Apple Retail Stores to open in Halifax and Coquitlam

It's going to be a good weekend for Canadian Apple Retail Stores, two more are opening this Saturday August 18th. Apple will open its first Maritime Store at the Halifax Shopping Centre at 9:30am. Apple Store Halifax  will be the 24th store in Canada.   Apple Store Coquitlam, opening the same day, will be the 5th store in Vancouver and the 25th store in Canada making a total of 375 stores around the world. Remember, first 1000 vistors get a free t-shirt!.

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Rdio increases catalogue to over 18 million songs; adds new partners

Rdio (www.rdio.com), the digital subscription music service started by the creators of Skype,  just announced two landmark deals with CD Baby and TuneCore, the largest aggregators of independent music, bringing Rdio’s catalogue to over 18 million songs.

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Nokia Lumia 900 to get software update tomorrow

Nokia Lumia 900 owners on Rogers will be getting a surprise tomorrow in the form of a software update to the flagship Windows Phone. This isn't the promised Windows Phone 7.8 update that will bring some system-wide enhancements to all Lumia smartphones but a general Lumia 900 software update. Hit jump to see the scale of features this update will bring.

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Adobe to end Flash on Android today

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Adobe Flash plugin, once touted to offer "the full web experience" on mobile devices is officially terminated on Android devices starting today. Adobe hasn't been developing Flash for mobile devices and today it completely pulls out of the Android marketplace. Adobe made the announcement late last year by stating that, "HTML 5 is best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms." 

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