Google Navigation now working on Canadian Android phones

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google has finally allowed their navigation function to work in Canada and 10 more countries. This makes your Android device (OS version 1.6 and higher only) a lot cooler and way more useful. After downloading some language packs, we briefly tested the Google Navigation on our Android 2.1 powered Motorola Milestone and it worked just as well and in some cases even better than our  standalone GPS.

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Canadian designed lasers light up the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show

Phoro by Touchdown Entertainment Inc, / Brad Dun
The Super Bowl half-time performance has become one of the music industry’s highest profile events, with recent acts such as Prince, U2, Greenday, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones and Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson plus Sir Paul McCartney taking part. Did you know that the pyro and the lasers were provided by a Canadian company? Read on and find out more about the awesome tech of big show effects.

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CIBC first in Canada to bring mobile banking to iPhone

CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) recently released the first mobile banking application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

CIBC’s Mobile Banking App is now available for free from the Apple App Store, offering greater flexibility and choice for CIBC clients to bank on the go by becoming the first major bank in Canada to offer a mobile banking App for iPhone. The App gives CIBC clients the flexibility to use their iPhone or iPod touch to check account balances, transfer funds, pay bills and even send INTERAC Email Money Transfers.

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