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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Gives RIM Second Chance With BB10 Trial
0By: Kevin Green | December 14th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion has been losing marketshare over the last year as competitors like Apple and Samsung took over the smartphone market. One of the places where the Canadian technology giant was still holding sway was the enterprise sector where business and government agencies prized security. However, that sector also took blow when in October th...
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Google Maps lets users explore NASA’s ‘Black Marble’
By: Kevin Green | December 14th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
Google Maps is always trying to give users a new way of looking at our planet and the places that exist around the world. The latest effort form the Google Maps team is NASA’s “Black Marble” and users can now explore the images from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...
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Checkout 51 Gives Canadian A Chance to Experience A Simple Coupon Service
By: Kevin Green | December 14th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Checkout 51 is based out of Toronto, Canada and has ambitions of changing the way Canadians think about coupons. The technology startup has given the coupon an interesting twist and released an iPhone app which customers can use to take images of receipts of items they have bought and submit it to Checkout51. The system checks for applicabl...
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SpotHero Gets $2.5 million In VC Investment For Car Parking Service
By: Kevin Green | December 14th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Chicago based startup SpotHero is using a peer to peer network to help users search and pre-book parking in the city. On December 13 the firm got $2.5 million in funding that will be used to help the company grow and expand into other cities. Battery Ventures led the investment round and was joined by 500 Startups, New World Ventures, Lightbank, ...
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Researchers Introduce Augmented Reality System That Makes Food Look Bigger So Dieters Consume Less
By: Jeff Stewart | December 13th, 2012 | Gadgets, Health, Living, News
It is often observed that whenever food lovers see the line-up of their favourite dishes in a party or at a holiday dinner they fill their plate high by putting a little extra from each dish. However, in the end such people usually fail to finish their extra-large portions of meal, proving to an extent the old adage that says “your eyes were bigger than your stomach!” However, res...
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Microsoft Web Properties Reveals Office Apps for iPad and iPhone Coming Soon
By: Jeff Stewart | December 13th, 2012 | Android, Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Users of Apple Inc.’s iPad and iPhone have been waiting for the release of Microsoft Office applications that run on iOS powered devices for quite some time. Although thus far nothing tangible has popped up in the market, it has been learnt thr...
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Google’s Augmented Reality Game Putting Players in Real World Jeopardy?
By: Jeff Stewart | December 13th, 2012 | Gadgets, Games, Google, Living, News, Smartphones, Tablets
The video game industry is one of the leading tech related industries in the world, featuring a huge customer base trumped only by those belonging to the music and movie industry. With the passage of time this industry is only getting bigger by grabbing more market share with each passing year. As a result of this, video game developers too have become more conscious about their work and they hav...
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MindTeacher Offers Daily Deals on Online Self-Improvement Courses
By: Ali Raza | December 13th, 2012 | Business, News
Since Groupon has introduced the business model of offering daily deals for various products, tons of such websites have mimicked it, and are now are offering daily deals in different regions. Denmark based startup, MindTeacher has a similar business model, offering superb discounts on online courses related to self impro...
