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Justin Bieber in legal battle over Joustin Beaver video game
It’s a nickname schoolyard bullies back in Stratford might have used: Joustin Beaver. It’s also the name of a video game that challenges players to sign as many “otter-graphs” as possible while...
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Cruising for bros on Bromance
In the spring of 2009 an app changed gay hook up culture. It was called Grindr. Like Manhunt and Adam4Adam before it, the app aimed to connect gay men looking for sex. But unlike its website...
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App-alling
While K&K still toils away on its four-year-old Motorola RAZR flip-phone—that’s just the way we roll, dawg—the rest of the world has gone iPhone, Android and iPad crazy, downloading apps, sexting...
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Angry Birds cartoon confirmed at MIP TV 2012
An Angry Birds animated series is scheduled to debut this fall. Rovio’s head of animation, Nick Dorra, has confirmed that the company has created 52 short Angry Birds episodes. Each will be under three...
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The n00b’s guide to Instagram for Android
With over 1 million downloads on its first day in the Android Market Google Play shop, Instagram for Android is the hottest app this week. The long-awaited and highly successful photo-filtration/social...
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Tradyo takes anonymity out of the mobile marketplace
Craigslist counters a lesson every child learns. We’ve all been told not to take candy from strangers, so why do we meet up in parking lots to buy used iPhones from them? It’s a problem Gideon Hayden...
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Flixel is the Instagram of animated photos
With the news this week that Facebook plans to buy Instagram for $1 billion, the spotlight is on social photography apps. Now a Canadian company is taking photo sharing a step further with an app for...
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Silicon Six: Tradyo’s Gideon Hayden and Eran Henig and the hunt for venture...
PALO ALTO— Ron Conway is driving in downtown San Francisco when he’s spotted. Eran Henig and Gideon Hayden pull a U-turn and chase Conway’s car. The two young entrepreneurs speed up as Conway, one of...
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Vancouver agency pairs with USPC to create new casino app
The United States Playing Card Company has joined together with a Vancouver-based mobile marketing agency, Digi117, to create a new company called Zeniz. The company’s main initiative is Casino by...
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Kytephone transforms smartphones into a kid friendly zone
Five months ago Renat Gataullin was in a park on the California coast. He was with the two co-founders of his company, some friends and their nephews. They were flying kites when an idea came to them....
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Medical apps promote patient self-care, could ease burden on health system
By Sheryl Ubelacker TORONTO – When Sara Nita’s son Marcus was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last fall, she began keeping a written log of his multiple daily blood-sugar readings. But she soon started...
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Web publishers caught in mobile wars
By Bill Rigby SEATTLE – For Microsoft Corp., and Amazon.com, and the clutch of other companies that hope to carve out a big slice of a mobile computing business currently dominated by Apple Inc., the...
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MMA Crossfire – Big John McCarthy unveils MMA Fight Club app
MMA referee Big John McCarthy launched a new fan interaction betting app November 12th that allows fans to test their knowledge of MMA against each other and MMA legends. Available for Apple iPhones...
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Give your brain a workout with this app
Gillian Shaw As the new year rolls out, many of us have rolled off the couch and into our local gyms where fitness trainers push us to build muscle tone and endurance. But what about our brain? It’s...
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Vancouver app uses GPS to put runners into smartphone game
James Keller VANCOUVER — Tapping into technology has long been part of the routine for runners like Craig Slagel, from using stopwatches to digital music players to sophisticated GPS trackers. But...
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App lets you report parking violations for a cut of the fine
Chinta Puxley WINNIPEG – Some entrepreneurial Winnipeggers are set to unleash an army of bounty hunters keen on nabbing people who park in disabled parking spots without a permit or in front of a fire...
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You will want to watch this Vine for hours
Twitter’s six-second video platform has one advantage over its rivals like Instagram and YouTube: people on Vine are just more creative. For proof, check out the clip below, uploaded last Thursday by...
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This app wakes you up at your subway stop
I’ve dozed off on the subway on more than one occasion, but thankfully, I always regained conciousness before missing my subway stop. This is where MetroNap, an app created by New York-based developer...
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Instagram to start showing ads in your feed
Three years after the launch of Instagram, the photo-sharing service is finally planning on making some money by introducing ads into the feeds of its 150 million users. The company made the...
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Sponsored content: Mobile apps bring new immediacy to travel
Canadian businessman Jory Groberman was recently awakened in the middle of the night by a notification from his favourite travel app (www.expedia.com/app), informing him his early morning flight to...
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