Monday
Jun242013

Huawei coming to Virgin Mobile and TELUS and with two new budget smartphones

People looking to step up from their feature phones now have two new options in the Huawei Ascend Y201 (now available at Virgin Mobile and partner retail locations) or the Huawei Ascend Y210 (now available at Walmart’s 379 retail locations nationwide on the TELUS network).

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Monday
Jun242013

Klout Influencers treated to Stunt Driving School by Chevrolet Canada

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Around a dozen participants from Toronto and Montreal were chosen by social media metrics service Klout last week to partake in a half-day stunt driving school with Chevrolet Canada’s Sonic RS Turbo sub compact.

 

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Sunday
Jun232013

Liking made easy with Facebook Mobile

Hate getting or giving the “K” reply but don’t have a wordier response? You might warm up to the Like button now integrated in the mobile versions of Facebook. If you take a look at your Facebook iOS and Android apps, you’ll see that one-tap thumbs up button that replaces the Send button when you haven’t typed anything in yet.

It’ll be interesting to see if this feature catches on. Sadly, if you’re using the desktop version, you won’t be able to get in on the liking action.

Sunday
Jun232013

Vine for Android finally gets search, mentions, and hashtags

It has been available on Vine for iPhone for a while but now the three-week-old Vine for Android finally gets the basic functionalities such as sharing the six-second clips on Facebook, using hashtags, search, and mentioning others in your posts.

Other improvements include user interface tweaks and enhanced video capture speed and quality.