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Analysts Think Apple Needs New Products As Court Rejects Samsung Ban Request
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News
Apple’s previous track record of bringing game changing technology to consumers has been putting pressure on the firm to come up with the next big thing. Since December 16, five Wall Street analysts have dropped their price targets on Apple shares. Some have pointed at the orders being placed by Apple with its suppliers as an indication that iP...
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Leap Motion Sends 10,000 Units To Developers Along With SDK
By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | Business, News
Leap Motion is shipping out 10,000 Leap units to developers so that they can create applications that use the companies gesture based input device. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has put its hardware in limited production as 40,000 developers are looking to work with the new device. Leap Motion is offering its product at $70 in p...
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Mark Zuckerberg Donates $500M in Facebook Stock To Charity
By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | News, Social Media
The Billionaire CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on December 18 that he was donating approximately $500 million in Facebook shares to a charity located in California’s Silicon Valley. The charitable donation would be used to fund health and education initiatives. The total donation was for 18 million shares of Faceboo...
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Co-Founders of Shopify and Select Start Studios Share How Their Union Happened
By: Jeff Stewart | December 19th, 2012 | Business, News
Shopify is a platform that enables both businesses and individuals to create their own online stores. A year ago, this company was looking to improve their mobile offerings, opting to look externally, thus beginning its search for a company that can boost its capabilities after acquisition. Finally this search came to an end wh...
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RIM Begins “Beta Testing” Blackberry 10 by Offering Free Handsets and Software to 120 Companies
By: Jeff Stewart | December 19th, 2012 | Android, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
There is still plenty of time left before the launch of Research In Motion(RIM)'s flagship operating system, Blackberry 10 as it is slated for a January 30 global release. However, the company has announced on Monday that they had started “beta testing” their latest offering thereby allowing 120 government departments and enterprise companies to test their upcoming BB10 smartphones. ...
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14 Year Old Deepika Kurup Develops an Inexpensive Solar Power-Driven Water Refinement System
By: Jeff Stewart | December 18th, 2012 | Gadgets, News
The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a high prize science competition that was developed for gifted science students between the 5th to 8th grade taking place annually since 2008. During this tenure some excellent talent has been discovered through this platform; discovering you minds that give something new to the world of science with their hard work and devotion. ...
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U.S. Agency Gives RIM One More Chance to Keep its Contract, Will Test Run Blackberry 10 Platform
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Earlier this year things did not seems to be going in favour of Canada’s very own Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), as the pace of losing its consumers to both Android and iOS powered devices got faster and its shares price in stock exchanges also plunged down pretty swiftly and eventually hit the single digit mark. To add i...
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Virgin Mobile Says HTC 8S “has been flying off the shelves”
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
It seems that Canadians were impatiently awaiting the release of the HTC Windows Phone 8S because in spite of the fact that Virgin Mobile has launched this latest device without any contract terms, consumers are still finding its offering too good to pass up. In fact, Canadians find the HTC Windows Phone 8S so ...
