The iPhone 4 Dilemma

Updated on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 8:53AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

For once it seems Canadians can be thankful that a hot tech product launch has been delayed.  And boy, did we dodge a bullet. We're talking about the iPhone 4, which is expected to be launched "in the coming weeks," by Bell, Rogers, Telus and Virgin Mobile but which has also been caught in an unprecedented whirlwind of bad press and controversy in the US and europe.

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Review: Google Maps Navigation app (Beta) on Android

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google Maps navigation app, which is now free to all Android OS devices (version 1.6 upwards) turns any GPS enabled Android phone into a capable and full featured GPS device that's hinged on Google's own formidable Maps technology. Still very much a Beta product, the application gives us a preview of what we can expect from Google once the kinks are ironed out.

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Review: Samsung N220 Intel Atom powered Netbook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Buying a netbook in 2010 has become an extremely tedious task. Most netbooks offer similar features, run on ideantical Atom powered processors and offer the same lightweight mobile computing options at very similar prices. Samsung's a bit newer to the game than older players like MSI, ASUS, Dell and Toshiba but it can be considered a true contender when you look at their N220 netbook that's got the features everyone else has got but offers twice the battery power in nearly the same size.

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IBM Study: We're commuting longer and farther than ever.

The daily commute in some of the world’s most economically important international cities is longer and more grueling than before imagined, reflecting the failure of transportation infrastructure to keep pace with economic activity, according to IBM’s first global Commuter Pain study released recently.

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