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Jostle Names WestJet Cofounder Don Bell Chairman Of Board
0By: Talha Bhatti | April 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian startup Jostle just got a major boost with the inclusion of Don Bell as chairman of the company's board. Bell is co-founder of a successful Canadian airline called WestJet and has been affiliated with Jostle as an investor and director since 2009. Jostle came into the limelight in 2011 at the Launch @ GROW event and received its first i...
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Judges Impose Ban on Email, Texting and Tweeting in Quebec Court Rooms
By: Jeff Stewart | April 16th, 2013 | Gadgets, News, O Canada
When it comes to court rooms, electronics communication is a must during proceedings as reporters use different methods including email, text messaging or tweeting to send information out about what’s going on inside the court room. This enables news channels and news agencies to cover the proceedings in real time, which often causes problems for judges. Therefore, Quebec judges chose to ban ele...
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All Major Carriers in Canada to Release Samsung Galaxy S IV in Black and White from April 27th, Additional Colours to Follow Later
By: Ali Raza | April 16th, 2013 | Android, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Just like people in other parts of the world, Canadians have been eagerly waiting for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S IV also known as a “Life Companion.” Finally Samsung Canada has given the good news through its Twitter account that “The GALAXY S4 begins arriving April 27th. Pre-order it with carriers starting today ...
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Canadian Startup Thalmic Labs Secures More Than $3.7 Million in Pre-Orders for Their Gesture Control Device MYO Armband
By: Jeff Stewart | April 15th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada
Canada-based startup Thalmic Labs has developed a MYO armband that will let you control your favourite tech gadgets along with phones and computers with just a snap of the fingers or waving of the arms. The wearable gesture control technology was developed by 23 years old Stephen Lake and Aaron Grant and 24 year old Matthew Ba...
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Largest BlackBerry Shareholder Prem Watsa is Still Confident About Company’s Future
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry 10 started off well when the Waterloo-based company made it available to customers in Canada and the U.K. last February. Since then BlackBerry has been able to sell more than one million BlackBerry Z10 handsets. It was a remarkable feat for the Canadian manufacturer, as BlackBerry managed to do that in just two mon...
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Canada’s Wireless Industry Facing Major Setback As All Three Small Telecom Carriers Are Looking For Buyers
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadians have always wished for a competitive and fair wireless industry but unfortunately it seems that their wish is not going to be fulfilled because the Dutch owners of Wind Mobile have put the company up for sale. A few weeks after that rumours started swirling in the wireless industry that Canada...
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BlackBerry says All Reports Suggesting Z10 Sales are Poor in US are “False and Misleading”
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry’s stock price witnessed a decline of more than 5 percent on Thursday, April 11th after several analysts claimed that the latest Z10 all-touch smartphone from the Canadian company failed to lure customers in the United States. In fact, analyst Detwiler Fenton has even said that BlackBerry Z10 sales are so poor tha...
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Poor Sales of Z10 in U.S. Cause Share Price of BlackBerry To Drop by More than 5 Percent
By: Jeff Stewart | April 12th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The renewed distrust of analysts with BlackBerry has once again disturbed the upward momentum of its share price and on Thursday, April 11, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer’s stocks saw a big decline of more than 5 percent during trading hours. According to the update, this was the biggest fall in share price that Black...
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Mobilicity, Public Mobile and Wind Mobile Pull Out of CWTA
By: Ali Raza | April 11th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The dispute between the big and small telecom companies of Canada took a new turn on Wednesday, April 10, when the three smaller telecom carriers, Mobilicity, Public Mobile and
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Smartphone Users Unaware of BlackBerry’s Presence in the U.S.
By: Zain Nabi | April 11th, 2013 | Android, Apple, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Since BlackBerry did not include its sales figures of the U.S. smartphone market in its quarterly report launched recently, everybody was keeping their fingers crossed with respect to the response the signature product of the Canadian-based company received in the country, which provides the biggest market. However, there have been some astonishing facts reported in the media, claiming that a majo...
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