fact that Canadian company has claimed that the 70,000 apps will be specially made for the new platform. However, BlackBerry's efforts have supposedly fallen short in one aspect according to an execut...
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BlackBerry Link Now Available for Download, Syncs Desktop and BB10 Smartphone
By: Ali Raza | February 1st, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry, formally known as Research In Motion, has been very consistent with meeting many of its proposed goals for the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform. One fulfilled promise was the launch of the latest BlackBerry Z10 smartphone on January 30th and making 70,000 apps available on the company's app store known as Blac...
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Toyota Inks Deal with Nokia to put Local Search on Navigation Units for 2014 Models
By: Ali Raza | February 1st, 2013 | Cars, News
The Finnish mobile maker Nokia may be struggling in the smartphone market, but its mapping service division, Location and Commerce, has not let the company down. It has helped the multinational corporation snag another automaker after securing deals with big names like Mercedes, BMW, Hyundai, Volkswagen and more.
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Sierra Wireless Sells AirCard Business for $144 Million to Netgear
By: Jeff Stewart | February 1st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The leading wireless solution provider for machine to machine and mobile broadband apps, Sierra Wireless, has declared that they are selling their AirCard business for $144 million to Netgear, a company that provides innovative products to ISPs, busin...
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Three Ways Canadian Startup Cinemagram is Better than Twitter’s Vine
By: Jeff Stewart | February 1st, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Some time ago Twitter introduced a mobile app called Vine that let people share short videos through the micro-blogging platform. The idea for Vine was quite similar to Montreal-based startup, Cinemagram, wh...
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SaskTel Launching 4G LTE Network In Saskatchewan
By: Talha Bhatti | January 31st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel) will be launching a cutting edge 4G LTE network on Thursday, January 31. The province has double the number of towers for LTE than other networks and the SaskTel service should be 33 percent faster compared to what other providers are offering in the area. For now the new network w...
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Facebook’s Fourth Quarter Earning Reports Show Mobile Zooming Past Web
By: Talha Bhatti | January 31st, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The publicly traded social network, Facebook, recently revealed data about its fourth quarter of 2012. The company impressed with a 40 percent increase in revenue along with an increase in mobile users. The stats presented by the company showed that for the first time in the company's history, users accessing the service through mobile had out...
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Honda Announces Siri Eyes Free Functionality for 2013 Acura RDX / ILX and Accord Models
By: Ali Raza | January 31st, 2013 | Apple, Cars, iOS, News
When Apple revealed Siri Eyes Free for the first time during the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference, the California-based company made it known that it had already signed partnership deals with more than nine automakers to incorporate the technology into their cars. One of these automakers was
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LG’s Smart Televisions and Nexus 4 give Fourth Quarter Earnings a Boost Despite Overall Loss
By: Ali Raza | January 31st, 2013 | Business, News, Smartphones
Unlike fellow South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung, the other consumer giant from Korea, LG, was not able to post impressive earnings during Q4 of the previous year. The second largest electronics corporation in Korea declared a disappointing net loss of $428.96 ...
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ICF Names Two Canadian Cities Among the Top 7 “Intelligent Communities” of 2013
By: Ali Raza | January 31st, 2013 | Living, News, O Canada
Canadians should be extremely pleased to know that two cities made it to the ICF 2013 Top 7 “Intelligent Communities” in the world. The Intelligent Community Forum has just named the top seven communities for the year including Oulu, Finland; Columbus, USA; Stratford, Canada; Taoyuan County, Taiwan; Tallinn, Es...
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