5 Great Business Productivity Apps
By Christine Persaud
When it comes to business and productivity, there are plenty of apps that can help simplify and improve the workflow process. Here’s a roundup of five great ones.
Tag: apps
IF automates functions to make your smartphone smarter
By Ted Kritsonis
You may not know it, but some of your apps can communicate with each other without much thought put into it. Automated apps are capable of bringing together disparate elements of the connectivity you have and live with to create situations where one action can trigger an event or function, like uploading photos or turning on lights automatically.
In 2016, music streaming may see more consolidation
By Ted Kritsonis
Music streaming is set to be the biggest revenue stream for the music industry, which has seen a two-thirds decline in overall revenue from an all-time high 15 years ago. With that kind of profile, it seems only inevitable that cannibalization will knock down the overall number of players in the streaming business further this year.
Telus Launches App to Provide Mental Wellness Coaching
By Christine Persaud
Telus launched its thinkFull app to provide mental wellness coaching for people who may be feeling stressed, depressed, or overwhelmed.
Canadians Making Social Media Safer for Kids
By Yasmin Ranade
VISR is a mobile and desktop app that aims to create a safer online world for families. Parents are notified in a time-sensitive manner when relevant safety issues come up across six supported social networks, including YouTube, Instagram, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and KidsEmail.
Review: Sonos Play:5 is a bold successor
By Ted Kritsonis
Sonos is back, and it has brought a new-and-improved Play:5 speaker to market that promises to deliver bigger, bolder sound in an elegant package that could fit in almost anywhere. The results are highly encouraging, and may be good enough to woo both current Sonos users and newcomers.
New Sports App Gets $1M to Drive Fan Engagement, Not eGaming or Fantasy Gambling
By Lee Rickwood
Fantasy sports and gaming apps are getting a lot of attention these days, both good and bad. But it’s another kind of sports application from Canadian developers that’s turning heads and attracting both followers and funders.
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Poverty Hackathon: Toronto and Nairobi, November 20-22
By Yasmin Ranade
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Poverty Hackathon is a Devs Without Borders 28-hour event that brings charitable minded developers from Toronto and Nairobi together – simultaneously – to build web and mobile applications in education, business and farming for people living in rural and impoverished areas in East Africa. The winning solution gets real exposure, and will be implemented by Free The Children in rural Kenya.