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TalkTo is a clever service aimed to eliminate calling businesses to get answers, but rather text them instead. There's nothing worse than waiting on the line to get a specific question answered, such as business hours (if they're not listed on the web, for example). The service today has officially launched in Canada. “Texting businesses should...

Rogers has announced the BlackBerry Z10 launch was their most successful BlackBerry debut in their history. Here are some other stats they sent to us: We have sold more BlackBerry smartphones on February 5th 2013 than any other day in Rogers history (Rogers was the first carrier to launch BlackBerry services in 1999). Rogers BlackBerry...

Skype has rolled out version 4.5 of its iPhone app today, adding new features like automatic dropped call reconnection and emergency call redirection. The update also introduces a new toggle to opt-in or opt-out of marketing when registering. The automatic call recovery feature for dropped calls was first introduced in Skype for iPad update which was released earlier...

Apple investor Greenlight Capital Inc.'s president and co-founder David Einhorn has outlined in the company’s annual statement that Apple should return more of its $137.1 billion in cash to shareholders, Bloomberg reports. He added that he joins other investors in saying that Apple is hanging on to too much of its "cash hoard", which equates to about $145 per share....

Research analyst firm Canalys has published new numbers from its analysis of PC sales during Q4 2012, suggesting that one in every three PCs shipped during this period was a tablet (any computing device with screen of seven inches or more), and that iPad accounted for about half of them i.e one in every six computers shipped (via...

The State of Mobile Advertising report signed by Opera (via The Next Web) shows that Android has recorded an impressive growth in terms of ad impressions, but iOS users bring most of the profit to mobile advertisers, with Canada ranking No. 6 among the top 20 countries by impressions. (more…)

In the light of recent rumours suggesting that the next generation full-sized iPad a.k.a the iPad 5 will feature slimmer GF2 DITO display technology and also take on a design similar to that of the iPad mini, CiccareseDesign has created some new renderings of the next generation iPad, comparing its size with the New iPad, iPad mini and iPhone 5 (via...

For Apple, security was and will always be among the top priorities, and that starts the moment you slide to unlock the device. And as the recently granted patent shows, Apple is indeed working on image identification to properly recognize authorized users. (more…)

Last month, we reviewed Just Mobile's two iconic accessories, the AluPen™ stylus and the Encore™ iPad stand. Today, we'll look at a couple more sleek and stylish design objects from the same company, the Xtand Pro™ desktop stand for laptops and the Alupad™ mouse pad. Let's see how these two pair up with a 15" Retina MacBook...

Fido has introduced a new $40 per month promo plan that offers the following: Unlimited SMS/MMS, both local and international 150 day time minutes Unlimited 5pm evenings and weekends Unlimited Canada-wide long distance Call display, mini voicemail (up to 3 messages of 3 minutes each, saved up to 3 days) 200MB of data Fido also recently...

The Competition Bureau has submitted its suggestions to the CRTC in its demand for feedback regarding the draft wireless code, published late Wednesday: The Bureau believes that discouraging the creation of switching costs that tend to reduce customer mobility, and effectively encouraging the provision of sufficient information to enable informed consumer choice, will allow Canadians...

Twitter has released an update to its iOS app with improvements to searches and the Discover tab, which enables you to see the latest trending topics and tweets. Other additions include links opening instantly when tapped and also performance updates which will help those with older iOS devices. What's New in Version 5.3 Instantly access...