Review: Parrot Zik Bluetooth headphones with multi-touch and NFC

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The market is littered with expensive headphones and while a number of them are quite good, many are too expensive for what they offer. The problem is that many of these headphones offer a lot of flash without any true innovation.

Parrot made a list of all the features that would make a dream set of headphones and created the Parrot Zik. A simple name for a product that’s stacked high with tech and innovation.

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The Apple Beat: 10 years ago a very different iMac was launched

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Every now and then I like to go back in time and reprint an old story from my early Apple coverage. It is interesting to see how things were back then when Apple was still  in recovery mode. This was 2002, the iPod had already been launched and the the Mac was the 'Digital Hub'. "Jaguar" (OS X 10.2 was the current OS) Compaq and IBM still made computers and PDAs were all the rage. Good times. Hit jump to read "Apple iMac 2002: Redefining the Desktop"

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Instagram expands to profile pages for users

"We're launching Web profiles to give you a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on the Web," Instagram said in a blog post.

The profile pages will give Instagram's 100 million users a way to directly view and appreciate their shared photos on the web. A long awaited feature, web profiles can't be used to upload or post photos since that would alter the mobile nature of Instagram's image sharing focus.

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Mobilicity products now available in Food Basics

On the heels of upgrading its network to 4G and announcing that its regular rates plans are 50%-off for a limited time, Mobilicity announced it has expanded its National Retail Program with Food Basics.

The value-based unlimited wireless carrier has opened full-service kiosks in four Food Basics stores in Toronto.

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