FileMaker 13 launches, enabling custom solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web

FileMaker unveiled the next-generation platform for business productivity: FileMaker 13. The new software makes it even faster and easier than ever for teams to create gorgeous, tailored business solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web that deliver significant productivity gains.

FileMaker has always made powerful and intuitive database applications on Macs and PCs as well as for iOS. The Apple subsidiary is taking things to a whole new level with their FileMaker 13 platform which is launching today for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the Web.

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Twerking Miley, Mayor Rob Ford and BlackBerry are most searched topics on Yahoo Canada

Yahoo Canada revealed its ninth annual Year in Review, highlighting the stories, events, and personalities Canadians were preoccupied with or searched for throughout the year on Yahoo.  Based on Yahoo Search data, the much-anticipated top 10 Search lists look back at the news, scandals, trendsetters, and heartbreaks that fascinated Canadians in 2013.

"Yahoo Canada's Year in Review offers Canadians a glimpse into the newsmakers and stories that captured their attention, based on their daily search habits on Yahoo," says Claude Galipeau, Country Manager, Yahoo Canada. "This online behavior reflects the standout pop culture trends and collective obsessions Canadians searched, consumed, and shared." Hit jump for all the intel on what you've been searching for on Yahoo Canada.

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Virgin Mobile reveals Canadians love thy selfie

More than half of Canadians do it. Most of them don't like to talk about it. And lots think Kim Kardashian does it way too much. It is of course the "selfie". Once the exclusive domain of the egotistical, the friendless and the unusually long-armed, the selfie has exploded as the go-to photo style for 2013. Oxford Dictionary even hopped on board, making it their word of the year and defining it as "a photograph one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website"

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Amazon CEO demos delivery drones, promises delivery within half an hour

In a recent interview for a 60 Minutes segment, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed off the Amazon Prime Air drone, which is said to deliver packages weighing up to five pounds to locations in a 10-mile radius of Amazon fulfillment centers within 30 minutes. Now, we just have to wait for the company to figure out regulations and how to prevent the packages from falling onto your head before this hopefully lands on our shores and change package delivery industry as we speak.

The service is expected to be in testing for a number of years before it will be deployed and only in arease that are close to an Amazon depot. The stroke of marketing genius here has to be credited to Bezos, who timed this 'announcement' right smack in the middle of the Black Friday sales spike, traditionally Amazon's busiest and most profitablet time.

Source: The Verge