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Extreme Gadgets for Active Users
May 14, 2012 – 3:37 pm
Extreme Gadgets for Active Users

 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Aside from competing in specs and pricing, many gadgets have differentiated themselves by catering to the action market with tough, water-resistant and temperature resistant features.

High Tech in the Gallery: Digital Screens Challenge Painters’ Canvas
May 7, 2012 – 11:13 am
High Tech in the Gallery: Digital Screens Challenge Painters’ Canvas

Mobile technology and digital media devices are taking over the spaces normally reserved for watercolours, oils and clay. In fact, the art itself is migrating to the Web, where online art collections rival those housed inside bricks-and-mortar institutions.

by Lee Rickwood

RIM looks to Rebound with BB10 and new leadership
May 3, 2012 – 3:12 pm
RIM looks to Rebound with BB10 and new leadership

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Orlando, FL – This year’s BlackBerry World conference became the launchpad for a new regime at RIM as well as a bold new mobile strategy.

Keek at the Intersection of Social Networking, Mobile Media, TV Watching
May 1, 2012 – 9:50 am
Keek at the Intersection of Social Networking, Mobile Media, TV Watching

Folks in the Twitter-verse have found some ways to get attention in a short space (although controversy and obscenity seem top techniques right now, there are some short, substantive comments out there), here’s hoping Keek-ers can do the same.

by Lee Rickwood

Do you know what Apple’s AirPlay actually does?
April 30, 2012 – 1:57 pm
Do you know what Apple’s AirPlay actually does?

By Ted Kritsonis

Most products or services Apple comes out with usually carry plenty of buzz with them, but there are a few that take a little time to resonate with people. AirPlay is one of them. As a seamless technology for streaming music, photos and video between compatible devices, it’s arguably one of the easiest features to use.

Smart TVs can transform surveillance with online connectivity
April 23, 2012 – 10:08 am
Smart TVs can transform surveillance with online connectivity

By Lee Rickwood

The biggest and brightest TVs out there — now called smart TVs — have Wi-Fi, Ethernet and high speed Internet connectivity, and each one is a potentially open door into not just your viewing habits.

Will Apple’s new iPad usher in the Post PC Era?
April 20, 2012 – 11:01 am
Will Apple’s new iPad usher in the Post PC Era?

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
With its new iPad, Apple is declaring a post-PC future where tablet’s can satisfy the computing needs of most people. The iPad is aspiring to become  everything a computer user needs.

Countdown to summer: free Android apps to start your spring training
April 16, 2012 – 6:48 am
Countdown to summer: free Android apps to start your spring training

By Kiel Hume

The world of apps features something for everyone. Our smart phone and tablet devices are thoroughly integrated into every aspect of life, so it just makes sense that your device will offer a variety of apps for fitness.

HP Envy 14 Spectre Notebook Reviewed
April 12, 2012 – 2:14 pm
HP Envy 14 Spectre Notebook Reviewed

Text and Photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The HP Envy 14 Spectre is a heady combination of aluminum, rubber and Gorilla Glass. We also have the latest Core i5 or i7 processors and fast SSD drives.

Trade-in programs for your used mobile phones
April 11, 2012 – 1:30 pm
Trade-in programs for your used mobile phones

By Ted Kritsonis

Increased adoption and shorter lifespans for mobile phones have led to a large number of devices festering in consumers’ homes, and while eBay, Kijiji and Craigslist are always options for reselling handsets, some carriers and major retailers are offering trade-in programs for either cash or credit towards a new phone.

Defunct Flip camera software to delete all uploaded videos by April 15
April 10, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Defunct Flip camera software to delete all uploaded videos by April 15

By Ted Kritsonis

It’s been a year since Cisco announced that it would discontinue the Flip pocket video camera, and with it gone from store shelves, videos previously uploaded to the FlipShare video storage and sharing software will be deleted for good on April 15, but there is an alternative to keeping them alive.

Parrot shows two premium products coming to Canada
March 30, 2012 – 12:27 pm
Parrot shows two premium products coming to Canada

By Ted Kritsonis

Parrot may be better known in some circles as a company that does a lot of Bluetooth and audio products for vehicles, but at an event in Toronto this week, they showed off the AR.Drone 2.0, a smartphone-controlled quadrotor helicopter and the Zik, the company’s first set of wireless headphones.