The Holiday Season's BEST Ad Campaigns

By Sonya Davidson

This time of year we're bombarded with ad campaigns from many companies. Many to draw our attention and to pull on our heartstrings or have a little fun and we look forward to them. Here are my top favourites already. I may need to do a second round as we wrap up the holiday season. 

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First wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps released by Apple and IBM

The momentous teaming up of former rivals IBM and Apple to push enterprise-grade solutions on iOS has yielded the first crop of applications. The apps include Passenger+ (above), which allows airline flight crews to offer personalized, in-flight services to passengers such as rebooking flights, accessing baggage information and providing special offers. Other mobile business apps now available through the collaboration between IBM and Apple are designed for customers in banking, retail, insurance, financial services, telecommunications and government.

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iTunes releases Best of 2014 for Canada highlighting the most popular downloads and apps

Today iTunes released  iTunes Best Of 2014 for Canada, highlighting the favourite music, movies, tv, apps, and books of Canadians. 

Pharrell Williams topped the songs chart with his hit Happy from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, while Taylor Swift is #1 on the Albums chart, with her single Shake it Off being the 7th most downloaded song of the year. 

Frozen dominated iTunes downloads in 2014. Among the most downloaded games was Monument Valley and Pixelmator for iOS. Hit jump to read the rest.

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Apple hosting workshops for Hour of Code at Apple Retail Stores on Dec 11

I think everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think. I view computer science as a liberal art, something everyone should learn to do.

- Steve Jobs

Apple stores around the world will host free one-hour coding workshops in support of Hour of Code on December 11, a movement to make computer science accessible to all students.  

Coinciding with Computer Science Education Week, workshops will offer an introduction to computer science and show that anyone can learn the basics of programming, inspiring young people to believe that they can build the next app that transforms the way we work or play. 

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