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CBC - Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 ING Direct has launched a new feature of its mobile app that allows its customers to remotely deposit cheques into their bank account using a smartphone or tablet.

  • Google buys Waze mapping app CBC - Wed, 12 Jun, 2013

    Google Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it has closed the deal to purchase Waze, the Israeli user-sourced traffic and navigation app, ending months of specualtion about rival bids for the start-up from Google, Apple and Facebook.

  • Phil Schiller the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple introduces the new Mac Pro during the keynote address of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 10, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

    SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007.

  • Google Inc. is expected to announce its purchase of Waze, the Israeli user-sourced traffic and navigation app, this week for more than $1 billion US, according to several media sources.

  • Screengrab from The Transit App website

    It’s been a bit of a rough ride for navigation software on the iPhone. Since Apple dropped Google Maps with iOS 6, users have been trying to find that Holy Grail app that replaces its functionality, as many just aren’t … Continue reading →

  • Steve Boutilier, a computer programmer in Lower Sackville, says he used to rely on neighbours to get the day right. Now, his app tells him whether it is a grabage or green bin day.

    For some people in the Halifax Regional Municipality who have trouble remembering whether it's a garbage or green bin week — there's now an app for that.

  • WASHINGTON - Andrew "Bo" Young III, son of former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, is carving out his own path for social change courtesy of a mobile app designed to help real families through the purchase of virtual goods.

  • Sophie Perceval has no intention of comparing her startup to something as big as Tumblr, so I will. Perceval is the co-founder of Wondereur, a Toronto-based firm whose Web and iPad app allows consumers to share stories about artists and … Continue …

  • The Xbox One competitors Microsoft may have overlooked Fin - Dashboard - CA - Wed, 22 May, 2013
    Don Mattrick, President of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft opens the presentation during a press event unveiling Microsoft's new Xbox in Redmond

    Maybe people will put down their iPads when they turn on their Xbox Ones. But I doubt it. This is a multi-device, multi-app, multi-platform, multi-purpose era. Microsoft needs to recognize that. Continue …

  • By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks. The Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the bard's poetry through …

  • An iPod Touch is shown with the App store on its screen in Toronto, January 13, 2011. A business professor has discovered that last month's federal budget contained a five-per-cent increase in the tariff on iPods, as well as tricycles and wigs often used by cancer patients. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

    And we have a winner! After 13 days of watching the counter tick up, Apple has now sold its 50 billionth app in the App Store. The winner is a man from Mentor, Ohio by the name of Brandon Ashmore, … Continue reading →

  • CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.

  • A cellphone app is being credited for helping save the lives of a pair of ducklings in Windsor, Ont.

  • A cellphone app is being credited for helping save the lives of a pair of ducklings in Windsor, Ont.

  • Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney shows off a new mobile app in Toronto on Monday, May 6, 2013 for those with post-traumatic stress disorder. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel

    TORONTO - The roll-out of a new smartphone app and money for a two-year study should go some distance toward helping Canadian veterans and others cope with post-traumatic stress disorder, the federal government announced Monday.

  • People walk past the Apple logo near an Apple Store at a shopping area in central Beijing

    If you’ve been mulling downloading something from Apple’s App Store, today would be a great day to do it: Apple will be awarding a prize to the person who gets Apple to the 50-billion download milestone. Apple currently has a … Continue reading →

  • A free app enables a smartphone to read information such as a credit card number, expiry date and cardholder name by simply holding the smartphone over the card.

    It seems like there's a smartphone app for everything these days — including one that could be used to steal your credit card information.

  • Neon lights on Granville St. in Vancouver are shown in a handout photo. The Museum of Vancouver is set to launch an app offering guided walking tours that highlight neon signs in two neighbourhoods - Granville and Chinatown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO

    VANCOUVER - The Museum of Vancouver is set to launch an app offering guided walking tours that highlight neon signs in two neighbourhoods — Granville and Chinatown.

  • Facebook Home comes to Canada via Google Play store The Canadian Press - Tue, 16 Apr, 2013

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Facebook users in Canada and around the world will be able to download the new Facebook Home app via the Google Play store as of Tuesday, the company said.

  • An employee serves a guest at the reception counter inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group said on Monday it will subsidize handset makers that adopt its mobile operating system and will set up a 1 billion yuan ($161.49 million) fund that will dole out incentives for application (app) makers to populate its mobile app ecosystem. Alibaba launched its own mobile operating system, …

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