Welcome, to another Edition of our weekly roundup of Canadian Android News. This is the biggest and most relevant Android stories to come out over the past week, handpick just for you Canadians! How about that eh?! This week saw Amazon send some love Canada’s way and there’s going to be a shake up with
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When it comes to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 there has been a steady stream of announcements detailing companies whom have already rolled support the services as their enterprise mobility management solution. Canadian Tire Corporation, ING DIRECT, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Ricoh Canada and Torys LLP are already up and running and the momentum is continuing within North America. “We are placing BlackBerry 10 orders with our North American carriers,” said Claudette McGowan, Vice President, Digital Workspace Services, BMO Financial Group. “BlackBerry remains our enterprise standard and we’ve begun deploying within our environment.” “As a CIO, I know that when I give my employees a BlackBerry smartphone, everything is going to work with limited effort required by our IT administrators,” said Nigel Carpenter, Chief Information Officer, Canadian Diabetes Association. “For me, when it comes down to core business functionality, it’s a no brainer that BlackBerry is the only way to go.” For many organizations, the move into the new offerings is simply the logical choice. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 offers mobile device management, mobile application management and secure mobile connectivity, and delivers a cost-efficient and reliable solution for business customers. Read More
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The Financial Times is the latest publisher to strike a partnership with Flipboard. The deal is interesting because the FT recently left another third-party platform, iTunes.
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If you’re a Flipboard user, you’ll recall that the app was recently updated to let you create your own magazines. Unfortunately, this functionality was limited to the iOS version. This changes today, as Flipboard brings magazine curation to Android. Creating a magazine is simple: just tap the plus button visible on each article inside the app or use the bookmarklet when surfing the web
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T-Mobile USA’s first quarterly results of the year appears to show its Uncarrier campaign is working in attracting prepaid customers, though still lost high-earning postpaid accounts. Despite adding more customers overall, revenues for the quarter hit $4.68 billion, a drop of seven percent compared to $5.03 billion received for the same quarter last year.
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Recently the blogosphere has begun to coalesce around a common idea: OS X 10.9 is going to be delayed. Balderdash, I say. OS X 10.9 isn’t delayed, because Apple hasn’t announced a ship date for it. In fact, Apple hasn’t said much publicly about iOS 7 or OS X 10.9, except a passing comment from Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller, who mentioned that Apple would “get new versions of iOS and OS X” into the hands of developers at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco in June
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Newspapers are still around, unfortunately for trees, but we humans need the news. In this world of fibre optic internet, TV on demand, RSS feeds and Twitter, we still need to keep up to date with the world. Newspapers are still clinging to life, some are adapting, some are not. The News: UK Edition is a
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Apparently, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is more fragile than both its predecessor the Galaxy S3, and the Apple iPhone 5. This comes right at a time when many are questioning the build quality of Samsung’s premium handsets. SquareTrade rated the Galaxy S4 with a “breakability score” and during tests they identified that it would not
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For the first time, more messages are being sent via applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp and Viber than traditional texting. That’s the message of a new study which found that messages sent using such apps outnumbered those sent through carrier-based SMS in 2012. That lead is expected to widen this year as chat apps send
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TheBarclays Stockbroker CFD/FSTapp lets you trade on the move using Contact for Difference (CFD) and Financial Spread Tracking (FST) trading (e.g. leveraged trades in which you can go long or short on a market, specific share price, or other financial instrument). The app allows you to monitor the latest share prices and market movements, research prices via real-time charts, execute trades, view trading history, and view / amend multiple watch lists. The Barclays Stockbroker app is actually a rebranded version of the recently released City Indexand IFX apps, a result of Barclays Stockbrokers white labelling City Index Group’s trading service. While the City Index brand will likely be familiar to those who dabble in the stock market, the Barclays brand, thanks to its high street brankches and banking services, is better known amongst the general public.
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When it rains, it pours. And just like that we have another official app joining our quiver in the Windows Phone Store. Fidelity Investments, an American multinational financial services company, has just released an app for folks running Windows Phone 8 to download. Let’s check it out. Fidelity Investments joins apps like E*Trade for users wanting to track their portfolios while keeping an eye on the markets
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Verizon Wireless is currently a joint venture between Vodafone and Verizon Communications. Verizon owns 55 percent of the wireless carrier but has recently expressed interest in buying out Vodafone’s stake. Reuters said Thursday it learned that the company is currently mulling over a $100 billion offer to Vodafone for the remaining 45 percent of Verizon Wireless.
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As Nintendo’s fiscal year for 2013 is now closed, the company is reporting sales figures for its hardware and software. First up is the Wii U. Since launch, the Wii U has sold just over 3.45 million units. The company initially projected that it would hit 5.5 million, those estimates were then lowered to 4
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On Tuesday Apple reported a pretty solid set of financial results for Q2 fiscal 2013. Revenue was $43.6 billion, which is up 11% year over year. But it’s also fair to point out that earnings were down year over year.
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One of the perks of shopping online is the ability to get your goods tax-free at times. But that may be coming to an end soon. The U.S. Senate has agreed to move forward with a bill that would empower states to impose sales taxes to out-of-state retailers, including e-commerce sites. The measure — which
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Apple today announced their financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 (the months of January, February, and March). Apple brought in $9.5 billion in profit off of $43.6 billion in revenue. In previous years Apple offered conservative guidance on revenue and profits, though recently they made the switched to publishing a range into which they realistically expect the fiscal results to fall. And Apple’s results easily fell within that range. Those buckets of cash come courtesy of sales that included 37.4 million iPhones, 19.5 million iPads, and “just under 4 million” Macs
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It’s no secret that Apple hangs onto your Siri data for some length of time (as other companies so with search data and the like), but it hasn’t been clear exactly how long it keeps that data sitting on its servers. Wired has now cleared that up somewhat, though, hearing from Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller that the company “may keep anonymized Siri data for up to two years.” That word follows another report from Wired yesterday that raised concerns about the issue. As Muller notes, the data is immediately deleted if a user turns Siri off at any time, and it’s anonymized from the start; neither your Apple ID or email address are stored with a data, but rather a randomly generated number that represents the user and becomes associated with the voice files. That number then gets disassociated from voice clips after six months, but Apple still hangs onto the files for another 18 months for what’s described as testing and product improvement purposes
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Dell indicated that it would take Carl Icahn’s bid for the company seriously when it struck a deal with the billionaire investor earlier this week, and it may have more reason to do so now — multiple sources are reporting that Blackstone has now abandoned its rival offer. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone’s investors weren’t convinced of the deal’s merits, and felt that Dell’s value on the stock market is already fair. Blackstone’s deal would have included an option for shareholders to hold onto their stake. With the private-equity firm seemingly out of the picture, however, Dell’s committee may give further thought to Icahn’s bid, and founder Michael Dell’s chances of taking the company private himself have also received a..
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This morning Verizon Communications posted a great set of financial results for Q1. In the wireless business, Verizon added 667,000 new subscribers, activated 7.2 million smartphones and posted an 8.6% year over year rise in wireless service revenue. Out of the 7.2 million smartphones, Verizon disclosed that 4 million were iPhones. This means the other 3.2 million were some other platform, and we know the majority of these were Android phones, with a smaller mix of BlackBerry and Windows in there
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Verizon Communications reported its first quarter 2013 earnings on Thursday and noted revenue for the quarter was $29.4 billion, up 4.2 percent from the same quarter last year. The company also reported an EPS of $0.68, up from $0.59 during Q1 2012. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone, noted a 8.6
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