Toshiba launches trio of R800 series ultra-portable notebooks

Toshiba announced  its new R800 series, a new range of ultra-portable and high-performance notebooks, to the Canadian market. Featuring a heat management system that allows seamless integration of Intel’s high performance technology within incredibly slim and light casings, this spec rich series offers consumers enhanced processing power, reduced system downtime and sleek design, all at an affordable price. 

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Video: Samsung's SH100 WiFi enabled point and shoot camera demoed

Samsung's SH100 ($249.99) is a WiFi enabled camera that's got myriad connectivity options to printers, PCs' TV's and smartphones. Samsung's multi-talentend and connected camera has a lot of smart features, we particularly like Remote Viewfinder which allows you to use a tablet or smartphone to 'see' what the camera sees.

Amazon unveils cloud music storage service in the US

Amazon.com's been full of surprises lately. They've unveiled their own Android app store and now have gone 'to the clould' with a new music service. Launched yesterday, the Amazon cloud drive service and Amazon cloud player Android app work in tandem to offers customers 5GB of free online storage, with premium accounts expandable up to 1000GB.

Customers who purchase an MP3 album will be entitled to 20GB of storage for one year. New Amazon MP3 store purchases can be automatically added to Cloud Drive without counting toward total storage space. The idea here is that users don't need to fill their devices up with gigabytes of music and can stream music they own from online servers. Amazon, please make this International!

Nexus S now on pre-order from Best Buy Canada

The Google Nexus S is certainly one of the most desirable handsets around and for many Canadians obtaining one required an eBay purchase or a trek South of the Border to an American Best Buy. Well, the handset that's expected to be with no less than five carriers in Canada (TELUS, Bell, Rogers, Mobilicity, Videotron and Wind Mobile,) is sort of available for pre-order from Best Buy Canada. There's nothing online, but if your trudge over to your favourite Best Buy and plunk down CAD $50, they'll put you on the list and holler at you when the units arrive.