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iPhone in Canada's visit to the Microsoft Store at University Village in Seattle When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn't dropping the gauntlet against Apple at their annual Worldwide Partners Conference (held in Toronto), they confirmed a retail store would open at upscale Yorkdale Mall in Toronto before the end of this year, as reported by...

Image via the Vancouver Sun Back in May, we reported on Samsung's announcement of its plans to open its first Canadian retail store in Vancouver. Two months later, it looks like the store has been completed. Our friend Gillian Shaw from the Vancouver Sun happened to get a sneak peek at Canada's first Samsung retail...

I love gaming on my iPhone. The size, portability and game titles make it the perfect go to gaming device for me. But over the years I've found some games just aren't optimized for the touch screen. They'd be better off with some sort of physical controls and buttons. The iCade Mobile from iON solves...

A couple of days back, Apple seeded the final beta a.k.a Golden Master of OS X Mountain Lion to developers, which is mostly likely going to be the same as the initial public release. Turns out, Apple has now officially dropped support for some older 64-bit Macs that do support OS X Lion (via Ars Technica). As...

Last week, Bloomberg published a report regarding Amazon's plans to develop a smartphone targeting the iPhone and now, Amazon has officially announced its own gaming experience for Kindle Fire called the GameCircle as a direct competition to Apple's Game Center (via 9to5Mac). Amazon’s GameCircle, which clearly draws cues from Apple’s Game Center, is geared specifically for game developers. The new game...

Apple is set to open 40 new retail stores this year alone. As a result, the company is now among one of the few retailers that are hiring employees in a big way. However, the Cupertino giant pays close attention to how it hires winning personalities for its industry leading retail stores, reveals an interesting story by The Forbes. The...

One of my favourite push notification services, Boxcar, has been down and out over the past few months and it has gotten progressively worse. I've long noted about the downtime on twitter and just today The Next Web highlights the Boxcar website no longer is up and running, along with users being unable to connect...

According to a report from the Globe and Mail, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is set to be the first bank to offer a mobile digital wallet to Canadians, with a debut slated for October of this year: Royal Bank of Canada is expected to be first into the market in October, when it...

TomTom has released the results of their TomTom Congestion Index, an initiative that started in 2007 with the purpose of revealing real-life driving patterns captured by anonymous user data around the world. The company notes they have built the world's largest database of historic travel times and the most detailed and accurate real-time traffic info...

In an exclusive interview with CRN held in Toronto, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some tough words against fellow tech rival Apple. He noted Microsoft in the past had "ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation" to Apple but with the upcoming release of the Surface, that will soon change. "We are trying...

Earlier this week it was reported Apple had removed itself from registering its products via EPEAT, an environmental rating system. Apple has responded to concerns over their withdrawal from EPEAT in a statement released to The Loop: “Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact and all of our products meet the strictest...

The folks over at Gotta Be Mobile have posted purported images of an engineering sample for the next generation iPhone 5: Exclusive photos of an iPhone 5 engineering sample straight from a factory in China show the new phone will be slightly taller, slightly thinner and about the same width. A trusted source inside the...