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Microsoft Announces CityNext Initiative to Empower Citizens, Businesses and Cities
0By: Jeff Stewart | July 19th, 2013 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
The creator of popular Windows software, Microsoft, is always looking to inspire its users by offering them creative solutions for problems through its software. The Redmond-based company runs its business in the same fashion and Microsoft believes that its core business units will give excellent potential...
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Amazon Publishing Announces Launch of Jet City Comics
By: Jeff Stewart | July 19th, 2013 | Business, News
Amazon Publishing launched Jet City Comics, a fresh product that will focus on graphic novels and comics, starting on Tuesday, July 9th. Amazon Publishing also made it known that issues of Jet City will also be published on Kindle “as standalone comics, as serialized comics released over multiple episodes, and as bundled graphi...
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Mozilla Releases Firefox OS-Based Devices in Spain, Soon to Hit Other Countries
By: Jeff Stewart | July 19th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Mozilla, the creator of popular of web browser Firefox, has been working on an OS for mobile devices for roughly two years and finally the company officially launched its low-cost Firefox OS-based devices in stores on Tuesday, July 9th. The first batch of Firefox-based devices reached Telefonica in Spain last week. The Sp...
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Google Introduces Updated Maps App for Android Users With iOS Update Expected Soon
By: Jeff Stewart | July 19th, 2013 | Google, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Search engine giant Google launched its updated Maps service two months ago at the IO event and on Wednesday, July 10th the company announced that it has rolled out a new edition of its
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T-Mobile to Release Sony Xperia Z on July 17th for $100 With Two Year Contract
By: Jeff Stewart | July 18th, 2013 | Android, Business, News, Smartphones
Rumours had been making the rounds for a long time now that T-Mobile would soon carry Sony’s flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z. These rumours eventually turned out to be true when back in June, T-Mobile officially made it known that the carrier will be exclu...
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Nokia Makes Yahoo-Powered Chat Beta App Available for All Lumia Device Users
By: Ali Raza | July 18th, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Nokia declared on Tuesday, July 9th that it has made the Yahoo-powered Nokia Chat beta messaging app available for download for all Lumia device users. In addition to this, the Finnish manufacturer also made it known that for the first time it has introduc...
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BlackBerry to Face Harsh Questions About Poor Q2 Earnings from Shareholders in Annual Meeting
By: Ali Raza | July 18th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
After posting better earnings in the first quarter of 2013, BlackBerry proved to be a grave disappointment for its shareholders, as the Canadian smartphone maker posted terrible earnings in the second quarter of this year. The QWERTY smartphone manufacturer posted revenue of $3.1 billion and a loss of $84 million. As a result...
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Taiwan Based Site Claims Apple will Launch iPad 5 in September
By: Ali Raza | July 18th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, Tablets
Quoting industry sources, a Taiwanese site has claimed that Apple has scheduled the launch of its 9.7-inch iPad 5 in September this year. The fifth generation 9.7-inch iPad from Apple might have a scheduled date of release in September because it is expected that there will not be any major specs upgrades in the new tablet from th...
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Survey Suggests South Koreans Prefer Apple’s iPhone Over Samsung Galaxy Handsets
By: Jeff Stewart | July 18th, 2013 | Android, Apple, News
According to The Telegraph, a recent survey has shown that South Koreans prefer Apple’s iPhone instead of home grown Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The report also divulged that the survey was conducted on 44,168 people, who were between the age of 16 to 64 and a...
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Chinese Firm Drags Apple to Court for Infringing On Patents Claiming Siri is Copy of Voice Assistant Software
By: Jeff Stewart | July 18th, 2013 | Apple, iOS, News
Apple previously filed a law suit against arch rival Samsung in which the iOS device maker claimed that the Korean company copied its Siri technology and thus infringed on its copyrights. The tech giant may soon be getting a taste of its own medicine, as Ch...
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