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TIFF Nexus Demonstrates Interactive Cinema Developed By wallFour
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News, O Canada
Last week TIFF Nexus brought together a group of people to create a panel that would get a glimpse of the future of cinema and gaming. The crowd was seated in a theater where they would watch Renga; an interactive cinema experience developed by the British company wallFour. Renga allow...
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More Than Half Of Canadian Wireless Customers Own Smartphones
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Google, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Business analytics firm comScore revealed at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show on September 13 that 54% of Canadians are smartphone owners. comScore had a list of other statistics about the mobile marketplace in Canada that shed some light on the sector and confirmed some analyst theories. Many outsiders had predicted the Canada...
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University of Waterloo Offers Velocity Campus Program To Young Entrepreneurs
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The University of Waterloo has developed a residence only program for burgeoning entrepreneurs called VeloCity. The popularity of the project has now seen it morph into the VeloCity Garage and Velocity Campus programs after just one year. Now the entrepreneurship program is aimed at a...
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BBM To Be Included In Latest Collins English Dictionary
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The plummeting stock price of Research In Motion (RIM) may indicate to many on Bay Street that the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone may be heading down the road to irrelevance in the competitive sector. However, the RIM has gotten a vote of confidence from an unexpected institution: The Dictionary. It has recently been revealed that the word BBM...
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Bell Puts The 16GB iPhone 5 On Sale For $179.95 With A Three Year Contract
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The iPhone 5 has consumers all over the world in a frenzy and initial sales reports have caused the California based Apple’s stock to hit new highs. When the phone was launched only a week ago the device faced a unprecedented demand, causing the pre-order crowd to be quoted with a 3-4 ...
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Ubisoft Launches Top Of The Line Motion Capture Studio In Toronto
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Toronto is getting a new high tech resident as Ubisoft announced that it is creating a state of the art studio in the Canadian city. Ubisoft already had a presence in the country thanks to its performance capture studio established in Montreal during 2010. The latest news means that the Montreal set up will be wrapped up and the new offices i...
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Staples Cuts Prices for RIM’s 16GB Playbook To $99
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Research In Motion has been in a steep downfall over the past year as the companies iconic BlackBerry smartphone has lost market share to the likes of Apple, Google and Samsung. RIM was not g...
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Canada Based Tagga Media And airG Reveal Strategic Partnership
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian firms, airG and Tagga, formally announced to the media on September 10 that the Vancouver based firms would be entering into a strategic partnership “to leverage the strength of each other’s products as well as partner on mutually beneficial marketing initiatives.” T...
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Wavefront And Rogers Launch Wireless Innovation Center In Vancouver
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On September 13 Rogers Communications and Wavefront cut the ribbon to inaugurate their latest Wireless Innovation Centre in the Canadian city of Vancouver. This will be Rogers' second such set up with the first one located in Montreal and plans on the books to get a third one started in...
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Canada’s Competition Bureau Sues Wireless Giants Over Premium Text Services
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian wireless providers Rogers, Telus and Bell and an industry association are being slapped with a lawsuit by the Competition Bureau. The Canadian regulatory authority alleges...
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