Apple to livestream March 21 media event

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's confirmed that it is holding its next media event on March 21st at the intimate Town Hall at the campus in its 1 Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino. The event is the first product launch since the September 2015 bonanza in downtown San Francisco and is going to be live streamed at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Details can be found here.

Expected at this event are a new 4-inch iPhone which will be an updated version of the iPhone 5/5S form factor, a smaller 9.7-inch iPad Pro (taking over the iPad Air) as well as more Apple Watch straps and accessories. Apple could also unveil some new MacBooks now with new Intel Skylake processors and improved specs as well as elaborate on new software features for iOS, Mac OS X El Capitan, tvOS and watchOS. Timing for the event is odd since Tim Cook and some Apple executives will be at a federal court hearing in California to address the Justice Department's order to unlock an iPhone to aid in an investigation.

While products and technologies will be front and centre, specially since Apple's biggest rivals have played their cards at Mobile World Congress (and their latest smartphones are already shipping), all eyes will be on Apple CEO Tim Cook to see if he uses the event as a podium to discuss the DOJ matter.

Roku announces 4K UHD Insignia Roku TVs coming to Best Buy Canada

Roku, the leader in streaming set-top boxes announed their first 4K UHD Insignia Roku TV models are now available in Canada exclusively from BestBuy.ca starting today and in Best Buy stores nationwide early next month.

As with all Roku TVs, the 4K UHD Insignia Roku TVs feature the award-winning Roku® operating system (Roku OS) that provides a simple smart TV experience with a personalized home screen and access to more than 1,700 streaming channels in Canada, including 4K UHD content from channels including Netflix, UltraFlix and YouTube.

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Google's Destinations makes trip planning more efficient for Canadians

Google' recently launched Destinations which makes planning for a vacation more efficient with Destinations on Google, which helps you discover and plan your next vacation, right from Google Search on your phone.

With more than half of Canadians saying they intend to vacation in 2016, we see many Canadians turning to mobile phones to sneak in vacation dreaming and planning here and there—in line at the coffee shop, or on your way to a friend. In fact, Canadians spend an average of 30 days planning their trips, which last 8.6 days on average.

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Review: Moto 360 (2015)

Text and photos Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Surprisingly light for its size, the Moto 360 feels like a quality product. I like the semicircular display as this seems to work well with many third-party watchfaces. One advantage of Android Wear is that anyone can make a watchface for the devices that support it and changing these watchfaces is super easy.

I’ve held off reviewing Motorola’s latest Moto 360 for a number of months because I’ve been waiting for Android Wear to offer something new worth covering, but seeing as how development of Google’s smartwatch OS seems to have been stunted, I will proceed to give my thought and impressions on the hardware aspect of the equation.

The Moto 360 version 2, Is a refinement of Motorola’s relatively successful wearable. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between the 2014 and 2015 variants, even the charging docks look identical, _­but they are not.

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