Over the lunch hour on March 28, Virgin Mobile Canada hosted “Love-Fest” at Bay and Bloor in Toronto. The “flash mob” event was to get Facebook to add a “love” button so people can not just “like” something, but “love” it. After all, “like” isn’t as strong an adjective as “love”. Dozens of people braved the […]
According to reports from sources like the Globe and Mail, Research in Motion’s long-awaited Playbook is now available for pre-order at BestBuy as of today, March 22, 2011. The official North American launch date for the device is April 19. This is a little later than expected – the rumoured launch date was some time […]
Internet Explorer 9 launched just a couple of days ago and over the first 24 hours, received over 2.3 million downloads. The new version of the browser which is supposed to better compete with the likes of Chrome and Firefox, is much more streamlined and unlike IE8, tabs located right next to the address bar. […]
While RIM still has NOT announced PlayBook’s release date (rumours are circulating that it’s April 10 or AFTER iPad 2’s release), they’re slowly letting the outside world know what one would find on the device. Recently, they announced some of the media apps, whic include Music Store by 7digital as well as podcasting among other things. […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz I recently upgraded my BlackBerry’s operating system to OS 6, which is used on all of the new devices. My BlackBerry is over a year old and ran on OS 5 until last Thursday. While I was happy with OS 5, I was curious to see what I could get out of […]
While the lighter and skinnier device sounds great as it makes the iPad even more portable, the upcoming iPad 2 does not support or have many of what they were rumoured to. For example, there’s no Flash support on their browser, nor are there USB or SD slots – meaning that those who want to edit […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz Steve Jobs, who looked amazingly healthy, was on hand at the announcement today. The iPad 2 will not only be thinner (8.8 mm thick – thinner than an iPhone 4) and lighter (1.3 lb) and faster (up to nine times faster using the same 10 hour battery life), but will be coming to stores […]
The iPad2 is being announced on Wednesday. In addition to Apple’s products, many other tablets have launched or will be launching later this year. Do you have a tablet? What do you use it for?
Cynthia Cheng Mintz Well, UberSocial is back now, complete with ring tone alerts (an updated app was created this morning due to a glitch in the one released last night). During the Great Uber Outtage of 2011 this past weekend, I tried two alternatives Twitter alternatives on my Blackberry, HootSuite and SocialScope. Both apps, unlike UberSocial or […]
Cynthia Cheng Mintz The Blackberry app formerly known as ÜberTwitter was reactivated Sunday evening under its new name, ÜberSocial. However, one issue still remains. Ringtone alerts don’t appear in Blackberry settings, meaning that users do not know whether they have new mentions or direct messages unless they actually look at their devices. There is no […]
