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By Matt Watterworth on January 23rd, 2012

Evi is the new girl on the block and she wants to be your new voice-activated personal assistant. True Knowledge has released their version of the assistant in your pocket. It’s a tall order, creating an app with the ability to convert speech to text, understand the context of that text and apply it to…

By Matt Watterworth on January 19th, 2012

Technology that allows a merchant to begin accepting payment for their goods or services directly within a mobile device has been getting a lot of ink lately. Recently, we reported on PAYD, one of the new smartphone dongles that put the power of a credit card terminal in your pocket. But now, thanks to Card.io,…

By Matt Watterworth on January 19th, 2012

Twitter has acquired Summify, the startup that takes news from all of your personal social media accounts and your favourite blogs and condenses it all down to the most important stories. The purchase price has not been announced but this marks the second big announcement from Vancouver-based social media startups as HootSuite recently announced hitting…

By Gary Ng on January 19th, 2012

As part of Apple’s education event today in New York City, Eddy Cue took to the stage to announce a standalone iTunes U app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app will bring easier access to the thousands of lectures and free education content. The app will also allow professors and teachers to…

By Gary Ng on January 19th, 2012

Today at Apple’s education media event in New York City, they have made some major announcements to disrupt the textbook publishing industry, as noted by Steve Jobs in his biography. Apple has partnered with Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to bring major textbooks to iOS. Phil Schiller was on stage to announce iBooks 2…

By Usman on January 19th, 2012

NamcoBandai Games Inc. has released the iOS version of popular arcade fighting game SoulCalibur which is now available as a universal download for iPhone / iPod touch and iPad in the App Store. The game isn’t cheap though, currently selling at US $11.99, but Namco has launched the title with a 20% ‘Release Sale’. So if you…

By Usman on January 19th, 2012

Developed by income tax specialists with years of experience in tax preparation business, Go! Tax Canada app for iOS introduces an innovative way to file your Canadian personal income taxes anywhere, anytime using your iPhone or iPod Touch. Simply download the app free from the App Store, fill out your tax information, take photos of your tax slips and submit them to…

By Usman on January 18th, 2012

Update 1: Looks like the free promo period has ended. It was a nice grab while it lasted. CreativeNchildren (CnC) have just made their three best selling iOS apps totally free in the App Store. The apps are a part of the Quick™ Series i.e Quick™ Light, Quick™ Snap and Quick™ Video. The developers claim that all these three apps…

By Gary Ng on January 18th, 2012

A few notable app updates worth mentioning include WhatsApp, Netflix, and Action Movie FX. Let’s see what these updates bring to the table… WhatsApp Messenger Last week WhatsApp was removed from the App Store as they had submitted a new version to Apple. This caused some hilarious hoaxes to pop up via chain letters (people…

By Matt Watterworth on January 17th, 2012

Do you use HootSuite, the social media management dashboard? If you do, you’ve got company. Today, the industry leading organization announced that it had reached its 3 millionth sign up. According to the HootSuite blog, there are currently 6 million unique social profiles and the number of messages sent through the service has topped 700…