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Report says US Department of Defence is Purchasing 650,000 Apple Devices to Replace Aging BlackBerry Devices
0By: Ali Raza | March 22nd, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Electronista has reported that the US Department of Defence is looking to purchase 650,000 Apple devices as a “part of its mobile testing program,” according to iPhoneinCanada. Here are the exact words from Electronista report: “We were told that the breakdown was 120,000 iPads, 100,000 iPad minis, 200,000 iPod touches, and ...
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No Fake Projects Take Place at Apple to Test the Loyalty of New Hires says Ex-Manager
By: Ali Raza | March 22nd, 2013 | Apple, iOS, News
Don Melton, a former manager at Apple who had played a vital role in developing the popular Safari web browser for iOS devices, has once again came out and shared his experience of what really happens at the offices of California-based tech giant. His knowledge added further credence to the recent report from Ars Technica which sa...
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Rumours Indicate Amazon Preparing $99 Version of 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD Tablet
By: Ali Raza | March 22nd, 2013 | News, O Canada, Tablets
The current model of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet has yet to make its debut in Canada, but rumours of its 7-inch version that is speculated to be priced at $99 have already started whirling and it is expected that the new slate will roll out sometime during this year, according to TechCrunch. If the speculation t...
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BlackBerry Improves Search Functionality of BlackBerry World to Give Users Better Results
By: Ali Raza | March 20th, 2013 | News, O Canada
BlackBerry has brought a number of changes to its app store, BlackBerry World, so that users can enjoy an improved search function of content in the catalogue by getting easy access to the top and most popular applications on its...
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BlackBerry Executive Says They will Launch 6 New BlackBerry Devices in 2013 Along with New PlayBook
By: Ali Raza | March 20th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
BlackBerry launched its brand new BB10 platform at the start of last month. Since then one question that has been asked more than any other: When will the Waterloo-based company launch the next PlayBook with the latest BB10 OS? Recently answering this question, CEO of BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins completely ruled out the chance...
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Teardown of Samsung Galaxy S IV Reveals it Costs $236
By: Ali Raza | March 20th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
When BlackBerry Z10 was ripped apart it was reported that the device cost about $154 to produce a single unit of the handset. Now its Samsung Galaxy S IV’s turn to face the music, as a IHS iSuppli teardown revealed that the cost of the brand new smartphon...
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Twitter Finally Gets Patent for Its Core Technology
By: Jeff Stewart | March 20th, 2013 | News, Social Media
The patent for the "pull-to-refresh" feature of Twitter is still pending, but the micro-blogging website has acquired another patent that is even more valuable to the company. This patent is on Twitter itself and it was granted to Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey for being the inventors of the “device independent message distribution...
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Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch is Stepping Down from his Position to Accept New Role in Apple
By: Jeff Stewart | March 20th, 2013 | Apple, iOS, News
CNBC was the first to report that the Chief Technology Officer for Adobe, Kevin Lynch, is stepping down from his position in order to take a new role in Apple. Later a document submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed that Lynch is leaving th...
