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Back in late February, MasterCard announced their new digital wallet would be launching by the end of March. The timeframe was a bit delayed but today the company announced the launch of their much anticipated digital wallet, MasterPass. Canada will be the first country to use MasterPass in North America. The company says at launch Porter Airlines,...

Flipboard has announced since launching their 2.0 update last month which included a new magazine curation feature, the latter has resulted in over 500,000 magazines created in the past two weeks. As for other statistics, Flipboard says there have been 6 billion pages flipped per month by their user base of 53 million readers. As...

Waterloo-based Kik has announced its cross platform messaging app has surpassed 50 million users, currently adding over 200,000 new users per day. The company also noted over 25 million installs of their HTML5 apps have been installed via their Cards feature, introduced last fall. During that same time, Kik announced it had reached 30 million...

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report today, claiming that Apple may delay the launch of iPhone 5S, the second generation iPad Mini and a cheaper iPhone due to a number of production issues currently being faced by the Cupertino company, MacRumors is reporting. Contrary to the analyst's previous predictions and general market consensus, Apple's...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the popular game Fruit Ninja from Halfbrick Studios (iTunes will update later this afternoon to announce it). This is one of the most popular games on iOS and has some amazing gameplay and graphics to kill the time. Last summer to celebrate the two year...

According to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, Apple's next major iOS update expected to be unveiled this summer, could introduce a true mobile wallet solution, CNET reports. While calling it a "killer app", the analyst claims that this mobile wallet feature would come as part of iOS 7 which will be shown at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference...

Samsung has today announced the all new GALAXY Mega phablets in Seoul, Korea, which will come in 6.3" and 5.8" sizes and go on sale alongside its Note and Galaxy S ranges. The Korean company's two new jumbo sized devices which fall in the phablet category i.e between smartphones and tablets, will use the same Android 4.2 Jelly Bean version...

Available previously for iPad only, Documents by Readdle has just been updated to support the iPhone. The app is now available for download in the App Store for free as a universal binary. Now both iPhone and iPad users can use the free Documents app to view all common document formats, play audio / video media...

Real Racing 3 has released their 1.1 update (which they previously teased) to introduce a couple Chevrolet purchase options in the Cobalt SS and Camaro ZL1. There's also a new Hunter mode, Cloud Save functionality and over 100 new events, which now brings total events to over 1000. Full change log below: What's New in...

What's the speed record in creating a biopic from idea to 80 minute final cut? Well, 8 weeks – according to what Ryan Perez, the writer and director of iSteve, told Fast Company. This obviously leads to inaccuracies, but Perez encourages the audience to catch and note them. (more…)

TELUS has announced its 4G LTE network has gone live in Saskatchewan, in Regina and Saskatoon: “Already enjoying Saskatchewan’s largest 4G network, we are pleased to welcome residents of Regina and Saskatoon to our 4G LTE wireless network service, which now covers more than 24 million Canadians across the country,” said Brent Johnston, vice-president, TELUS...

U.S. District Judge Robert Scola says Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit aren't interested in resolving patent litigation, but use it as business strategy, Bloomberg reports. (more…)