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MasterCard has today unveiled its plans to introduce a digital wallet app in Canada called the MasterPass, that will allow customers to keep personal payment details in their smartphones and make payments quickly by simply scanning a bar code in stores (via The Globe And Mall). The MasterPass app will create a digital receipt on the...

While rumours of a second generation iPad mini to sport a Retina display with a display pixel count of 324 pixels per inch (ppi) have lately been at large, a new report by PatentlyApple is suggesting that the Cupertino giant is looking to push this number past 400ppi with its third generation iPad mini.  While AU...

Christian Paradis, the Minister of Industry, is currently in Barcelona, Spain at Mobile World Congress 2013. His plans are to promote Canada as a premier place for foreign investment, highlighting our skilled workforce, information and communications technologies, and the steps taken by the Harper Government that has resulted in our country as a leading digital...

Mozilla has finally debuted its much hyped Firefox OS for mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. The web-based open source platform where all the features and apps are created using the HTML5 web standard, will power the world’s first Open Web Devices in partnership with 18 carriers around the world later this year. With Firefox OS, Mozilla...

LG Electronics hopes to breathe new life into WebOS as it has acquired the operating system from Hewlett-Packard (via CNET). Their intention is to switch direction: WebOS won't be used on smartphones anymore, and instead iwill make its way to LG smart TVs. (more…)

Shazam, a fun and engaging app, today unveiled that it has seen a tremendous growth over recent months, with the company reporting more than 300 million users worldwide. (more…)

Samsung is set to unveil its next Galaxy S smartphone, widely referred to as the Galaxy S IV, on March 14 in New York, taking the battle for the best smartphone to Apple's home turf, according to a Reuters report. The source points out that the venue has been moved to New York due to the...

Apple aired a new TV ad tonight called "Hollywood," which debuted during The Oscars, but just recently was uploaded to its YouTube channel. It follows the same theme of its previous iPad TV ads, focusing on the App Store's 300,000+ apps. Check it out below:

A brand new jailbreak tweak called TypeStatus is coming to the Cydia store, that lets you see the “now typing” indicator in the status bar when one of your friends is replying to a message using iMessage (via iDownloadBlog). Once you have the tweak installed on your device, you don't need to have the Messages app open to see...

The Oscars take place tonight so here's a related story about how a $1.99 app saved the Oscar-nominated film in the Documentary Feature category, "Searching for Sugar Man". CNN Money tells the story: The $1.99 app used by director Malik Bendjelloul was 8mm Vintage Camera, to help him finish the film as he ran out of...

The LG Optimus G Pro features a panorama mode similar to what's available in iOS 6, but it also includes an option take 360 degree panoramas, similar to what we've seen in apps like 360 Panorama that launched years ago. Now, the latest TV ad promoting their VR Panorama mode takes a jab at an earlier...

Last week Rogers, TELUS and Bell dropped the 16GB iPhone 4S to $0 on a three year contract (it's a limited time offer, not a permanent price drop). Now, SaskTel has followed suit with the exact same deal, available in black and white. The iPhone 4 is also the same price, so make sure you...