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RIM Gets US Government FIPS PUB 140-2 Certification Before Release of Black Berry 10
0By: Kevin Green | November 10th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian technology giant, Research In Motion (RIM), stated on November 8 that the company had successfully received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification for their highly awaited BlackBerry 10 platform. The government issued security clearance means that departments in the US as well as the Canadi...
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PayPal Strongly Negates Rogers and CIBC Claim of Performing First Mobile Credit Card Payment
By: Ali Raza | November 9th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Earlier this week we had told you that Canadian wireless provider Rogers in association with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) introduced a digital payment app for mobile transactions by the name of "suretap”. According to Rogers, it was the first transaction of its kind; a pay...
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Rogers Canada Introduces New Attractive Cellular Plans for Their Customers
By: Ali Raza | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Today telecom companies in Canada are enjoying decent customer bases as the number of cell phone users in the country are increasing rapidly. Thanks to the new generation of smartphones, demand is stronger than it has ever been for data plans. The telecom companies in the country also understand this fact and as result, they had also upgraded their networks to provide fast services to their custom...
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Research In Motion Shares Drop Sharply After Analyst Predicts BB10 Will Be Dead on Arrival
By: Talha Bhatti | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
James Faucette, a Pacific Crest analyst, has put a dent in the slight recovery Research In Motion stock has made over the past few weeks after he stated that the Canadian firms upcoming Operating System, BlackBerry 10, would be Dead on Arrival. After the report, RIM’s stocks took a shar...
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Apple’s iPad Mini and 4th Generation iPad Set New Sales Record – 3 Million Units in 3 Days
By: Ali Raza | November 8th, 2012 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Tablets
Analysts were anticipating that Apple’s iPad Mini and 4th generation iPad would be greeted quite warmly by tablet and Apple fans, but very few if any could have predicted the number of units that actually moved this past weekend. According to the latest announcement from Apple, the company sold 3 million iPads in just three days, which by m...
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Toronto Based Firms Dominate CIX Top 20 for 2012
By: Talha Bhatti | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Every year the Canadian Innovation Exchange reveals its picks for the CIX top 20 and this year it did so on November 6. The list is a compilation of the 20 best digital media, information and communication technology firms wo...
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Novel Written on a Blackberry MemoPad App Earns British Woman a Publishing Contract
By: Ali Raza | November 8th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
To write a story, novel or book, an author always requires true motivation and inspiration that propels them towards a finished product they can be proud of. In Georgina Campbell’s case, her Blackberry device also became and remained a tool for inspiration. Campbell managed to hammer out 55, 600 words on her RIM...
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Netflix Accounts for an Impressive 33% of Peak Internet Traffic Across North America
By: Talha Bhatti | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
A report from Sandvine, an internet traffic-management systems developer, states that popular streaming video site Netflix uses up one-third of all peak internet traffic in North America. This is not the only intriguing piece of data from the research study and more insights include the cl...
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Canadian Trio Create Ubiquitous Computer That is Voice Controlled to do Chores and Monitor Homes
By: Talha Bhatti | November 8th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Most homes have at least one desktop computer or laptop and the number of devices are multiplying with smartphones and tablets also making their way into many tech savvy households. In most cases these devices are used for checking email, working on school projects and surfing the web. Even though they have incredible computing power, these devices have yet to computerize homes.
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Appclick Canada Introduces New Set of Cloud-Based Apps for Small and Medium Size Businesses
By: Jeff Stewart | November 7th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
According to the latest reports, a San Matero, California based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Marketplace called SaaS Markets has launched a new app store that offers over 1,300 cloud-based apps to medium and small size businesses in Canada. The name of this app store is Appclick Canada an...
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