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‘Instamonial’ Easily Shares Your Business Testimonials Online
If you own your own business, then you might be interested in checking out Instamonial, created by Toronto-based tech startup KnexxLocal. The premise of the app is to allow local businesses to quickly upload testimonials from customers to their Instamonial page to then quickly share to social networks. “Word-of-mouth referrals are the single most important...
The Mac Essentials Bundle Offers 9 Awesome Apps for $49 [Deals]
If you're looking to take your Mac to another level, the latest Stack Social deal might just do that. The Lifehacker approved Mac Essentials Bundle offers 9 elite apps for just $49, which works out to 83% off the regular retail price (retail value of $310). Here's what's included: TechTool Pro 6: Perform Complete Diagnostics...
How to Get More Out of Google Maps for iPhone [VIDEO]
Google Maps for iOS launched in the App Store last December to much fanfare (10 million downloads in under 48 hours)given the current inconsistencies with Apple Maps. For all the Google Maps newbies out there, Google released a video yesterday to help you quickly learn what the app can do. Learn how to get the most...
BodyGuardz 15% Off Sitewide Presidents’ Day Sale Now Live
BodyGuardz is holding a site wide 15% off Presidents' Day sale that starts today until February 18th. If you've been waiting for a sale on screen protectors, protective skins, cases or earbuds for your iOS devices, definitely check out some of the offerings from BodyGuardz. They have items available for the iPhone, iPad/iPad mini and...
Rogers Q4 2012 Activated and Upgraded 940,000 Smartphones
Rogers this morning announced their Q4 2012 earnings and their wireless division continues to grow on strength from data revenue, which was at $727 million (21% YOY growth) for the quarter. Total wireless revenue was at $1.92 billion (5% YOY growth) and their adjusted operating profit was $687 million (3% YOY growth). Blended ARPU also...
TELUS Q4 2012 Adds 112K Postpaid Subscribers; 7.67M Total Users
TELUS has released their Q4 2012 earnings and their wireless division ended the year by adding an additional 112,000 subscribers, bringing their total cellphone user base to 7.67 million, up 4.5% from a year ago, with postpaid subscribers also increasing 85% compared to a year ago. Smartphone subscribers now represent 66% of their postpaid user...
New Job Posting Suggests Exciting, Innovative Next Generation Apple TV
Apple is about to extend its presence in the living room – or at least this is what the most recent job posting by the company suggests. According to the job listing posted on Apple's website (via 9to5Mac), the Cupertino company is looking for an experienced engineering manager to "lead a team of engineers working...
Shaw Go NBA League Pass Launches: Watch Live Games on iPhone, iPad
Shaw Go NBA League Pass is a new iOS app for customers who subscribe to their HD Sports programming package and is currently a free package for the rest of the season for Shaw Friends (customers who subscribe to two or more services). The app is a free download and allows eligible Shaw customers to...
Apple May Introduce Redesigned iPads At Media Event In April [Piper Jaffray]
Investment research firm Piper Jaffray's analyst Gene Munster has told his clients today that Apple is likely to host a media event by the end of April, which could see the introduction of redesigned iPads, AppleInsider is reporting. He believes that Apple's timeline of product launch events over the past two years suggests that a Spring event will introduce a...
Does Apple Assign “Fake” Projects To New Hires During A Probationary Period?
Last year, Adam Lashinsky made a claim in his book 'Inside Apple' that new Apple hires are sometimes placed on "fake" projects during a probationary period, and are only handed real projects once the company can trust them. To find out if this was true, Ars Technica asked around several Apple employees and found out that none of them ever heard...
Samsung Rumoured to Work On Smartwatch to Rival Apple “iWatch”
Leaked screenshots reveal that Samsung is planning to release a smart watch of its own, to compete a yet-to-be launched iWatch Apple's team of designer is reportedly working on. (more…)
Apple Set To Release iOS 6.1.2 Update With Bug Fixes Pretty Soon
Apple is reportedly working on pushing the iOS 6.1.2 update as early as next week, which will address both Microsoft Exchange bug as well as the passcode vulnerability issues, according to the German blog iFun. While Apple has already stated that both issues will be fixed in the next iOS update, the source claims that the software update may...