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According to a recent study, Canadians are spending less time on smartphones and tablets, as noted in the spring 2012 wave of Ipsos Reid’s Mobil-ology, which studies the Canadian mobile market. “Initially, seasonality was suspected as a cause of this reported behaviour,” says Mary Beth Barbour, Senior Vice President with Ipsos Reid. “However, the average...

The Wall Street Journal has published the proposed verdict forms for the jury submitted by both Apple and Samsung. After taking a quick look at both forms, they are complex and the task of deciding the winner or loser out of this high profile tech trial will not be easy. Apple's verdict form has 23...

We recently learned earlier today that Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Kwon On Hyun would be speaking over the phone attempting to resolve any ongoing patent disputes. Upon the phone call, each companies lawyers will alert Judge Lucy Koh of the results. The rest of the unresolved disputes will be decided by the jury. But...

Right when we thought the final decision would be given to the jury, Apple and Samsung are now back to settlement talks. Tim Cook will speak to Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun over the phone in attempt to settle various infringement disputes. Hopefully past settlement talks aren't any clue of what's to arise. Bloomberg has the report, via...

Would you like to own a portion of the iPhone 5 before the release? Probably not, but regardless, the iPhone 5's rumored 1136 x 640 display and digitizer is for sale on ChinaGadgetLand. We cannot verify the part is real, but I wouldn't doubt it with all these pre-release iPhone part leaks. The part is...

After a long hard battle between Apple and Samsung, an end is finally near. On Saturday we noted the testimony portion of the case came to a halt. Since neither side could come to an agreement on any of their patent disputes, the jury will now have to decide who copied the other. The jurors...

Back in mid-April, the Toronto Police urged Canadian wireless carriers to create a registry to disable stolen cellphones, after U.S. carriers banded together with their government to form a central database. We've read numerous times of users resorting to Find my iPhone to locate their stolen iPhones and iPads. Ottawa Police recently noted the use...

Most likely in anticipation of the upcoming 'iPhone 5', Rogers, Bell and Telus have simultaneously reduced the price of the 16GB iPhone 4S to $99 on a 3 year term (regularly priced at $159), available in either black or white. The Rogers website just lists both black and white entry model iPhone 4S units as...

We've all seen movies involving robots, right? We all thought those days were far from near, but Double Robotics has invented a nifty iPad-controlled robot dubbed 'Double.' While this robot may not nearly include the far-fetched features of that in movies, Double will be very useful around offices, schools, and stores. Double, being controlled by...

Yesterday marked the grand opening of new Apple Stores in Halifax, Coquitlam and a new larger location for Market Mall in Calgary. All three stores had lines ups as expected, as the first 1000 visitors received a free commemorative t-shirt. The Halifax store had a slight glitch as power was lost early in the morning...

Having trouble deciding who has tied the knot on the Apple vs Samsung court case? I would suggest that you take a peek at The Joy Of Tech's  comical "Verdict-O-Matic." Although this info-graph wouldn't be the first chart I would turn to, I find it very comical and actually informational to those not paying much attention to the...

Yesterday, iOS hacker Pod2g highlighted an SMS spoofing exploit in iPhone that allows someone to send a text message but change the reply-to address of the text, as a result of which the recipient would receive a text message from someone trusted, but in actual it wouldn't be from that person. As the story broke, folks over at Engadget contacted Apple...