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TELUS to launch the Huawei B890 4G LTE Smart Hub
TELUS will be launching another “SmartHub” in the coming weeks. The Huawei B890 4G LTE Smart Hub is a follow-up to the B593 4G LTE Smart Hub that was released last September. This too can connect up to 32 Wi-Fi enabled devices and hit peak LTE download speeds of up to peak download speeds up [...]
Zinio Launches Its Magazine Subscription App As A Nokia Exclusive On Windows Phone 8
Zinio, the popular magazine subscription portal with homes on Android, iOS and Windows 8, has announced it will launch its Windows Phone version exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones. The company, which operates in Canada with a far more limited selection than its U.S. counterpart, has successfully competed with Apple’s and Google’s in-house services, though perhaps [...]
BlackBerry Q10 to be released in Canada this April
During the BlackBerry Q4 2012 conference call this morning it was confirmed by Thorsten Heins that the QWERTY/Touch Q10 smartphone is currently being tested by 40 carriers in 20 countries, plus is expected to launch in Canada this April. This isn’t too much of a surprise as Andrew MacLeod, Managing Directory for BlackBerry Canada, stated [...]
BlackBerry has shipped 1 million BlackBerry Z10s
BlackBerry announced their Q4 and year-end results for fiscal 2013. In what was a year of turmoil, job losses and limited device releases, BlackBerry declared Q4 a profit of $98 million (19 cents a share), but revenues were $2.7 billion, down 36% ($4.2 billion) when compared to Q4 2012. BlackBerry noted that they shipped about [...]
Action Launcher 1.5 Introduces Shutters To Make Your Widgets Useful Again
We’ve spoken about Action Launcher before, as it was developer Chris Lacy’s first project after he shuttered the excellent Tweet Lanes project. The alternative Android home screen provided a quick and easy way to access apps — via either a left-side scroll bar, or the quicklaunch tab — and inrtoduced Covers, a way to combine single app [...]
“Note To Self” is the new DashClock as developers clamber to add functionality
In the past few days, ever since Google released its note-taking app, Keep, developers have been clambering to get into the “Note To Self” game. What exactly is this game? Well, Keep introduced a feature whereby you can quickly jot down a voice note by hitting the microphone icon in Google Search/Google Now and speaking, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canada’s first Mobile Interac Flash debit transaction occurred today, full rollout is expected “in the coming year”
Mobile payments in Canada are slowly on the uptake. While financial institutions, carriers and app developers are forging ahead to build-out the needed technology, Canadians are still somewhat concerned about its security. We’ve seen CIBC and Rogers team up to launch ‘suretap’ – which has been a joint investment of approximately $60 million. Today, RBC [...]
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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