Cineplex comes to Roku with thousands of movies

Cineplex is the first movie video on-demand service available on Roku in Canada. The channel delivers thousands of movies including the latest new releases such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Fault In Our Stars, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Godzilla, Blended and much more. You also have the flexibility to start and stop movie playback when you switch between devices.

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Adobe acquires Aviary to enable creative cloud app development

Adobe today announced that it has acquired privately held Aviary, a developer of mobile SDKs (Software Development Kits) for the delivery of creative apps.

With millions of people already using Aviary-powered photo-editing apps and thousands of developers using Aviary’s SDKs, across mobile platforms, the acquisition accelerates Adobe’s strategy to make Creative Cloud a vibrant platform for third-party apps, through a new Creative SDK.

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iOS 8 adoption reportedly at 30% over the weekend

iOS 8's adoption hasn't been as huge as iOS 7 a year ago (50 %) but it is still quite impressive. Cumulative findings from analytics firms firms Fiksu, Mixpanel, Appsee, & Chitika are showing tht 30% of users have updated to iOS 8 in the past three days. iOS 8 is the most signifcant update to Apple's mobile operating system and that brings a lot of user interoperability with its Mac OS X desktop.

Source: 9to5Mac

BlackBerry Passport expected to sell for $599 contract free in US

BlackBerry's new Passport smartphone, which we hope to see unveiled this Wednesday, will reportedly cost $599 off contract in the US. The Passport is BlackBerry's latest flagship device geared towards enterprise but has also roused a lot of interest from consumers who want a larger touch-screen device that also has a QWERTY keyboard. Stay tuned for Canada specific information, possible hands-on and first impressions on the BlackBerry Passport this week.

Source: Crackberry.com