Posted by Brian Schultz
How’s this for creepy — a new mobile phone app is making identifying strangers much easier than ever before. The best part? You don’t have to talk to them to find out their entire social networking history.
Recognizr (there’s no ‘e’), is a facial recognition app that allows you to point your phone’s [...]

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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is looking for a new member to add to their customer service panel and they’re using Twitter to find that person.
Brad Ross, TTC’s communications manager, sent out a tweet Thursday stating, “Ok riders, looking for 1 public member for the cust. serv. panel. Tell us why it [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland

New data from the website TheDailyBeast.com reports Canada is the second laziest country in the world; second to the United States. A number of factors are used to place countries in their proper category of shame. How many calories the average citizen burns per day, to how many hours of television and [...]

Staff from a Swiss TV station work inside the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center on Thursday in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) isn’t fooling around with how coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is transmitted. The governing Olympic body has [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
The new director of BBC Global News is pro-social networking. In fact, Peter Horrocks is backing Facebook and Twitter so much, he has made it mandatory for journalists in his newsroom to use it.
Horrocks took a similar stand to what most newsrooms have been doing for over a year now — utilizing [...]

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Google on Tuesday flipped the switched for additional Manitoba communities to show up on its Street View application.
The company said it debuted 130 more cities and towns, as well as a 360-degree view of Whistler Mountain and Stanley Park in B.C. Just in time for the Olympics, Whistler Village and the Vancouver Athletes’ [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
Opinions are varying on the new Apple iPad — announced Wednesday to the world as the latest mobile tablet computing device.
The iPad was the target of Internet jabs yesterday due to its rather unpleasing name. Insert your MaxiPad and tampon jokes wherever you wish, but the fact is, “MadTV” spoofed the iPad [...]

Apple announced Wednesday what many speculated their new creation to be — a tablet computing device called the iPad. CEO Steve Jobs revealed the news during a speech in San Francisco to a crowd-filled room of geeks and journalists.
A cross between a small laptop and the iPhone, the iPad virtually does what the smartphone and [...]

Tech experts gathered in Winnipeg Thursday to discuss the upcoming electronic trends for 2010.
During a breakfast seminar at the Fort Garry Hotel, gurus said to expect the popularity of eBooks and net tablets to soar. The future didn’t look as promising, though, for eBook readers, such as the Amazon Kindle. Apple is expected to release [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland

The not-yet-announced, but highly rumoured Apple Tablet is looking very promising to revolutionize a number of fields. This, according to experts and technology analysts.
According to a recent report on CNET, Apple wants to give Amazon’s Kindle a kick in the pants and push its famed Kindle aside with the launch of the [...]

Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has come up with a cell phone that gets its power entirely from Coca-Cola.
The Design Blog says the Nokia phone can last four times as long as a normal lithium battery charge, and uses enzymes to generate electricity from carbohydrates.
Zheng was quoted as saying, “The concept is using a bio battery [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
Canada’s newest wireless carrier is pushing to be the first network in Canada to carry Google’s newly-introduced phone — the Nexus One.
WIND Mobile — which only launched in December — has been in talks with Google about bringing the smartphone north of the border.
Google made no mention earlier this week about selling [...]