Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 8/17-8/23

Amplifon adds ambient sound to Google Maps Street View

Noke: The Bluetooth connected padlock will open for your smartphone

Google Play Books offering textbooks for rent or sale to Canadian students

Huawei’s Ascend Mate2 available at WIND Mobile for $399 outright

Mailbox for iOS adds new language and Passbook support

Celebrate World Photo Day with smartphone shooting tips and apps

Steve Ballmer resigns from Microsoft's board to concentrate on L.A. Clippers

Rogers, Bell and TELUS to sell the BlackBerry Z30 smartphone for $0 on 2 year plans

Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac with OS X Yosemite integration announced

Want to get into High-Res audio? Sony's got the goods, for a price

CEA: Majority of US online users own tablets

An APP a day helps you doctor your play: Five to fit in

The Apple Beat: iMac turns 16

Leaks of the rumoured Moto X+1 surface

Google Voice Search adds multi-language support

Leica introduces new rangefinder camera

Review: Parrot Zik Yellow Gold bluetooth headphones

Review: MacPhun Software's Lost Photos

Google’s Project Ara might become cheaper with new processor

BlackBerry tipped to bring Blend feature to other platforms

BlackBerry has been known to keep their software exclusive to their platform but it seems they are finally learning to open up and their starting with a new feature they’ll be introducing. Called BlackBerry Blend, the function will reportedly let users access their work and personal messages, calendars, contacts, and the like as long as BlackBerry devices are connected. It will reportedly be part of the OS 10.3 update. It is also rumoured they will be bringing this feature to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. What do you guys think about this? If the rumours are true, is this a feature you think you’ll be using?

Source: Ubergizmo

Google’s Project Ara might become cheaper with new processor

Google’s modular phone needed a processor that will play nicely with the concept. The tech giant has found something in the form of a Rockchip processor. The company is developing a system-on-chip with modular tech built-in. This will allow you to switch processors on a whim and makes the possibility of having an inexpensive handset come true. But we’d have to wait until next year when the Project Ara prototypes arrive.

Source: Engadget

Review: MacPhun Software's Lost Photos

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

MacPhun Software has made some of the most innovative Mac software I’ve had the pleasure to try. Their SnapHeal image editing app is one of the most effective ways to remove items seamlessly from a photo and they recently released the Lost Photos app, which scours your email account’s history for images and attachments and places them in a separate folder for ‘rediscovery’.

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