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More and more battery pack chargers are being released for the iPhone 5, and the latest Kickstarter project, the iKit NuCharge aims to take them into a different direction. It's a lighter and thinner case compared to the Mophie Juice Pack, and the company claims its higher capacity battery will charge your iPhone to 100%....

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang chose the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose to unveil the company's Volta, their upcoming GPU. Unfortunately, this will not be available until 2016. (more…)

Imagine fishing from your boat in the middle of a lake, then when you feel a tug on the line, you reel in your catch, and pull your fish into the air. However, instead of reaching for your net to catch the fish, you grab your shotgun or Uzi, and turn it into a rain...

There's been a lot of debate back and forth, a war of words over the state of Canada's wireless industry recently. First, we had Ottawa professor Michael Geist share his thoughts on why the wireless market in Canada remained "woefully uncompetitive", a response to Scotia Capital's report set to dispel myths about the wireless industry....

For those looking for protection for their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, MacBook or any other electronics, ZAGG has launched a Buy One Get One (BOGO) promo today. So that means any invisibleSHIELD ordered will include an equal or lesser value shield for free. Definitely sounds like a good idea to stock up on some protection...

First reported by CNBC, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Lynch, has left the company to join Apple, TNW confirms. Adobe provided the following statement regarding Lynch: “Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, is leaving the company effective March 22 to take a position at Apple.  We will not be replacing the CTO position; responsibility for technology development...

Earlier today, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 to address the passcode lockscreen bypass bug, along with some map fixes for Japan. Part of the update includes numerous security fixes, which Apple has credited four of them to the Evad3rs jailbreak team, as noted by @MuscleNerd: https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/314073229268496384 Apple also released an Apple TV 5.2.1 update today that...

Last year Rogers launched their Device Protection plans in November, and today the company has informed us Fido Device Protection has similarly launched. The protection package service includes the following: Device Protection Phone Finder and Anti-theft Fido TechXpert service The monthly costs associated for the service are as follows: $8 for Fido TechXpert service, $10...

The Toronto-based startup Whirlscape is aiming high: to improve touchscreen typing by reducing the three-row keyboard to a single dimension and opening up the touchscreen space for interaction possibilities allowing precision-entry. Introducing Minuum, a new kind of virtual keyboard. (more…)

The mobile payment system Square Canada launched back in October of 2012 and so far has proved to be quite popular, with activations and average transactions higher compared to its US counterpart. Square, as you may recall, is the company backed by Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey. Five months into the Canadian market, their first international...

Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 which contains improvements and some bug fixes, in particular the lock screen passcode flaw which enabled access to the phone app. Other fixes include improvements to maps for Japan. This looks to be a minor upgrade, no word on whether battery improvements are included but we'll find out soon enough....

Warren East, the man who helped build ARM into a chip-design powerhouse supplying Apple's iDevices announced that he would step down as company CEO on July 1, 2013. (more…)