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iOS Beats Android & Blackberry As The Highest Yielding Advertising Platform
Opera's Q3 2012 installment of the State of Mobile Advertising report reveals that Apple’s iOS is the highest yielding platform on its advertising network. Furthermore, it appears that Android isn't even as effective as Blackberry as an advertising platform, points out The Next Web (via The Loop). Back in July, Opera officially declared iOS as the most effective mobile advertising platform with an...
Apple Will Launch Its Own Internet Radio Service To Battle Pandora Next Year
With over 400 million iTunes accounts, Apple is now the world's largest online music retailer. However, it looks like the Cupertino giant now wants its share from the online music streaming market as well and is planning to introduce its own radio service as early as 2013 in order to compete with Pandora, reports Bloomberg (via @Satariano)....
Canon Point and Shoot Sales Feel the Pressure from Smartphones
Canon lowered its sales forecast for its compact models by 19.5%, and professional-grade EOS models by 4.3%, as well as its profit forecast by 6.4% according to a company statement reported by Bloomberg. (more…)
CCTS Annual Report: Wireless Complaints Make Up 60% of Issues
Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) has released its annual report and this year telecom complaints increased by 35%, with a majority of those related to wireless services topping the charts for the fourth consecutive year: Commissioner Howard Maker had this to say: “Nearly 11 thousand consumer complaints were filed with us. That...
Songza Updated for iOS 6 and iPhone 5, Adds Alarm Clock Feature
Songza recently surpassed 1 million Canadian users with over 900,000 of those listeners using their iOS app for curated music playlists. The update today brings iOS 6 and iPhone 5 support plus a new alarm clock feature. The latter is pretty awesome as you can set any playlist as your alarm. How to set an alarm? Go...
Famed Apple Corps Logo Now The Property of Apple
The year of 2007 was historical for Apple: a settlement between Apple Inc and Apple Corps ended the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the two. Now, in 2012 Apple Inc has reached another important milestone: the famed Apple Corps logo is now the property of Apple Inc. (more…)
Squarespace Note: A Slick App for Simple Notetaking with Sync Options [FREE]
Squarespace let us know about a new app they've launched called Squarespace Note. Essentially it's a quick notetaking app that allows you to send notes to various locations quickly and easily with the swipe of your finger. The interface is extremely-well designed and is very intuitive. You launch the app and there's an animated demo...
Pocket for Mac Launches in the Mac App Store
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) users on a Mac, we have great news for you: Pocket is now available in the Mac App Store! (more…)
Sherway Gardens Apple Store Grand Reopening: Sat., Oct. 27th
Toronto's Sherway Gardens Apple Store is having a grand re-opening this Saturday, October 27th at 9:30am. Apple has notified customers on its website and via email of the new redesigned store: The redesigned Apple Store, Sherway Gardens, is opening soon, and it’s bigger and better than ever. You’ll find more Apple products to test-drive and...
Conan O’Brien Explains Why You Need an iPad Mini [VIDEO]
Conan O'Brien puts his spin on what he calls the latest iPad mini commercial, which he thinks "is condescending." I don't know if it's true or not...um...but we're going to pre-order the iPad mini this Friday. Check out the video below: Thanks Conan. You made it clearer for the rest of us! We all should...
iFixit Takes the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Apart
iFixit is renowned for its Apple product teardowns and free online repair manuals. Usually, after each new Apple product release, the team quickly takes the device apart, and the latest "victim" has been the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. (more…)
Apple Wins the Next Round of the Patent Lawsuit Hokey Pokey Against Samsung
Even if you've been following along closely, the 'who won what against whom' can be more than a little confusing. The latest news is easy to follow, but may be difficult for Samsung to swallow: according to a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge, the tech giant is guilty of infringing upon four of the...