Oflow for iOS offers 100 ways to help trigger creativity

A wise man once said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Independent developer Tanner Christensen just released Oflow 1.0 for iOS, his lifestyle app that enhances creativity by helping users to see their creative challenge from a new perspective. Designers, inventors, and artists are expected to regularly give birth to new ideas, but engineers, salesmen, and teachers must also find creative means of accomplishing their goals. Oflow offers 100 proven techniques for re-framing any problem and enabling any user to enter the natural state of flow.

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Registration for International CES 2013 is now open

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) opens registration for the 2013 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, scheduled January 8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nev.

Registration for the 2013 International CES is free to consumer technology professionals through August 31. A registration fee of $100 will start on September 1, and the fee will increase to $200 on January 2. Attendees and media can register today at CESweb.org.

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The Apple Beat: The iPhone, five years later

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It has been five years since Steve Jobs debuted the Apple iPhone and changed the world of mobile phones and the world of mobile computing as we know it. The iPhone's story is how one single product remapped the entire mobile industry.

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Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference descends on Toronto

Downtown Toronto plays host to 15,000 Microsofties this week for the yearly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference taking place from July 8-12 at the Rogers Centre and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Toronto is expected to earn upwards of $50 million for hosting the conference according to Tourism Toronto.

This is a particularly significant conference for Microsoft which is slated to launch the Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 is coming this Fall. The new OS has been redesigned from the ground up for multi-touch operation and will run on tablets that can double as full-featured PCs.  Windows 8 will be offered as a $40.00 upgrade to users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. This high profile conference may generate more interest in Toronto as a world class convention city for the technology sector.