CIBC: Canadians seek deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to stretch their holiday budget

Photo by James Cridland from Flickr.comPoll conducted by Harris/Decima reveals Canadians are planning to spend, on average, $628 on gifts this holiday season, and another $335 on other holiday expenses, including travel. For many Canadian consumers the holiday shopping season effectively begins this weekend as they look to take advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on both sides of the border, and online.

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Microsoft Survey: Canadian businesses unclear about Cloud Computing

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft today sposored a roundtable discussion titled "Journey to the Cloud," which looked at security as well as Canada specific insights on cloud computing based on a survey conducted at Microsoft's request by Leger Marketing.

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Bell and Virgin Mobile to release the Galaxy Nexus on Dec 8, $150 on 3-year plan

Galaxy Nexus from Google will be landing in Canada on December 8 at Virgin Mobile and Bell. Both those companies have sign up pages on their websites. Canada gets the goods ahead of the US which still has to announce a release date for the Galaxy Nexus. Check out our first impressions of the device.

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Video: CEO Mike Serbinis launches Kobo Vox

 By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Kobo Vox, an Android powered colored eReader with huge tablet aspirations, was officially launched elast night. The device is the first colored offering from Toronto-based Kobo (which recently got acquired for a cool $315 million by Japanese web retailer Rakuten) is geared to compete against the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Colour which are similar eReader Android tablet hybrid devices.

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