Apple Camp Canada now accepting kids aged 8-12 for free three-day creative workshop

Apple Camp is now accepting applications from creative kids ages 8-12 to learn how to shoot their own footage, create an original song in GarageBand on an iPad, and put it all together in iMovie on a Mac. This FREE workshop, held at participating Apple Retail Stores, spans three days and ends with campers debuting their masterpieces at the Apple Camp Film Festival. Kids will learn the rudiments of filmmaking, from concept to soundtrack, storyboard, shooting, production and editing. Children will have to be accompanied by their parents.

Review: BlackBerry Q10

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

As a modern BlackBerry loaded with the much awaited QWERTY keyboard, the Q10 is one of the most anticipated smartphones in the market. Featuring a brand new BB10 operating system,  a snappy multi-touch screen plus the familiar BlackBerry keyboard, the Q10 merges RIM's past and future. I find out if it is worth the wait.

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Breaking: MS Office comes to iPhone but 365 subscription is required and nothing for iPad

The much awaited Microsoft Office app has finally come to the iPhone but with caveats.  Users need to have an Office 365 account in order to use it, and there's no version for Apple's iPad, which is the mobile device that would most benefit from having MS Office running natively.

The reason for this could be that Microsoft Office is the key differentiator of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet which is an iPad competitor and which has the only version of MS Office on any mobile tablet. Giving the iPad a version of MS Office would instanly bring it one step closer to its post-PC aspirations but that might mean even less Surface RT sales for Microsoft. 

Olympus issuing firmware updates for various PEN and OM-D models

Olympus recently announced the release of new firmware for the PEN E-PL5 and PEN E-PM2 which offers the following improvements: Improved stability of touch panel operation during playback and support for new VF-4 electronic viewfinder (automatic display switching by the VF-4 eye sensor is not supported)

New firmware has also been released for the OM-D E-M5, PEN E-P2, E-P3, E-PL1, E-PL2, E-PL3, E-PM1 and XZ-2 which offers support for new VF-4 electronic viewfinder (Automatic display switching by the VF-4 eye sensor is not supported). Hit jump to see how to upgrade your Olympus camera.

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Apple launches new AirPort Extremes, pushes 802.11ac wireless standard

One of the announcements at this week's WWDC in San Francisco was an updated line of AirPort Extreme base stations supporting the 802.11ac WiFi standard that's coming to the new MacBook Airs as well as the Mac Pro. Capable of 1.3 Gbps streams, or 3X the current limit of WiFi streaming, the new base stations also offer double the channel bandwidth, with 80MHz-wide channels providing more room for more data to flow faster than ever. A new Beamforming feature, helps assign more bandwidth as needed to devices instead of spreading the signal evenly.  Capable of supporting up to 50 users, the new base stations offer three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports and one WAN port plus USB 2.0. The new AirPort Extremes are also smaller at around 6-inche high, they have a new rectangular form factor. AirPort Extreme costs $199.

SlideShow: The best moments of WWDC 2013

Apple's WWDC 2013 revealed the biggest change to iOS since 2007, Mac OS X Mavericks, new MacBook Airs and a surprise new MacBook Pro. Here are some of our favourite moments from day 1. 

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