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Apple’s Hotly Anticipated New iPhone Should Feature a Thinner Screen
0By: Kuljit Grewal | July 17th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
According to various online sources, one of which is the Wall Street Journal (via Apple Insider), Apple’s latest iPhone incarnation should have a substantially thinner screen that those found in current generations. The new screen will use what is known as in...
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iOS 6 Will Feature a More Interactive Twitter App
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 16th, 2012 | Apple, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Social Media
Social media giant Twitter will have some tricks up its sleeve for the highly anticipated iOS 6 platform. The word comes courtesy of 9to5 Mac. According to the leaked release notes, Twitter for iPhone 4.3 will feature a plethora of changes to make the overall e...
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Opus Hotel Vancouver Becomes the First iPhone Integrated Hotel in the World
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 16th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
In the Yaletown area of Vancouver, there is a forward thinking hotel that is aggressively integrating Apple technology into their customer experience. After becoming the first hotel to feature an iPad 2 in every one of their rooms, the boutique hotel, Opus has decided to step it up a notch with iPhones being placed in all of their rooms as well. The iPhones will replace the standard h...
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How Do Canadians Feel About Going Cashless? The Results May Surprise You
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 16th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
According to a telling survey conducted by Leger Marketing on behalf of PayPal Canada, the majority of our nation’s citizens would be completely comfortable never having to handle any cash in order to make their purchases again. The results of the online survey, conducted between May 28 – M...
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RIM Suffers Costly U.S. Patent Lawsuit Loss, Must Pay $147M
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 15th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
RIM executives may understand the meaning behind the saying “when it rains, it pours” better than anyone can imagine thanks to a disastrous financial quarter.. Canada’s once upon a time beacon of technology have been asked to pony up a substantial $147 million as part of a patent lawsuit in California. The news could not come at a worse time for the BlackBerry maker, as word of massive job c...
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Siri Eyes Free Aims to Make Driving Safer
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 15th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Cars, News, Smartphones
At Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) held last month, the world’s most valuable company announced a wide range of features for the new iOS 6, one of which had very little to do with your actual phone experience. The aforementioned feature is known as Siri Eyes Free and its chief aim is to make a safer and more interactive driving experience thanks to Apple’s...
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Uber Toronto Has Added SUVs to Their Private Driver Repretoire
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 14th, 2012 | Business, Cars, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones
San Francisco based private driver service Uber was co-founded by a Canadian named Garrett Camp (of StumbleUpon fame), and had recently added Toronto to the list of 11 cities that it services. The company, which provides an on demand private driver service, ordered using Smartphones ...
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Could the iPhone 5 be Announced Soon?
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 13th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Apple’s hotly anticipated sixth generation iPhone may be available in the very near future according to some buzz permeating throughout the mobile tech blogosphere. It is highly possible that the Cupertino based company might be in a rush to bring their phone to market due to the success and widespread acclaim for the Samsung Galaxy S III, which released in Canada last month. Accord...
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Perfect Storm Causes RIM Shares to Plunge Nearly 18 per cent
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 9th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
RIM CEO Thorstein Heis announced that his company’s swing for the fences, theBB10 platform and updated smartphone line up will be delayed until the 2013 calendar year late last month. The fact that RIM elected to use a strategy that relied on their in-house knowledge rather than collaborate with another player in the Smartphone industry is looking more and more like the incorrect choice. The Wat...
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Samsung S III Owners in Canada to Receive 50 GB Cloud Storage from Dropbox
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 6th, 2012 | Android, Google, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian mobile users with friends south of the border know very well that the rates we pay for our mobile devices are criminally higher than those offered by American telcos. Unfortunately, this piece is not a grand proclamation that our rates are dropping to the levels of AT&T and Verizon (we can keep hoping). Those however who have a keen interest in acquiring the Samsung Galaxy S III sho...
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