Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 come to Canada with full 1080p HD-Quality streaming of TV content anywhere

The Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350, the newest retail products to allow consumers to watch their TV anywhere, will be available today in leading Canadian retailers including Best Buy, Future Shop and London Drugs.

Both Slingbox models are completely redesigned and deliver best-in-class, up to full 1080p HD- quality, live streaming of your favorite TV shows, sporting events, recorded programming and premium content to smartphones, tablets, laptops and connected devices. In addition, the Slingbox 500 introduces new features, including Wi-Fi and HDMI, as well as a platform for delivering personal content to the TV, a first for any Slingbox product.

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Sony to launch Xperia T "Bond Phone" and Xperia Go on November 14th

Sony Xperia T is the Bond phone featured in Skyfall and will come to Bell, Mobilicity, MTS, Rogers and Videotron.

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sony is releasing a duo of Android smartphones on November 14. The first is the Sony Xperia T also know as the Bond Phone because it is used by 007 during the movie Skyfall. With an elegant and dangerous curved black aluminum case,  a 4.6-inch 1280 x 720 display, a 13 megapixel camera, a new dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor, NFC (Near Field Communications) and various James Bond inspired bits of content from the movie.

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Review: Parrot Zik Bluetooth headphones with multi-touch and NFC

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The market is littered with expensive headphones and while a number of them are quite good, many are too expensive for what they offer. The problem is that many of these headphones offer a lot of flash without any true innovation.

Parrot made a list of all the features that would make a dream set of headphones and created the Parrot Zik. A simple name for a product that’s stacked high with tech and innovation.

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The Apple Beat: 10 years ago a very different iMac was launched

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Every now and then I like to go back in time and reprint an old story from my early Apple coverage. It is interesting to see how things were back then when Apple was still  in recovery mode. This was 2002, the iPod had already been launched and the the Mac was the 'Digital Hub'. "Jaguar" (OS X 10.2 was the current OS) Compaq and IBM still made computers and PDAs were all the rage. Good times. Hit jump to read "Apple iMac 2002: Redefining the Desktop"

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