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Last week CIBC and Rogers unveiled their new NFC mobile payment solution (known as Rogers suretap), a combination of an NFC-SIM tied to your CIBC VISA or MasterCard credit card account for transactions. Both companies claimed it was the first mobile credit card transaction in Canada.  PayPal wrote to us and explained they weren't amazed by...

I think we've all seen this before when talking about Apple with the haters. Posted by Farley (via The Loop): The Apple haters’ stages of grief go something like this: Predict failure of new Apple product Attribute early success of new Apple product to rabid fanbois affected by the reality distortion field Attribute longer term success of product to...

Remember that Chinese iPhone 5 knockoff we told you about a couple of months back? Yes, that GooPhone i5 running a heavily skinned version of Android 4.1 to make it look like iOS. Turns out, that brilliant iPhone 5 knockoff comes packed inside a secret agent-style aluminum alloy suitcase (via MIC Gadget).  I don't know why is the...

The competition in the 7-inch tablet market is heating up, with Microsoft reportedly eager to secure its share. According to sources cited by The Verge, Microsoft is indeed working on a 7-inch gaming tablet. (more…)

To end an antitrust investigation and avoid fines, retailers like Amazon will be allowed to sell e-books cheaper than Apple, the EU Commission decided, taking the offer submitted by the Cupertino company and four publishers, Reuters reports. (more…)

Once in a long while, on a very special day, you can be shoe shopping and try on a pair that feels amazing... almost as if you've owned those shoes forever and broken them in and made them yours and... forgive me, I've digressed. The point is, sometimes something new will surprise you by fitting...

Google recently released an impressive update to their Google Search iOS app to include better voice search capabilities. We noted the speed of the new voice search was actually faster than Siri, and now Gizmodo has put both to the test in a video to illustrate. Check it out below: Anyone out there using Google...

Apple recently posted their iPad mini TV ad to their YouTube channel, which was first debuted at their keynote in October. The commercial shows the iPad as a piano with the iPad mini playing right next to it.  But what if there was a product such as the 'iMac touch'? Pocket Link posts a cool...

Back in August, Empirical Magic put out an iOS support matrix to support to detail what devices are supported on the various version of iOS. Today they let us know the matrix has been updated to support the iPhone 5, iPad mini and 5th generation iPod touch. It's a handy matrix to check out and...

Equal parts military strategy and tower defense, Air Patriots delivers addiction every bit as strong as the developers at Amazon Games promise. You begin your journey as a rookie, a situation that will give you entirely too much confidence because as you work your way through to the Veteran and Pro levels, the game gets...

Time magazine used Instagram to cover the effects of Hurricane Sandy and found out that the results were pretty impressive. An article by Forbes details why one of the world's leading news magazine turned to an iPhone app to cover this historic natural disaster. The report details how Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, rounded up five photographers from the region...

Anybody who read Apple's first attempt at an apology will agree with the courts in the UK: nice try, but do it again... this time, with feeling (or at the very least, with accuracy). The revised notice made appearances in UK newspapers earlier this week. (more…)