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Mars Food Study Researchers Share Exciting Experience
0By: Zain Nabi | August 16th, 2013 | Living, News
In Honolulu six researchers were selected from University of Hawaii and Cornell University who were asked to spend four months in a small dome for the NASA-funded study on a barren Hawaii lava field at an elevation of 8,000 feet. They were asked to figure out the food of astronauts that they might eat when they were on Mars and also during the missions of deep-space. The six researche...
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Study Claims Online Shopping on Rise In Canada With a large majority Ready To Buy Online For Back-to-school Items
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
A study conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights shows that 79% of Canadians will be making online purchases for back-to-school items for their children instead of the traditional method of thronging the shops. The funding for this survey was provided by Visa Canada and it clearly showed that people intend to spend about $325 in brick and mort...
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Experts Predict Virtual Money to Replace Traditional Currency
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News
Karkal, CFO at Simple, MacMillan, reporter at Bloomberg and Thomas Stefan have predicted that in the future virtual money will be prevalent in some form and banking and purchasing experience will be totally different from what it is now. “MacMillan asked the two-person panel what a modern currency should be. Thomas says it must be something that can't be duplicated (fake paper curr...
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BlackBerry Q5 Finally Makes Debut in Canada
By: Ali Raza | August 15th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
After a long wait, BlackBerry finally launched its third BB10 smartphone, the Q5, in Canada on Tuesday, August 13th. The new Q5 is actually a mid-level smartphone that is now available from most of retailers and wireless carriers in Canada, which includes TELUS, Bell, Koodo, Fido, Sasktel and Virgin Mobile. In addition to t...
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Edmonton Based Mover Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian and American investors injected $1 million into Edmonton based file sharing and moving platform Mover. The one year old firm aims to provide users with a swift method to store and move data. The hassle of carrying heavy equipment and accessories to carry one’s data is a thing of the past according to Mover’s representatives. Mover provid...
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North Korea Unveils ‘secure, homemade’ Smartphone
By: Zain Nabi | August 15th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
North Korea has introduced a smartphone that is manufactured domestically. North Korea is known as one of the most isolated and censored societies in the world. Arirang, a well-known mobile phone manufacturing company in the country, has introduced Google's Android operating system in its new smartphone.
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Smartphones Outsell Basic Mobile Handsets For First Time
By: Zain Nabi | August 15th, 2013 | Gadgets, Living, News, Smartphones
In the second quarter of 2013, Samsung sold its 71 million handsets enabled with Internet. Samsung by increasing its shares from 30% to 33% in the mobile market has made its position strong as the world’s leading smartphone vendor. According to the latest ...
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Four Out Of Five Facebook Users Daily Log On Via Smartphone or Tablet
By: Zain Nabi | August 15th, 2013 | News, Smartphones, Social Media
Facebook has reached millions of people and affected their behavior patterns on way or the other. Today more than 24 million people every day visit social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter while 33 million people visit each month. On a daily basis, about 20 million - 83% -
