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 Social networking comes to your favourite bus stop in Vancouver and TorontoBus stop 50771 sits outside a coffee shop in Vancouver's trendy Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, where on a recent weekend, a transit rider with a smartphone witnessed a simple act of kindness.
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 KitKat app gives break from social media stressNestle, purveyor of the decades-old KitKat snack, has launched an app it says addresses a growing problem among young social media users--giving them a break from the stress of posting updates by doing it for them.
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 Stopping cellphone use in Canadian jailsA parliamentary committee is encouraging further exploration of the use of technology, including cellphone-jamming devices, as a way to combat the smuggling of drugs into Canada's prisons.
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 In Canada, phones poised to challenge credit cardsThousands of Canadian retailers already have equipment in place to let customers pay for purchases with a swipe of their mobile phones, putting the country in the lead in developing a system that could one day make cash obsolete.
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 B.C. man in cellphone hellCellphone purgatory is having your phone ring with hundreds of faxes intended for somebody else, says a frustrated B.C. businessman.
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 App lets users shop Coachella fashionsThanks to a new fashion-meets-e-commerce app called Kaleidoscope, Sunday night’s festival-goers will be able to browse, and buy from, a shoppable gallery of street-style photographs taken over the previous 72 hours.
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 Samsung Galaxy S to be unveiled May 3Samsung has said on it will unveil the third-generation of its flagship smartphone Galaxy S on May 3 in London, banking on a heavy marketing campaign heading into the summer Olympics in the city.
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 Google Project Glass created a pair of Google GogglesGoogle Inc is getting into the eyewear business with a pair of thin wraparound shades that puts the company's Web services in your face.
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 Samsung eyes African smartphone growthSamsung Electronics Co aims to double its share of the sub-Saharan smartphone market to 20 percent by next year, as it focuses on affordable handsets, the head of its Africa business said on Thursday.
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 Developers like Apple bestApple has cemented its dominance as the most popular mobile platform among application developers while Google's Android has receded and Research In Motion's devices plunged anew, according to a quarterly survey that may signal sales trends for mobile devices.
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 PayPal lets shops take payments on smartphonesOnline financial transactions titan PayPal has started to allow merchants across the world to take payments using smartphones in a direct challenge to startup Square.
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 Raising cyber-children - safelyAdvice about sleep training or separation anxiety is easy to find. But good information about whether or how to keep an 11-year-old off Facebook is far harder to come by.
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 Dissected iPad reveals Samsung, Qualcomm partsApple’s new iPad uses chips made by Qualcomm, Broadcom , Samsung Electronics and other semiconductor makers, according to a firm that cracked open one of the devices.
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 Movie industry embraces an old enemy: the cellphoneLooking to buck the line at the Regency Bruin in Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood? It’s fine if you bring your smartphone.
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 Traditional computers not obsoleteWhile iPads and other tablets are getting a lot of press, laptops and even towers have their fans.
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 iPhoto app comes to Apple's mobile devicesFor years, Apple's iPhoto has been the go-to software for Mac owners looking to catalog photos and make simple edits to pictures.
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 What the wireless sell off means for youAnand Ram: The government's 700 megahertz auction has benefits for the consumer eventually, although the government gets immediate political gain.
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 Smartphones, laptops easy to trace but hard to recoverThe rising toll of tech thefts is spawning tales across the Internet of "geek justice" that tell how savvy victims use Wi-Fi signals, webcams and software to track down people who steal their stuff.
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 New iPad prompts app tweaks by developersSoftware developers are salivating over prospects for the new iPad, which sold out online within two days of its unveiling and won’t ship now for up to three weeks.
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 RIM launches keyboard for PlayBook tabletBlackBerry maker Research In Motion launched a keyboard on Tuesday that will couple with its poor-selling PlayBook tablet, and it hopes the potential for improved productivity earns it kudos among key office workers who have embraced Apple’s iPad.
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 Former Microsoft exec says world is over PCsRay Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp's tech visionary, believes the world has moved past the personal computer, potentially leaving behind the world's largest software company.
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 New Apple iPad has superior HDApple Inc.'s latest iPad will be available March 16, and pre-orders are being taken immediately.
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 CeBIT 2012: Water-powered clocks and eye-controlled arcadeWater-powered clocks, eye-controlled arcade games and pole-dancing robots: this year's CeBIT tech fair, the world's biggest, showcased gadgets ranging from the useful to the downright nerdy.
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 Google rebrands Android Market as Google Play StoreGoogle Inc is renaming its online storefront for music, books and digital goods, its latest move to raise its profile in the market for electronic content sales and to better compete with Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc.
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 Apple iPad 3 may be 4G game changerApple Inc is betting a 4G-equipped iPad will tempt more U.S. consumers to pay extra to watch high-quality video on the go, and in turn, give Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc a revenue boost.
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