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Leaked Images of BlackBerry QWERTY/Touch Smartphone Featuring Fist Look at the BB10 OS
0By: Ali Raza | December 31st, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
Lately, many of you have seen the leaked information regarding Research In Motion’s alleged QWERTY/Touch smartphone that emerged on the scene following months of speculation and slow dripping spec informati...
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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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Yahoo Shuts Off Service In South Korea On December 31
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, News
Yahoo entered South Korea fifteen years ago and has now exiting the country on December 31 according to reports from Yonhap News Agency. The exact date of the move from the U.S. based technology company was announced at th...
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Canadian Startup SpaceList Looking To Make Commercial Leasing Easier
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Bill MacEwen came up with the idea for his startup SpaceList after he spent some time in Vancouver looking for a venue to start a co-working space. The Canadian entrepreneur spoke with TechVibes about the experience, saying that, “I walked all of downtown Vancouver like a grid ... making note of every 'for lease' sign I saw. Meeting with broker...
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FCC Passes Mystery BlackBerry 10 Powered Device With LTE Support
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Before any smartphone can make it on to the market in North America the devices have to go through a rigorous inspection from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). History has shown that when the FCC clears a smartphone for release it inadvertently ends up giving away internal specifications that have not been made public. The FCC has lived...
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Two Canadian Government Computers’ Security Breached By Hacker
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | News, O Canada
It was recently revealed that two Canadian government computers were being accessed by a hacker for days before the security threat was reported to Shared Services Canada by a “trusted source”. After the breach of security was uncovered the Public Works and Government Services Canada computers underwent a forensic analysis. The security report that was filed after investigation revealed that t...
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Samsung Planning to Build New Sales and R&D Centre On 1.1 Million Square Foot Area In Silicon Valley
By: Jeff Stewart | December 29th, 2012 | News
Apple's planned 1 million square foot Spaceship like head quarters in California made headlines several weeks ago and now its Samsung’s turn to grab the attention with its gleaming, extravagant and stylish 1.1 million square foot office space that the South Korean electronics manufacture...
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YouTube Removes Fraudulent Views From Prominent Channels Except VEVO
By: Ali Raza | December 29th, 2012 | Google, News
YouTube did some end of year cleaning as it removed bot views from channels so that the fraudulent views did not count towards a video total. The fraudulent views were taken away from prominent channels that belong to RCA Records, Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. In addition to this, a lot of music-related content that was not properly licensed or ...
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Samsung Requests ITC To Impose U.S. Import And Sales Ban On Several Ericsson Products
By: Jeff Stewart | December 29th, 2012 | Business, News
The patent war between the South Korean electronics giant Samsung and one of the biggest telecom manufacturers of Sweden, Ericsson, has escalated further after maker of the Galaxy SIII smartphone filed a complaint with U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose U.S. import and sal...
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Amazon and Google Expected To Clash In More Sectors In 2013
By: Jeff Stewart | December 29th, 2012 | Android, Business, Google, News, Smartphones, Tablets
The Amazon and Google rivalry is expected to escalate further as we step in 2013 because both technology companies are set to meet each other head on in more sectors including cloud computing, ecommerce, hardware and advertising. Google earns a majority of its income from online a...
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