Video: Steve Jobs pitches Apple's Spaceship building for 12,000

After his WWDC 2011 Keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't waste any time in pitching Apple's future headquarters. Reminiscent of a sleek, round alien spacecraft, a giant Tron disc about the size of the Pentagon. The building will house 12,000 people and should be the venue for future WWDC presentations. The building itself is an architectural marvel, right out of science-fiction. It's funny that a council member tried to wangle free WiFi from Jobs who responded by saying that Apple is the largest taxpayer in Cupertino and it wouldn't be good for anyone if Apple moves to Mountain View. The current Apple Campus in 1 Infinite Loop will continue to be used and exist and will supplement the main building which is expected to be up 2015.

Apple's iMessage vs. BlackBerry's BBM - Fight!

The fine folks at  CrackBerry.com and The iPhone Blog put the beta of Apple's upcomng iMessage (from iOS 5) against BlackBerry's BBM. The video above shows how both interfaces look and act as well as a simple back and forth test on both messaging platform. iMessage is faster in these tests, but consider that there are far fewer users running iMessage (which is available only as a developer me beta right now) than BBM. Still, one can see that Apple thought this over very well and anyone who has been waiting for this sort of almost realtime messaging platform on iOS should be really excited. Consider too that while BBM is for BlackBerry smartphones (not the PlayBook, yet). iMessage will work on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Source: Crackberry.com

The Source brings Amazon's Kindle to Canada

The Source announced today that it is the first Canadian retailer to offer consumers a hands-on opportunity to test drive Amazon’s world’s leading eReaders, Kindle and Kindle 3G, prior to purchase. Kindle and Kindle 3G is available at The Source stores across Canada for the economical price of $159.99 and $209.99 respectively.

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HP's TouchPad makes Canadian debut on July 15 for $520

HP’s first webOS tablet will be available on July 15, 2011 in Canada at the HP Store Vancouver, hpshopping.ca and select retailers across Canada. The 16GB TouchPad will be available for $519.99 and the 32GB TouchPad is $619.99.