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This is a good sign for those eager to get a PlayBook at a discounted price. A week ago both Rogers and TELUS reduced the price of RIM’s first tablet, but it was only available to their employees. Checking out this receipt from Walmart Canada it looks like a massive sale is quietly happening. The price of the 16GB version has been slashed by a whopping 50% to $249 outright. Nothing is listed on the website but this is solid rollback pricing!

Update: We’re hearing mixed pricing on the Walmart 16GB PlayBook, some are getting the discounted price and others are stuck at the $499 price. Not sure what’s happening there but some are getting a good deal. In addition, Future Shop and Best Buy have both lowered the 16GB price to $299.99. They have reduced the price by $100 and also extended a $100 gift card when you purchase online. As for the 32GB version, this now has been dropped to $399.99 and the 64GB falls to $499.99.

Check it out here at Future Shop and at Best Buy (follow through to the check out process)

(Thanks mohsen!)

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This is a good sign for those eager to get a PlayBook at a discounted price. A week ago both Rogers and TELUS reduced the price of RIM’s first tablet, but it was only available to their employees. Checking out this receipt from Walmart Canada it looks like a massive sale is quietly happening. The price of the 16GB version has been slashed by a whopping 50% to $249 outright. Nothing is listed on the website but this is solid rollback pricing!

(Thanks mohsen!)

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It is the most famous scientific equation of them all but last night it
emerged Einstein’s theory of relativity may be wrong.

After yesterday’s Facebook revamp, Mark Zuckerberg still had a few new features to reveal at today’s f8 conference. The most important? Timeline, a complete reconceptualization of your profile page. More »

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The network picks up 13 episodes of the drama from “Heroes” creator Tim Kring and sets a spring premiere date.

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Well, Mark’s just unveiled Facebook’s new look at his f8 keynote, and he’s calling it Timeline. The idea is to make it easier to see what you want to see from your past, by placing a, surprise surprise, timeline on the right edge of your profile page that breaks down your content by year and month. It’s a much more visual experience than Facebook’s previous threads, and Timeline Views allow you to filter the content by photos, where you’ve been (courtesy of Bing maps innovation), and much more. You can also add apps, “likes”, and all of your other content in neatly organized panes on your profile page to make it easier to “tell the story of your life” in the way you want to — including the ability to go back and add stuff to your timeline after the fact, no flux capacitor required.

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Could you stay in your house without leaving? Could the internet provide everything? This infographic takes a look at what we’re doing online and how the internet has brought the outside world to our doorstep.

Follow the link below for a high-res version of the above infographic.

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Could you stay in your house without leaving? Could the internet provide everything? This infographic takes a look at what we’re doing online and how the internet has brought the outside world to our doorstep.

Follow the link below for a high-res version of the above infographic.

Never Leave home Again [CollegeAtHome via Unplggd]

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Research firm comScore came out with some Canadian mobile stats a couple months back, all based on March 2011 numbers. At the time they stated that “12.3 percent of Canadian mobile subscribers accessed banking. During the CWTA Wireless Showcase comScore presented some updated numbers and the trend continued – mobile usage is increasing. You can see some of the previous stats we posted here, mainly about OS market share and how Apple, RIM, HTC and Samsung are all battling it out.

Using your mobile device as a “wallet” will be an everyday experience in 2012, some are adopting it early and doing the basic transactions or using a mobile banking app. comScore stated that since March “Mobile Baking is up 21%”, leading to believe that 33.3% of mobile subscribers use a mobile banking app (based on 20,111,000 subscribers). The most used mobile app is TD Canada Trust with 26%, followed by RBC (21%), CIBC (16%), BMO (10%) and Scotia Bank (10%). Not surprising, Canadians use iOS and the iPhone the most to access their account and perform basic functions, followed by RIM and the BlackBerry OS, specifically on the Torch 9800 (touchscreen/QWERTY keyboard) and Google’s Android OS is creeping up in popularity.

Related posts:

1. Report: 12.3% of Canadian wireless subscribers use mobile banking
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The answer is simple: old math is greater than new math, according to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.