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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is testing numerous television set designs with its Asian component suppliers: Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test several TV-set designs, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the U.S. company is moving closer to expanding its offerings for the living room. Officials at...

Some high quality images of RIM's upcoming BlackBerry L-Series smartphone has leaked online on tinhte.vn (via The Verge). In mid-November we saw an early picture of this phone compared next to the iPhone 5, but those images aren't as clear as these. The phone actually looks quite nice, check out a few of the pictures below: The...

After three years in Canada, WIND Mobile has managed to build up a subscriber base of 560,000 users, which makes it the fourth largest carrier in the country. Rogers, TELUS and Bell still hold 91% of the wireless market compared to new wireless entrants. WIND Mobile's chief operating officer, Pietro Cordova, in an interview with...

Over the past year I've been lucky enough to have the chance to review a number of products from Arctic. From the Architect Stylus to numerous cases, I always find myself enjoying them. Not only are they stylish, but they’re very functional - and Arctic keeps the ball rolling with its newest addition to its...

The third anniversary of the release of Angry Birds comes with some juicy updates: an Angry Birds movie announced for 2016, and Angry Birds 3.0 in the App Store, a free update for those who had already paid for the original 99-cent game. (more…)

Marc Garneau - Canada's first astronaut Liberal MP Marc Garneau recently announced in late November of his intention to run for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party of Canada. Yesterday on his website he announced his "Telecommunications Statement", which urges for increased foreign competition within our telecom industry to drive better service and pricing:...

The Verge goes hands on and exclusively reviews the Lapka (Russian for the word 'paw) iPhone sensor, which we previously covered back in August. This "personal environment monitor" comes with four various sensors to measure humidity/temperature, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies (EMF), and organicity. Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov explains their accessory: "Lapka is a set of existing...

"Apple still has no peer", says the Time Magazine as it ranks iPhone 5 as number 1 in the list of top 10 gadgets of 2012. Comparing it with Samsung’s Galaxy S III, the article says that when it comes to melding hardware, software and seamless services, iPhone 5 simply blows away the competition. Apple unveiled the iPhone 5, its sixth...

Apple has pushed out a minor update for its Find my iPhone app to add driving directions to device locations, supported on devices running iOS 6 or later. Also, various buttons now appear separately in map view, specifically Play Sound, Lost Mode and Erase iPhone. Full change log below: What's New in Version 2.0.1 •...

Though Samsung still tops the charts with 40% global LTE device market share, the percentage has actually dropped down from 50.9% in the last three months. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics (via The Next Web), this drop has been caused by the iPhone 5's tremendous sales that has taken Apple to the 2nd...

Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in Quebec and Saskatchewan over the promotion of Siri as a feature of the iPhone 4S. The digital assistant feature had a limited launch in Canada with the debut of the iPhone 4S, which was misleading according to the proposed lawsuits. According to an article on...

Canada is a special place. Why? Because when it comes to subsidies on the latest smartphones, our wireless contracts are three years compared to just two in the USA and other countries around the world. With the CRTC recently announcing the results of their wireless code consultation, the results showed the top 100 'liked' comment...