Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 12/28-1/3

Rdio's streaming Vdio beta service shuts down

Nike to push your New Year’s fitness goals with Training Club app update

Solayo: A digital jukebox

First look at Nokia's Lumia 1520 and the Lumia 2520

Talking tech highlights of 2013 on Global TV's "The Morning Show"

Sony reportedly releasing Windows Phone device in 2014

Vacay.ca Names 2014's Best Places to See in Canada

4.6 million Snapchat users stung by user and phone number leak

Syrian Electronic Army hacked Skype’s blog, Facebook, and Twitter accounts

Apple's new Mac Pro has a replaceable socketed CPU

Lenovo reveals Vibe Z Flagship smartphone

Samsung pushes out Galaxy Camera 2 with bigger battery thinner dimensions

webOS is back in LG's new SmartTV

BlackBerry, Alicia Keys to part ways starting Jan 30th

Review: The 2013 GMC Terrain

Acer targeting 7-inch and 8-inch tablet space with new Iconia models

Google to introduce 4K video format that uses less bandwidth

MythBusters to test Star Wars scenes on upcoming special

Discovery Channel’s MythBusters is looking to debunk or confirm the plausibility of some famous scenes from the Star Wars saga for an upcoming special that will air in the US on January 4. The Verge reports that hosts Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tory Belleci have chosen memorable scenes from the movie to replicate and be brought to life.

Digital music sales drop for the first time since opening of iTunes Store

Looks like streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify are hitting digital music sales where it hurts. Billboard reports digital track sales have dropped 5.7 percent to 1.34 billion units for the first time in 2013 since iTunes Store opened 10 years before. Album sales also dropped 0.1 percent to 117.6 million. Streaming services that provide unlimited seem to entice listeners to subscribe to them instead of buying albums that cost roughly the same price.

Google to introduce 4K video format that uses less bandwidth

Google has begun collaborating with hardware manufacturers to introduce a new video format that will allow you to play 4K content from YouTube on your TVs, smartphone and PCs while it consumes half the bandwidth needed by current high-definition videos. PCWorld reports VP9 format allows for videos to be shown at 3840 x 2160 pixel resolution. Television makers that plan to back the new format include LG, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, Philips, Sharp and Panasonic. Nvidia and Qualcomm also plan to create new graphics chips and processors to support VP9.

“Starting in 2014, you’ll see products from major mobile, PC and TV partners that are using a new, more efficient video format called VP9 that gives you HD quality at half the bandwidth,” Francisco Varela, global director of platform partnerships at Google, wrote in an email to PCWorld.