Desperate times ahead for RIM
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla The Canadian smartphone innovator can’t release new handsets until 2013, is cutting 5,000 jobs and facing losses of $518 million. What’s next for Research In Motion?
Category: Mobile
Toshiba’s TV apps take control of the monster in the living room
Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Toshiba Canada revealed new apps that work with their HDTV’s to use tablets and smartphones as wireless controls for your home theatre system.
Sony to launch Internet Player with Google TV in Canada
By Ted Kritsonis
Sony has announced that it will be launching the Sony Internet Player with Google TV in Canada in August, with pre-orders starting on June 27. The new player will be a small set top box that connects to a TV and provides access to Internet-based television channels, a Chrome web browser, YouTube and thousands of apps.
Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone launch delayed in Canada
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Samsung’s Galaxy S III is an anticipated smartphone. But it seems that Canadians will need to wait a little longer to get it.
What goes into making one of TomTom’s maps?
By Ted Kritsonis
TomTom has become a renowned brand for mapping and navigation, but getting to that point required mapping and updating the geography to help drivers get to where they wanted to go. At an exclusive press event in the Caribbean island of Martinique, we got a firsthand look at what goes into mapping a place virtually from scratch.
WWDC 2012 – iOS 6, Mountain Lion and new MacBooks revealed
Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla San Francisco- Apple Inc. focused on its key strengths today at the Worldwide Developers Conference by launching iOS 6, Mountain Lion and showing off a revamped notebook line.
Can the Ooma Telo fully replace your landline?
By Ted Kritsonis
The Ooma Telo is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device that uses your home’s broadband Internet connection to provide an alternative to a traditional landline. And it does so at a fraction of the cost, but is it easy enough to uproot your landline and replace it with technology like this?
Google Drive: Cloud service or emerging OS?
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Google Drive is a free synching and file storage service that is the foundation for a comprehensive cloud service. Google’s big cloud initiative is starting to form more cohesively.