Review: Amazon Kindle 2.0 now selling at $189

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

You can thank the iPad, and the Barnes and Noble Nook, and the Sony Reader....heck, even the Kobo Reader. All that competition has shaken and stirred Amazon to reduce the price of their Kindle 2 ebook reader to a sensible US $189.00 (it originally cost Canadians $312 plus import taxes late last year!)

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PayPal pushing mobile payment solutions

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

PayPal has gone beyond catering to e-tailers and eBay traders and has managed to cap 2009 by introducing ways to pay via Twitter, smartphones and has provided the payment backbone for BlackBerry’s new App World store.

We interviewed Darrell Macmullin, PayPal Canada’s general manager who gamely demoed some of PayPal’s new directions and discussed the companies’ recently released open-source developer platform.

“There’s a whole new suite of payment APIs for developers to create and embed PayPal in applications. The first companies to sign up for these new APIs were Twitter and Research in Motion,” Darrell explained.

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Nokia's N97 launches with Bells and Whistles

Text and Photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia launched its N97 all-in-one smartphone device today which is exclusive to Bell Canada. Bell, who just a day before launched its first Android OS smartphone,  seems to be launching HSPA handsets as fast as it can in time for the holiday buying season.

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Navigating the Big Smoke with Nokia Ovi Maps

Nokia's recent "Map it Out Challenge" saw members of the media armed with Nokia E71 smartphones running on Telus new HSPA+ network. Gadjo Sevilla was on hand to check it out.

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