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PayPal you owe our family $4020. That figures represents the amount of extra money my wife and I had to shell out last week for ...
A Google-created and branded smartphone has been rumored for years. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington gave the idea fresh legs on Monday when he suggested the ...
The cloud descends in Toronto on Nov. 3rd. That’s when my employer IDC Canada, will help attendees of the Virtualization Under a Cloud – Payoffs ...
David Pogue, the talented resident New York Times tech columnist, erstwhile Broadway producer and Mac fan boy, has come up with another entertaining take on ...
Bell and Telus will probably start selling the iPhone on Nov. 4th, the same day the second and third-largest service providers in Canada light ...
For all the talk of iPhone and BlackBerry growth in recent weeks, there is still a relatively large group of people that want a basic ...
Apple’s the envy of many a company, especially in these recessionary times. Yet its 2009 fiscal year fourth-quarter results, which are slated for a 4PM ...
Mobile phone recycling efforts are nothing new. Canadian and U.S. wireless service providers for years have encouraged people to recycle devices no longer in ...
Canadians love their gadgets. It’s a relatively rich country, abundant with resources and well-educated people, which gives many of its citizens the luxury and opportunity ...
Twitter's an increasingly controversial topic in pro sports circles thanks in part to NBAers Charlie Villaneuva and Shaquille O'Neal, who tweeted during breaks in games ...
It’s no secret netbooks are a hot-selling item, especially with people in rich developed countries that are in the midst of a nasty recession. Netbooks ...
Don’t expect the world’s largest businesses to ditch their BlackBerrys anytime soon, despite the early strides made by Apple with its iPhone in that segment. ...
There’s an exception to every rule. Take Microsoft advertisements for example. Having watched the company’s ads for various products over the past decade or ...
The use of Twitter during games is quickly becoming an issue for management of North America’s major professional sports leagues whose players have embraced the ...
Economic green shoots may be sprouting but the global recession will dampen the information technology industry’s prospects over the next five years, IDC Canada told ...
Line of business managers or tech types trying to figure out how technology will help lead Canada out of the recession should check out ...
Palm and Google will sail the U.S. and Canadian smartphone waters starting next week, but their webOS and Android powered devices won't help them ...
Don’t go bragging about the great smartphone you bought just yet. That do-it-all personal communication device is about to lose a lot of its lustre. Smartphone ...
It’s widely accepted that Apple will introduce a fourth-generation iPhone to legions of frothing developers and mobile users next month at its annual Worldwide ...
The decline of daily newspapers has accelerated of late; this is no secret. Nary a week goes by without news of further cutbacks or ...
Score one for Ivan Seidenberg. The company’s chairman & chief executive has gotta be smiling after the week of mostly breathless coverage his ...
Sometimes things are as they appear. For proof, one need only look at Apple’s unofficial exit from the netbook category earlier this week. ...
If tech company earnings were a sporting event, Apple's financial results can be compared to the Super Bowl (or at least a football conference ...
Microsoft and Samsung are pulling out all the stops in a bid to gain share in the Canadian smartphone market. The companies jointly introduced the ...
Research In Motion’s purchase of Viigo: Striking a deeper app development chord
Posted by Kevin Restivo on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 4:52 pm. 2 Comments.
Research In Motion’s acquisition of software developer Viigo, announced Friday, marks a deeper plunge into the nebulous world of application development on the BlackBerry ...
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