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Get ready for a This Is Your Life-style recap available online, as Facebook's Timeline feature is now out of beta and available to all users worldwide. Originally announced during the f8 conference back in September, it wraps up all the information you've posted, friendships you've made and embarrassing photos you were tagged in, in a neat, date organized package. If you're worried it may uncover some things better left private — and posted years ago before you were more savvy about social m…

When Google updated its Google+ app to support Mobile Hangouts it did so without allowing those virtual get-togethers to be truly mobile; its origin had to be

Many accidents could be avoided if everyone had their car side and rearview mirrors positioned correctly, eliminating blind spots and making it easier to change lanes quickly.

NPD just published its latest plotting of the great American smartphone OS rivalry, and although the report covers annual rather than quarterly trends, it's perhaps more interesting to hold it up against the previous set of figures we saw — those for Q2 2011. Back then, Google's OS had a 52 percent share, but these new figures suggest a marginally better performance of 53 percent between January and October. Meanwhile, iOS's 29 percent share is identical to what we saw in Q2, hinting that it…

The school year in Saskatchewan will not begin until at least after Labour Day, according to legislation introduced Tuesday.

Just in time to really annoy your family and friends with holiday greetings, Skype for Android has updated to version 2.6, bringing with it support for sharing photos, videos and other files with your contacts. Being able to quickly transfer pics of your gifts and clips of children tearing into meticulously wrapped presents to people on your buddy list is just the most notable change to the VoIP client. Plenty of other tweaks have taken place, even if they're primarily under the hood. For one…

Here's a happy holidays gift from Google to you: You can continue making free calls from within Gmail to US and Canadian phone numbers next year.
When Google initially integrated Google Voice into Gm…

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second — enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. In order to create the slow-motion film in the video we've got after the break, the team had to replicate the experiment hu…

With an abundance of Android developers creating Siri clones, replicas, replacements, competition, etc. you may have had your fill of personal assistants. Three that we have written about include Cl…

 It appears that regardless of how old you are, you love Facebook. That is the takeaway we are getting from some interesting data put together by Nielsen

Quantum Computers already exist, but not in the "universal" form that would truly revolutionize computing. That's why the latest innovation from Bristol University has so much promise: a team from its center for Quantum Photonics has built a reprogrammable quantum chip. The 70mm x 3mm box is capable of measuring and manipulating entanglement and mixture — fundamental elements of the mythical "universal" chip. It's taken the team six years to reach this point, but now it'll concentrate on sca…

Toshiba Thrive 7-inch tablet hits Canadian soil, now available for $370

Complain all you want about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the rest of the series. It has already made more money than the aggregate total of the worth of your life and the lives of probably everyone you know.
That’s right — Modern Warfare 3 has already made a billion dollars, Activision just said in a press release. It did it in 16 days. You know what took 17 days to make a billion dollar? Avatar. Suck it, James Cameron, Bobby Kotick is likely saying in this fantasy conversation I just i…

Samsung sets company record by selling over 300 million mobile phones in 2011

The new trailer for the latest Men in Black flick is out. What's your verdict: a welcome throwback or an unnecessary sequel 10 years after the fact? Either way, it will make a billion dollars thanks t…

Try as you might, there's no foolproof way to be absolutely sure that your BitTorrent downloads are private and hidden from prying eyes. To prove it, one web site is posting your downloading habits ou…

A Regina native who convinced hundreds of American online companies to join his annual Free Shipping Day campaign is hoping to do the same north of the border.

Aldebaran Robotics' Nao robot has already received a few upgrades from both the company itself and other developers, but it now has a proper successor. Aldebaran took the wraps off its new and improved Nao Next Gen robot today, touting features like a 1.6GHz Atom processor and dual HD cameras that promise to allow for better face and object recognition even in poor lighting conditions. What's more, while robot's outward appearance hasn't changed much, it has also received a number of software…

HP making webOS open source, will bring a new generation of applications and devices

Back for round 3 is Samsung with another shot at Apple's Fanboy/fangirls. Now, a Samsung Galaxy SII toting dude comes up to those waiting in line, marking history, that You guys are still here?”. He c…