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.
Tag: apps
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.
Canadian Tech Companies Combine to Deliver Live Immersive 360 6K Video
By Lee Rickwood
While multi-camera rigs can and have been used to create very similar immersive content, with this particular system, only one camera is required to capture a real-time live 360-degree experience, thanks to unique lenses and processing algorithms developed in Canada
The best new standalone health trackers
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Many smartwatches have basic activity tracking features and even integrate heart rate monitors to get a read of a user’s activity level and exertion. Smartwatches, however, have to do a lot more and need to manage apps, notifications and act as a GPS, remote control and still tell time.
A Toast to Wireless Technology, New Smartphone Apps
By Lee Rickwood
Smart Spirits: ultra-premium vodka is being marketed in a new bottle with a customizable LED message band controlled by Bluetooth technology and a smartphone app.