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Friday
Mar232012

Apple surpasses RIM in 2011 Canadian smartphone sales

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple has overtaken long standing leader RIM in sales in home court sales. A recent report from IDC and Bloomberg revealed that RIM is no longer the leading smartphone vendor in Canada as of 2011. Apple led with sales of 2.85 million devices in Canada surpassing BlackBerry sales that totaled 2.08 million.

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Monday
Mar192012

3 Million new iPads sold globally in Record Weekend

Apple is celebrating a record sales weekend with three million new iPads sold during its first weekend. That's whole lot of Retina Displays. This is three times as successful as its predecessor, the iPad 2. This time around, a simultanous launch weekend in US and Canada made for a smoother and line free experience. Hit jump for Apple's official release.

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Wednesday
Mar142012

Review: Apple iPad (2012)

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It's been two years since the original iPad was launched and almost a year since the iPad 2 made it to market. The third generation iPad brings a few mini-revolutions to the tablet space while maintaining the winning features that have kept the iPad the the superpower of the category it created. 

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Sunday
Mar042012

Apple hits 25 Billion App Download Milestone

Apple has celebrated a huge milestone. Over 25 billion iOS apps have been downloaded for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad since the App Store first went live in 2008. This signifies a robust, thriving and profitable app economy for Apple and its developers.

Apple has paid developers a total of $4 billion to date. For users, it represents a rich variety of paid and free applications to make their device usage more engaging and also increase their loyalty to Apple's products.


“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”

The App Store offers more than 550,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 123 countries around the world, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available.

App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 21 categories, including Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness and travel.