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RIM Gets Slapped With Patent Infringement Lawsuit Relating To Bluetooth From Wi-Lan
0By: Kevin Green | December 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion got hit by another lawsuit on December 11 after patent licensing firm Wi-Lan went to court against the maker of the popular BlackBery smartphone. The lawsuit is related to Bluetooth technology and Wi-Lan claims RIM has infringed on patents the Canadian licensing firm owns. ...
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Yahoo Gives Mail a Major Update
By: Kevin Green | December 12th, 2012 | Business, News
In a blog post on December 11, Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer announced the redesign of Yahoo Mail. The former Google executive mentioned in her post that the updated browser based email service from Yahoo was developed to be faster than the previous ...
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China Invests $10 Million For ZDG Ottawa International Incubation Centre
By: Kevin Green | December 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canada is fast becoming a popular destination for technology startups thanks to talented entrepreneurs and good government policies. China has recognized these strong points and on December 11 announced that Ottawa would be the city of its second North American technology incubation center. The initiative is being spear headed by the $11 billion Zhongguancun Development Group (
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Google and DonorsChoose.org Ready To Send $99 Chromebooks to Schools
By: Kevin Green | December 12th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
American technology giant Google has stated that it is starting a new program that will bring Chromebooks to financially strapped schools in a partnership with DonorsChoose.org. This holiday season teachers will have the chance to request that their class rooms get Samsung Series 5 Chrom...
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LEAK – Is This The iPhone 5S?
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Apple, News, Smartphones
It’s been too long since Apple launched its much awaited iPhone 5 for sale, but alas mere months following its release, supposed images of its successor device, thus far dubbed the iPhone 5S have already started coming to light. Adding credibility to these leaked photos are reports that the latest smartphone may have been scheduled for a...
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SoundCloud Launches New Site and Mobile Apps With Improved Features and Functionality
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Android, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Popular online audio distributing website, SoundCloud announced on Tuesday of last week that they had introduced a revamped and updated version of their website. With this move, the latest version of SoundCloud became available to all users. This was not the first time that SoundCloud has declared changes to their site, as the audio distrib...
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Twitter Introduces Range of Instagram Style Photo Filters
By: Jeff Stewart | December 12th, 2012 | News, Social Media
It appears that the conflict between photo sharing platform Instagram and micro-blogging website Twitter is getting more intense with the passage of time, as Twitter has introduced a range of photo filters as of yesterday. Late last week it was learnt that employees of the micro-...
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Netflix Strikes a Deal With Walt Disney Co to Stream its First-Run Movies by 2016
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Business, News
Netflix Inc, the industry leader in streaming media on demand via the internet world round suffered a severe jolt back in February of this year when its contract with premium US channel, Starz came to an end following multiple failed attempts to renegotiate a deal. However, nine months followin...
