Mobile Concierge Service Adds to Yorkdale’s Retail Experience
By Yasmin Ranade
Yorkdale is one of the first Canadian shopping centres to offer shoppers access to guest services teams via text or online messaging.
Tag: smartphone
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.
BlackBerry PRIV review – How BlackBerry’s first Android stacks up
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The PRIV, which takes its name from privacy and privilege, however, is much more than a rehash of the old BlackBerry Torch’s ethos, it is a truly innovative device that puts a safety net around the Android OS.
Going wireless: Bluetooth earbuds compared
By Ted Kritsonis
The term “cutting the cord” usually refers to cable and satellite subscriptions, but wires are slowly being cut out of in-ear headphones (or earbuds) because of Bluetooth wireless streaming. Now that there is a greater level of choice, how do some of the latest models stack up?
Napster finding new life as a music streaming service
By Ted Kritsonis
Remember Napster? The software application that once pioneered the idea of sharing music files in the late 90s and early 2000s is back in Canada. Only this time, it’s as a subscription-based music streaming service, not a peer-to-peer network.
Affordable mid-range smartphones to choose from
By Ted Kritsonis
Smartphones are pretty expensive when looking at the higher end of the scale, but the majority of handsets available are either in the mid-range or lower. Despite not having the hype or specs of more popular models, their sophistication has grown to a point where they are not only serviceable, but also reliable and robust.
The Megapixel Myth: Why more megapixels don’t necessarily mean better pictures
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
We’re actually at a point where smartphones now match, and in some cases surpass, the megapixel count on point-and-shoot cameras as well as many mirrorless cameras that accept interchangeable lenses.
Canadian Tech Develops New Mobile Education App for Kids in Developing Countries
By Lee Rickwood
The initiative is one of several to target education and access needs in poorer countries around the world, by the way: perhaps most well-known is the One Laptop per Child Initiative, but also the so-called ‘Zedu-pad’ program, active in disparate countries such as Afghanistan and Zambia, respectively.