SlideShow: First look at the Eaton Centre Microsoft Store

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft is opening a flagship store tomorrow at the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto. Taking over the spot that used to serve as the Sony Store for many years (and effectively replacing the pop-up kiosk that's served as a storefront for two years), the new Sony Store opens tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. Hit jump for details.

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Ultimate Ears teams up with Skrillex to Design Limited Edition UE BOOM

Ultimate Ears announced the newest addition to its limited edition lineup of award-winning UE BOOM speakers with the custom designed Skrillex Edition UE BOOM. With this collaboration, UE provides a new avenue for the six-time GRAMMY Award® winning electronic dance music producer Skrillex to express yet another aspect of his creative talent with his own hand-drawn images covering UE BOOM. Read our review of the UE BOOM speakers.

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Put some Nokia on your Android with the Z Launcher, beta now available

Nokia is trending hard right now after the announcement that it is getting into the Android tablet space as well as news that it has created a launcher. Good news is it looks like we don't have to wait until the Nokia N1 tablet ships in order to get a taste of the Z launcher since it is available today as a bete on the Google Play Store

Nokia’s Z Launcher will work on Nexus 5, Galaxy S5, S4, S3, Moto X, Moto G, HTC One and Sony Xperia Z1 devices running Android. OS 4.1-4.4 

Source: Nokia

Apple opens Apple Watch app development starting today

Apple just opened up the WatchKit development platform to allow developers to get on board with creating apps for Apple Watch starting today. Apple Watch is expected to come in Spring of 2015 but Apple wants a robust app ecosystem for the wearable from day one.

The iOS 8.2 SDK beta including WatchKit is available immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com/watchkit. The WatchKit site includes programming guides, human interface guidelines, templates and more. Starting later next year, developers will be able to create fully native apps for Apple Watch. 

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