Samsung announces Exynos 5 Octa eight-core chip at CES

Samsung’s second keynote, and the news keeps coming. The mobile giant has just annouced a new Exynos 5 Octa chip, based on the Cortex A15 architecture. Designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile processor. Samsung claims that the 3D gaming performance is twice that of anything available at the moment. Developing… Filed under: Samsung Comments

Australia Is So Hot They Had to Add New Colors to Their Weather Maps

It’s super-hot in Australia right now: there are massive bush fires happening spontaneously and it’s 95°F in Sydney at midnight. In fact, the Australian bureau of meteorology has recorded the highest ever known temperature in Australia—and as a result, it’s had to add new colors to its weather maps. More »

Dan Misener: Why the tech toys at CES take so long to get to Canada

For gadget lovers, it’s an exciting time of year. But for Canadian gadget lovers, it can also be a frustrating time of year, because many of the products and services announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas won’t be available in Canada for weeks or months, if ever. Dan Misener explains why.

Google Play Store could reach one million apps by mid-2013

A new projection from Sociable suggests that the Google Play Store will possibly reach one million apps by June 2013. The social media site used milestones from the marketplace’s history and applied some math to figure out when exactly the tipping point would occur.
The number of apps has seen a sizeable increase since mid-2012, when Google put the count at 700,000 back in October. Sociable’s numbers estimate that there are 800,000 at current tim…