Google's Nexus 4 smartphone reappears briefly for Canadian buyers

Updated on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 11:38AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The much desired yet ever-elusive Google Nexus 4 smartphone was made available briefly yesterday at Google's Play Store. As a prospective buyer who signed up to be notified of the Nexus 4's availability weeks ago, I received an email at 1:35PM from Google stating that the Nexus 4 would be available for purchase starting at 3:00 PM Eastern time.

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SourceCode: Why WhatsApp shouldn't sell to Facebook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iMessage is great, if you're on iOS. BBM is superb, if you use a BlackBerry smartphone. These messaging solutions keep people connected through WiFi or data networks without the high cost associated with SMS messages. WhatsApp is a cross-platform global smartphone solution that works across all major devices  and there were rumours today that Facebook was looking to buy it.

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Holiday Gift Guide: Smartphones

It’s a great time for buying smartphones as the range of models this year is simply staggering and with the arrival of 4G-LTE as a high speed data standard, the advent of NFC (Near Field Communications) for mobile payments plus improved cameras, more memory and better performance make these smartphones the presents to knock anyone's holiday socks off.

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Dell's Ubuntu-powered Developer Edition XPS 13 now available for $1449

Dell's selling an Ubuntu-powered XPS 13 geared for developers that is runnng the Precise Pengolin version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distro and which has all the necessary drivers and applications. Available from Dell's US online store the Ultrabook features an Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage and a basic set of developer tools and utilities, as well as access to two beta projects: the cloud launcher and the profile tool.