Apple: OS X Mountain Lion sells three million copies in four days

Three million copies of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion have been sold in four days, making the recently launched OS the most successful release in Apple's history. With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system and is available through the Mac App Store as an upgrade to Lion or Snow Leopard users for $19.99 (CAD). 

“Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. 

Mountain Lion features include the all new Messages app, Notification Center, system-wide Sharing, Facebook integration*, Dictation*, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center. iCloud integration makes it easy to set up your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, and keep everything, including iWork documents, up to date across all your devices. For more information or to download Mountain Lion visit apple.ca/osx/specs. Additional features such as Dictation and Facebook Integration are coming to Canada in an upcoming update.

New Microsoft accessories revealed ahead of Windows 8

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Windows 8 is said to be coming in October 26th together with the much anticipated Microsoft Surface device. Microsoft has gone ahead and announced a series of cool accessories to complement the new touch-based OS and tablet. Customized mice and keyboards that share the same Microsoft aesthetic as the new tablet including a wedge mobile keyboard that props up the Surface tablet. There is also a series of mice that are scaled down to accomodate the smaller form factor of the Surface Device. 

While these accessories are expected to sell in stores like Future Shop and Best Buy, most will want to experience Windows 8 at the first Canadian Microsoft Store in Toronto's Yorkdale Mall. 

10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook appears in Vietnam

We've known for some time that RIM had plans for a larger PlayBook, it appeared in a leaked roadmap slide a month ago slated for Q3 2013. The 10-inch PlayBook project (apparently codenamed Blackforest 128) was thought to have been shelved since RIM had more pressing business to attend to, namely getting BlackBerry 10 and its supporting devices off the ground and into user's and developer's hands. You know, to get the company back in decent shape and competing again in the mobile market.

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"Next iPhone" made from purported spare parts emerges

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It is inevitable that the surging interest and demand for Apple's next iPhone is reaching peak levels. Now that most of the competition have released their flagship smartphone products for the year, the public at large is hungry for the next game changing iPhone.

Chinese parts supplier iLab Factory put together a non-working device from various spare parts. These parts have been seen before in other leaks but never as an assembled device (again, without any working components). 

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