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BlackBerry Expected to Release New 4G LTE Capable PlayBook Soon
0By: Kuljit Grewal | July 26th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
According to an internal document at Bell Canada, BlackBerry will introduce a device July 31, 2012 that will have full 4G LTE capability. Although this post is the result of a Bell document, we fully expect PlayBooks to be made available from other carriers as well. According to the aforementioned document, the new 7” device has a listed price of $549.95. It features 1GB RAM, a 1.5 ...
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Payment Platform Braintree is Coming to Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 26th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Wildly popular e-commerce and m-commerce payment platform Braintree, is expanding their services internationally. The overall expansion will span 30 countries including Canada, Australia and the UK among others. Braintree offers simple and effective mobile and online payment solutions for over 2000 companies including start-ups like
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RIM’s Playbook Video Store Makes Its Way Back Home to Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 25th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Tablets
RIM’s Playbook Video Store is now available in the company’s home country. Having been only available for U.S. PlayBook owners, RIM announced the Canadian version of the application today. Available for download in the BlackBerry App World, the Store offe...
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Taking a Bite Out of Apple’s Q3 Results
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 25th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Although 26 million iPhones and 17 million iPads sounds like a lot of units, Apple fell victim to their own success when they were unable to meet analysts’ incredibly lofty sales estimates. The company reported $35 billion in revenues for the months of April to June along with $8.8 billion in net profit ($9.32 per diluted share). Revenue was expected to be $37.25 billion, but hey, nobody is perf...
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WORD IS: The iPad Mini Will Launch in September Following Next Gen iPhone
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 24th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Tablets
According to several sources across the web, Apple will be launching their highly anticipated iPad Mini in late September of this year. The launch will bat clean up behind the most anticipated release of the year, Apple’s new iPhone 5 earlier that month. The iPad Mini is the 7.85” version of the world’s most popular tablet. Offering a smaller, more travel friendly product, Apple...
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Amazon is Tapping Into Canada’s Population to Develop Their Tablet Browser Silk
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Amazon Web Services recently held an event in Vancouver targeting Canada’s West Coast to add to their workforce. Web Services along with the team working on Amazon’s ambitious tablet web browser known as Silk will be hiring aggressively in order to grow their Vancouver workforce and gain more ground on Apple and And...
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Canadians Can Now Store Movies on Their iCloud Accouts
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 23rd, 2012 | Apple, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
For those Canadians with multiple Apple devices, take some time to rejoice. Apple recently announced that they would be allowing their users in 38 countries including Canada and the UK to store and access movies purchased on iTunes on the iCloud. This will allow Canadians to watch films and TV shows of their choosing on their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac devices. This extends what ...
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Microsoft is Thinking Big – Acquires Large Sized Tablet Developer Perceptive Pixel
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 20th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News, Tablets
It has been an incredibly busy month for Microsoft. The Brand That Bill Built not only announced their new operating system and platform Windows 8, but they also introduced the spectacular Microsoft Surface tablet PC to well-deserved fan fair. Althoug...
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BlackBerry App World Reaches 3 Billion Downloads
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 19th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Although 2012 has felt like the end of the world for RIM, perhaps the company and their leadership were taught to look for silver linings in even the darkest of storms. The company recently had reason to celebrate, as their BlackBerry App World reached 3 billion downloads earlier this month. All in all, it has t...
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You Won’t Believe What Canada’s Second Most Popular Tablet Is
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Although the iPad is still the head honcho of the tablet world, Canadians as a whole have warmed up to the rest of the field to some degree. To be fair, a lot of this has to do with the competitors catching up to Apple and introducing excellent devices of their own, the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity and Google Nexus 7 to name a couple. Incredibly though, the competitor who has managed to strangle...
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