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RIM Introduces Patent Phone Feature to Prevent “Inconspicuous” Camera Usage
0By: Jeff Stewart | January 3rd, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
Usually, leaked product images that are not released by companies themselves tend to appear vague or blurry as these are usually taken on the sly with camera phones or in inconspicuous places. Aside from being blurry, such leak photos badly damage the promotion or campaign of an upcoming device, as they spoil the party by revealing products before they release. So far these blurry lea...
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Meet Canadian Startup Quimby aka SnapChat Before SnapChat
By: Jeff Stewart | January 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The multimedia texting app SnapChat made it into the top three apps in the list of iTunes apps soon after the startup was launched. The mobile texting app was able to gain this popularity in a short period of time because of its excellent features. However, the feature that really helped SnapChat reach the top was the one that allows us...
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Research In Motion Sells NewBay for $55 million to Synchronoss Technologies Inc.
By: Jeff Stewart | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RM) seems to be quite busy with the launch of its upcoming flagship device BB10, which is now less than a month away (January 30, 2013). However, the latest update has revealed that the Waterloo-based company is taking care of loads of other things along with their preparations for the launch of BB10. Reports have made it known that RIM has just gi...
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Canada Sees Major Jump In Startup Investment
By: Talha Bhatti | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The global crash of financial markets caused Canadian startup financiers to stop investing in new ventures. In 2008 Canada ended up having the lowest level of venture-capital investment for the past ten years in more than a decade, a trend that continued for the next two years. All that seems to have changed in 2012 with a total of $1.5-billion of VC funding being pumped into startup firms located...
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Ooomf Goes Public With Its ‘Launch This Year’ Website To Help People Build Apps
By: Talha Bhatti | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Ooomf is an app discovery platform which wants to help its users solve their biggest mobile-app related challenges. The Canadian startup’s CEO, Mikael Cho, has spent a year investigating what problems users face and is ready to unveil LaunchThisYear.com. The site will help both new and ...
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BlackBerry 10 Gets A Promotional Bump Through Major League Baseball
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Major League Baseball has not officially announced their association with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 from Research in Motion but on Thursday, December 28 users of the MLB.com website received an email that had a teaser promotion for BlackBerry 10. The email did not contain any thing new about the...
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Mobile Tech Startup PumpUp Launches App That Builds High Quality Customised Workout Plans
By: Jeff Stewart | January 1st, 2013 | Apple, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Achieving fitness goals is not an easy task as usually the majority of the people start searching for shortcuts a few days after following a fitness regime because either they fail to discipline themselves or do not succeed in managing their timetable. Others remain unsuccessful in running that extra 2 kilometres distance or shed an additional 20 pounds of fat. Therefore, to motivate ...
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Canadian Wireless Providers Look To Pre-Paid Services For Subscriber Growth
By: Talha Bhatti | January 1st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian wireless providers are renewing their efforts to upgrade pay-as-you-go services in the country to attract young consumers because the demographic is thought to be the reason behind subscriber growth rates. Providers like Telus are expecting prepaid to be a key part of the next phase of growth in the sector. The prepaid marke...
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Google Sends Round of Nexus 4 Shipping Notifications to Canadians
By: Ali Raza | December 31st, 2012 | Android, Google, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Google’s Nexus 4 has became a rare commodity in Canada, as the first round of its units in the country got sold out soon after its launch. Now Canadians are eagerly waiting for the second shipment of this device. Earlier some of those who had ordered...
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Leaked Images of BlackBerry QWERTY/Touch Smartphone Featuring Fist Look at the BB10 OS
By: 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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