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Canada’s Porter Airlines Launches Passbook Ready Tickets
2By: Kevin Green | September 29th, 2012 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
iOS 6 quickly followed the release of the iPhone 5 and one of its significant changes saw Apple include its new digital wallet called Passbook. Many first movers have already integrated their businesses with the feature, allowing their users the opportunity to take advantage of Apple’s attempt at changing the sector. Passbook is an application...
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comScore Reports That Instagram Got More Mobile Visitors Than Twitter In August
By: Talha Bhatti | September 28th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Twitter was delivered some bad news thanks to a mobile measurement from Canadian firm comScore which statedthat smartphone users in the U.S. visited Instagram more often and for a longer period of time than Twitter. The report was for the of August and was the first time that social network Instagram surpassed micro-blogging site Twitter in mobile visitors. comScore mentioned that 7.3...
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Samsung To Host Galaxy Note 2 Launch Party In NYC
By: Talha Bhatti | September 28th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Samsung will be looking to make the most of the upcoming shopping season announcing yesterday that they will be holding a launch party for the Galaxy Note II in New York on October 24. The Korean electronics manufacturer had already announced at IFA Berlin that the device was making its way to Canada and the U.S. sometime soon, but the laun...
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Apple Looking for Another $707 Million From Samsung for Patent Infringement
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 27th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Smartphones
According to Reuters, Apple Inc. continues to be hell bent on squeezing every dollar it possibly can from Korean tech giant Samsung regarding patent infringements. The Cupertino based company has asked for a court order requesting the permanent ban of Samsung products that have been de...
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70% Of Canadian Firms Have No BYOD Policy
By: Talha Bhatti | September 27th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
The rapid acceptance of mobile devices by the general population has seen smartphones and tablets making their way into the work place. In most cases, employers that wish their employees to stay connected with the office at critical periods of work issue their employee specific devices or allow them to keep certain devices that meet certain requirements. The latest trend that is sweeping many comp...
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Mobile Print and Scan App For iOS and BlackBerry Launched By Canon Canada
By: Kevin Green | September 27th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Every day more and more business professionals are storing data and files on their smartphones. This allows them flexibility and ease of use in the increasingly mobile workplace. Canon Canada has identified a growing need for busy people to connect to printers with their mobile devices and has released a mobile printing app for
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BLiNQ Networks Raises $10 Million To Grow Mobile Backhaul Business
By: Kevin Green | September 27th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Ottawa based BLiNQ Networks Inc develops next-generation intelligent wireless backhaul solutions. Last week, the company recently announced that on September 19 they had secured $10 million in equity funding. BLiNQ hopes to put the money to good use by using it to expand its business footprint globally. A large bulk of the cash will also ...
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Rogers Looks to Launch Digital Wallets and Virtual Credit Cards
By: Talha Bhatti | September 26th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The Canadian Telecommunication giant, Rogers, has made public plans to launch a virtual wallet that will contain a credit card. The news confirms the continued push into the mobile payments category for the Canadian Wireless service provider. Nadir Mohamed, CEO for Rogers, gave a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal and then spok...
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Rogers Releasing Canada’s Fastest Smartphone In November
By: Talha Bhatti | September 26th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Gadget junkies in Canada can now rejoice as Rogers is offering the country’s fastest smartphone starting November. In collaboration with LG, Rogers announced that a one of a kind 2600 MHz version of the LG Optimus G would be ready for sale right in time for Christmas. ...
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Shuts Down Factory After Massive Brawl Between Thousands of Workers and Police
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 26th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
The integral smartphone and tablet supplier to the industry’s most influential players, Foxconn has a well-documented history of employee suicide and sub-standard working and living conditions. The absolutely massive company is known to house up to 400,000 staff in dormitories as they work high pressure and monotonous line work day in and da...
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