Category: Featured

Need to Board Your Pets? Here are 4 Apps That Can Help

By Christine Persaud
They say that pets can ground you more than kids. So much so, in fact, that pet sitting service Pawshake found in a survey last year that 56% of pet owners were prepared to cancel holiday plans if they couldn’t find someone suitable to take care of their pet while they were away.

High-Tech Toys on TV Inspire Gadget Gift-Giving Ideas

High-Tech Toys on TV Inspire Great Gadget- and Gift-Giving Ideas

by Lee Rickwood
Not all of the gadgets they will describe during a week of shows next week are available for purchase right now; some are more like inspirational ideas and teasers to the shape of tech things to come. Some are designed by major manufacturers to address real world problems; some are just fun ideas from imaginative inventors.

Successful Canadian start-ups weigh in on how to excel at Go North Summit

By Gadjo C. Sevilla

“The Canadian startup scene is electrifying,” said Google Canada’s Managing Director Sam Sebastian who opened up the summit by citing some of the unique success stories from Canadian innovators. Sebastian explained that next to Silicon Valley, “the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor has the most number of start-ups.”

Reviewing the Alcatel Idol 4 and Pixi 4

By Ted Kritsonis

These two latest smartphones from Alcatel are targeted at consumers looking to save a few bucks without having to lose too much on features and functionality. There are plenty of trade-offs in making that work, and one of them delivers on that more than the other.

4 great cloud sites for startups

By Christine Persaud
If you’re a business start-up, chances are you don’t have tons of money to spare on sophisticated local back-up storage, or remote servers. And even so, using the cloud can also be a great secondary safeguard for your sensitive and important data. But which service should you choose?

How Microsoft, ASUS, and HP are challenging Apple in PC design

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple is still very much the leading hardware designer for notebooks and PC’s but it is no longer alone.

The same high level of build as well as premium materials are also being showcased by PC manufacturers who are attracting users with their new products.

5 Simple Ways to Lock and Protect Data on a Phone

By Christine Persaud
We’ve moved well beyond the simple password and PIN for security of our electronic devices. And nowhere does that hold as true as when it comes to your phone.