By Gadjo Sevilla,
Starting on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on April 3, at an Apple retail store. Canadians will need to wait until late April.
Lee Rickwood
Vancouver-based Canpages, the online local search firm, is launching a nation-wide contest for smart phone application developers on the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and web platforms.
by Lee Rickwood
If you didn’t watch the darkened skies over Vancouver, you may have missed the best tech show of all.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Windows Phone 7 Series is a departure from the usual and dated look of Windows Mobile which still resembles desktop Windows 95. For the new OS, Microsoft went back to the drawing board on everything from raw materials, to how the company works with their phone partners, to a complete redesign of the operating system.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Hooked on the 2010 Vancouver Olympics? So are we! We found not one but three apps that can keep us tuned in to this exciting and historical event.
Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Using Samsung’s Omnia II smartphone which is the official handset of the 2010 Olympics and which runs Windows Mobile 6.5, we took time to discover Bell’s Olympic offerings. The first application we tried out was Live TV which enables subscribed users real time access to ongoing events.
Featuring Ted Kritsonis
Gateway’s latest All-in-One PC offers a 23-inch multi-touchscreen, which is great at first, but you will find that the ZX6800 offers a lot more than some novelties at your fingertips. With a strong processor, solid RAM and plenty of hard drive space, this is a great desktop PC for under $1,000.
Text and photo by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Canadians purchased more than 83 million IT products – eight per cent lower than the year before – at an average price of $56 per unit. The most popular among these items was the computer notebook, which came down 15 per cent in average price, fuelling a 31 per cent rise in the total units sold.