New Pioneer receivers feature advanced connectivity options for smartphones and PCs

As technology in the home entertainment space continues to progress quickly, Pioneer Electronics of Canada Inc. ensures its products meet the demands of these rapid changes, and today introduced four Pioneer branded home theater receivers designed to support the most up-to-date high quality audio and video formats. The VSX-824 5.2-channel and VSX-1024 and VSX-1124 7.2-channel receivers offer the latest connectivity and performance features to make any home theater listening and viewing experience truly exceptional, including the recently announced HDMI 2.0 specification for the highest video signal transfer, Roku Ready certification, ESS SABRE Premier Audio DAC, multi-channel high resolution playback, and Pioneer’s proprietary iControlAV5 App.

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Read 5000 newspapers from all over the world on your iPhone/iPad with Ynews

Following the success of myTuner Radio, AppGeneration has just released a brand new media app for iOS, named Ynews. With this new app you can browse more than 5000 online newspapers in 80 countries. It also allows you to read the news on your native language without needing to leave the app. Since it auto translates newspaper websites, it enables you to read a Chinese newspaper in Russian, an English tech magazine in Spanish or a Thai economic newspaper in French!

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Google I/O represents crossroads for Android's bevy of products

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Today's Google I/O Keynote felt very much like a bookend to Apple's own WWDC keynote earlier this month in the same venue. Just like Apple, Google focused on its two main operating systems and their surrounding ecosystems. Android, which is now being called Android "L" because even Google realizes calling an OS 'Lollypop' just sounds juvenile, and Chrome as well as it's huge array of cloud services.

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iTunes celebrating Canada's 147th birthday with Made in Canada section

With Canada Day just around the corner, here are some great survival tips to get around your city, celebrate in style, and also enjoy your favourite Canadian content.  iTunes has a complete “MADE IN CANADA” feature where you can find works by your favourite Canadian artists - movies/music/apps  etc - including Sarah McLachlan, the latest season of Orphan Black, Denis Villeneuve’s  Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal and more.

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