Apple.ca sells refurbished iPads starting at $479

Apple's Canadian online store is offering refurbished Wi-Fi iPad models starting at $479 (16GB), $549 (32GB) and $649 (64GB). These are on sale for a special limited time and come with a one-year Apple warranty, all the requisite items (charger, cable, manual, Apple stickers, coolness factor) are included. Refurbished items are usually like new, often returned presents that have gone through Apple's stringent quality assurance.

This is the LG G-Slate, a 3D-capable Honeycomb tablet

The LG G-Slate will apparently be a T-Mobile device (which for Canadians means it should work on Wind Mobile, Videotron and Mobilicity's networks). Clearly running a variant of Android's Honeycomb OS, this 8.9-inch tablet is expected to have a dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 32GB of storage, a gyroscope and accelerometer combo plus 3D-capable stereoscopic dual-cameras in the rear (for shooting 3D videos and stills) plus a front-facing camera for video calls. You will 3D glasses to view photos and videos on the LG G-Slate's screen but it can also output regular HD video via a HDMI port. This is coming to T-Mobile in Spring. 

Apps: Kobo Reading Life social app now out for iOS devices

Kobo's Reading Life is the industry’s first-ever global social eReading experience and is now available to both iPad and iPhone users. Reading Life allows users to dive deeper into their reading experience. They can learn about their reading habits from the Reading Life dashboard, achieve reading milestones and targets, unlock dozens of achievement-based badges, and check in with characters and places they encounter in special enhanced ebooks.

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NortonLive Ultimate Help Desk tackles consumer's tech problems 24/7/365

Norton by Symantec announced today its new NortonLive Ultimate Help Desk service – a  24x7 online service and virtual personal IT help desk service for consumers that supports a broad range of computing and digital devices, from PCs to printers to iPod devices, commonly used at home.

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