The Apple Beat: A look at Apple Retail 2.0

iPad 2's are now running the Smart Sign software to make shopping at the Apple Store as easy as shopping on the webText and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Celebrating its recent 10-year-anniversary, Apple's Retail Store has undergone a quick makeover to change with the times and make the perusing and purchase of Apple products easier and more efficient. We took a quick tour of the Eaton Centre Apple Store in downtown Toronto earlier today to get a better idea of what visitors can expect. Hit jump to see a video and some more photos of the new Apple Store experience.

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HTC to host Consumer Meetup on May 30

They make some of the most compelling and desirable smartphones today and they're ushering a new paradigm in tablets with their Flyer 7" inch pen-enabled tablet. HTC now invites interested users and consumers to come to their "Telephones Lines…From Rotary To Hands Free - The Evolution Of Telecommunications Design" event on Monday, May 30 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm at the Andrew Richard Design Events in 571-A Adelaide Street East. Check their Facebook page for more details.

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CPCC wants to fine Canadians buying memory cards, even those that aren't copying music

Canadian consumers just can't seem to get a break. It is almost as if we're walking around with a huge bullseye on our rear ends while groups like the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) find new and creative ways to skewer consumers with absurd levies. This new proposed levy targets memory cards, thumbdrives and pretty much any type of writeable media used to make copies.

We're all for compensating artists for their work, but that's not the issue here.

How about consumers who use said memory cards for things other than music or videos like storing original photographs, documents and personal information?

Will all these people be subjected to this asinine blanket levy? This isn't the first time consumers have been targeted by CPCC. The group clamoured for a tax on flash memory cards  back in 2003. In 2007, they proposed for a tax of between $2 and $10 for each flash memory card sold and up to $75 for each Apple iPod or PMP (Personal Media Player) sold to consumers.

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Norton tackles Cyberbullying in new Survey

Photo from Get Safe Online (http://k9webprotection.net/)Norton Canada released the results of its cyberbullying survey today highlighting that girls are more often involved in cyberbullying incidents than boys are (86 percent compared to 55 percent) and that cyberbullying is happening most frequently through social media channels. For the purpose of this survey, cyberbullying is described as wilful and abusive e-mails, photos, instant messages, cell phone calls or other electronic channels that result in personal humiliation, violation of privacy, stress or physical injury.

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