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Reeling from an 88% drop in its stock value last year, Kodak is looking to its expansive patent library as a source of recovery cash to mount a comeback.  Today, the 131-year-old imaging company sued Apple and HTC over imaging patents while, yesterday, Apple’s stock hit an all-time high. FOSS Patents lays out the particular...

Corning has officially announced their latest Gorilla Glass 2 at CES. The glass is now 20 percent thinner and comes in at 0.8 millimetres, and is much stronger than before, along with its scratch resistant qualities. Corning Gorilla Glass is the world's most deployed cover glass, and this latest iteration will result in thinner devices,...

According to a new survey from Ipsos Reid, Apple took the top spot as a 'leading edge' brand in Canada. Just what makes a brand 'leading edge'? Over 1000 respondents had to refer to the following 14 statements that were tested among 10 brands: Is a trendsetter Is unique Are unconventional Stand-out Is innovative Is...

As news emerges from the latest iOS 5 Developer Beta release, MacRumors is reporting on the return of the “Enable 3G” switch (it's currently absent from the 4S) which allows users to chose between the faster 3G network or the EDGE network using less battery power. iPhone 4S users will note that this switch is...

Today during mid-day trading, Apple's stock price reached an all-time high at $427.75 per share, beating its previous high of $426.70 back in mid-October. Today's shares ended up falling to close at $421.73.  At one point last September, Apple's stock valuation made it the largest company in the world. In other news, Apple also filed its proxy statement...

Today marks the fifth year anniversary of the original iPhone announcement back in 2007 at Macworld (now iWorld), as it was introduced by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. That unforgettable moment changed our lives as we know it, and turned the mobile industry at the time upside down on its head. What emerged was the so-called...

Apple has just released iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers as an over the air (OTA) download around the world. The Developer Center has yet to be updated with the downloads and change log, so check back soon as this develops. iOS 5.1 Beta 2 was previously released as a standalone download back on December 12th, that...

At the end of last November, we posted about our nomination into the 2011 Canadian Blog Awards under the 'Best Science and Technology Blog' category and asked for your vote. Well, it looks like the power of our community pulled through because we received enough votes to make it into the final round. Voting started...

We have all been cursing Samsung for a while now, a company trying real hard not to copy Apple for marketing its own gadgets but what Acer has done here, well I really don't have words to describe it. As noted by The Verge, Acer demonstrated its new cloud based storage service today which is actually a...

According to Amit Kumar, Samsung is set to debut a new wireless feature at CES 2012 called Swipeit, seen as a competitor to Apple's AirPlay: On January 9, 2012, Samsung will announce their Apple Airplay competitor - the Samsung SwipeIt – at CES. SwipeIt works exactly like the Apple’s AirPlay. Watching a video on your...

Last month, Apple announced that its customers have downloaded over 18 billion apps from the App Store since its launch and this number is growing by more than one billion downloads per month. For some sense of how much recent growth has ramped up, consider that the App Store took 2 years to reach its first 5 billion. This indicates that the continued sales of iOS devices,...

It seems that Engadget has got their hands on the press release of upcoming Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 ahead of its unveiling at CES Las Vegas 2012, which will reportedly feature a 720p camera, video recording, a new piloting mode and more. AR.Drone 2.0 is an update to the iPhone controlled high-tech quadricopter developed by Parrot, a global leader in...