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Acer Announces $500 Iconia W510 To Be Released In Early Novemeber
0By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, News, Tablets
Acer has been announcing its latest devices right before the Christmas season and the Iconia W700 tablet with its Intel Ivy Bridge processor will be released on November 9. The $800 tablet weighs 2.3 pound and may be a suitable replacement for an ultrabook instead of a tablet. The latest release from Acer, the Iconia W510,...
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Researchers For Microsoft Develop Motion Tracking And Control Device For Wrist
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Gadgets, News
Microsoft’s Kinect was a cool innovation and its motion tracking and controls added a dimension to video games that was not possible before. However, the technology is still relatively young and companies like Microsoft are looking at ways to make the devices smaller and more intuitive. That is why researchers for the technology giant have ...
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RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Running Out At U.S. Online Retailers
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Tablets
Research In Motion (RIM) has not put out a new product for quite some time and the Canadian manufacturer is not expected to release its BlackBerry 10 operating system and devices until the beginning of next year. All that is available in the market are older versions of BlackBerry smartphones and the
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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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Samsung Smashes Quarterly Profit Records Thanks To Strong Galaxy SIII Sales
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Business, News, Smartphones
South Korean electronics manufacturer, Samsung, has recently reported quarterly profits of $7.3 billion. The statement was made on Friday, October 5th and marks the fourth straight quarter of record earnings for the global leader in mobile devices. Samsung managed to double their profit from the same time last year and the latest rep...
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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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Rumours Indicate Google and LG to Release New Nexus Phone In November
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Business, News, Smartphones
The critical Christmas shopping season has become a battlefield for smartphone manufacturers and many have timed their new device releases to coincide with the holiday season. Apple has already released its super hot iPhone 5 and other manufacturers like Nokia and HTC are expected to release their offerings soon. Of course the rumor mills are running on full blast and news of the latest devices is...
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Toronto Based Tunezy Using Crowd Funding to Give Recording Artists Alternatives to Large Record Labels
By: Kevin Green | October 9th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The music industry has been going through a consistent decline for many years and the onslaught of piracy and newer digital delivery models have all but destroyed the traditional method of doing business. Record labels are seeing their revenues fall significantly and companies are either going belly up or are being acquired to form larger firms with larger collections of assets. These mega compani...
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CNET Reports That Google and Samsung Developing Larger Tablet To Take On Apple’s iPad
By: Kevin Green | October 9th, 2012 | Android, Gadgets, Google, News, Tablets
Technology news source CNET has reported that Google and Samsung are working on the Nexus 10 which will be a larger tablet similar in size to the the iPad. The report says that the device will be a 10.1-inch tablet and will be the up market version of the recently relea...
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