Kobo sold to Japanese e-commerce company for $315 million

It was as good a time as any to sell Kobo. With recent success from its Kobo Reader Touch and the newly released Kobo Vox, the Toronto-based e-Book maker looks like a great acquisition. Rakuten, Inc.  and Kobo Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Rakuten intends to acquire 100% of total issued and outstanding shares of Kobo for US$315 million in cash.

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Apple Store App for IPhone and iPod Touch

The Apple Store App for iPhone and iPod touch is now live and available in Canada on the App Store. It's the easiest way to reserve, shop for, and personalize your favourite Apple products right from your iPhone! Make Genius Bar and One to One reservations and sign up for free workshops. Designed to speed up in store purchases as well as put the Apple Store experience in user's hands, the app comes in time for the busy holiday shopping season.

Motorola RAZR Android smartphone now available at Rogers

The new Motorola RAZR is available in Canada from Rogers. It is thin, runs Android Gingerbread (with possible upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich), has a 4.3-inch screen and laced with Kevlar, what's not to like? For new subscribers cost is $149.99 on a 3-year and creeps  to $649.99 for no contract price. Check out our overview video below.

Review: Sandisk Memory Vault 16GB

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sandisk's new Memory Vault products ($50.00 for 8GB and  $ 90.00 for16GB) offer users archival storage solutions for personal videos and photos (as well as documents) for up to 100 years. The Memory Vault line isn't designed for quick transfer and travel of these files but to store and keep the most important and valuable memories for generations to come.

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