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Google Translate for Android updated with offline translation in 50 languages

Google Translate isn’t the most high-profile of the company’s apps, but for frequent travellers and lovers of language it can be a huge convenience. The issue with Translate up ’til now is that it’s relied on an internet connection for most of its work. This precluded the use of the service if overseas without a [...]

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Gmail 2.1 for iOS improves email navigation and adds batch edit mode

Gmail for iOS has been quickly iterating to catch up to its Android counterpart. With the release of version 2.0 in December, the company added aesthetic improvements, performance enhancements and multiple account support, and now Google has added a couple more highly-requested features. First up is the ability to quickly skip between emails without returning to [...]

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Supreme Court sides with TELUS, claims police must obtain wiretap for future text message interception

After two years running through Canada’s various judicial bodies, the Supreme Court has sided with TELUS after the company appealed a decision allowing police to obtain records of future text messages with a general search warrant. In a 5-2 decision, the judges came to the conclusion that, since “text messaging bears several hallmarks of traditional [...]

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CyanogenMOD Nightlies Just Became A Lot More Intriguing With PIE Controls

CyanogenMOD has never really been about features. For the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on it every day, it’s more a way to get a stock Android experience on your device with a few promising tweaks to performance. While there certainly are features that won’t be found in stock Android, CM attempts to [...]

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Temple Run, Ruzzle, Gravity Guy 2 and More Coming To Windows Phone This Week

Windows Phone was set to receive Temple Run shortly after the launch of WP8 in November. Though spring buds already blooming, we won’t hold Imangi Studio in contempt — they were working on the game’s sequel for iOS and Android. But here we are, nearing the end of March, and Temple Run has hit Windows Phone. [...]

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Android-Specific Humble Bundle Offers Plants Vs. Zombies, Metal Slug 3 and Others At A Discount

The Humble Bundle is not getting any more modest. In fact, its offerings are becoming more mainstream every time we revisit it. This is likely because the developers associated with the project see how many of them sell, and the good publicity doesn’t hurt, either. This time around, Humble Bundle is offering six Android-only games [...]

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Bell Novatel Wireless MiFi 2 Review

What does one need in a wireless hotspot? A couple of years ago, a touchscreen-enabled LCD would be pretty far down the list, but that’s exactly what you get in a 2013 version of a MiFi. The Novatel Wireless MiFi 2 is available on Bell for $49.95 on a 2-year term and $199.95 outright; Flex [...]

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Microsoft announces BUILD 2013 conference for June 26-28 in San Francisco

Microsoft’s annual developer conference, BUILD, is slated to be much earlier this year than last: June 26-28 in San Francisco. The company is rapidly iterating on its various Windows ecosystems, including updates to Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone. The conference was held in November last year (which we attended in Seattle), where Microsoft [...]

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Amazing keyboard startup, Minuum, clears $60,000 in a week, details Wearable Development Kit

Minuum, the one-dimensional keyboard replacement for smartphones, tablets and, eventually, everything else, has broached its stretch goal of $60,000 in just seven days. Its initial IndieGogo goal of $10,000 was reached in a single day, and the momentum has not stopped since the announcement. Part of the appeal of Minuum is its ubiquity: aside from [...]

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Finally, an AWS-compatible iPhone: How T-Mobile’s LTE Network Affects Canadians

Do WIND, Mobilicity and Videotron subscribers finally have an iPhone to call their own? Sort of, not really, no. Depends on who you ask. Before we get to that, however, let’s back up. For months now, following its impending merger with MetroPCS, T-Mobile has been teasing the rollout of an LTE network, the last of [...]