TORONTO – The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says Marineland has taken several steps to improve animal care following allegations of mistreatment. The OSPCA says the Niagara Falls amusement park has complied with four out of seven orders issued as part of the agency’s investigation into the allegations. The agency’s chairman, Rob Godfrey, says Marineland has ... Read More »
Late last month, Rovio announced it would be launching Angry Birds Toons, a new animated series based on the company’s hugely popular Angry Birds franchise. Then just last week, it announced the series would be landing in a familiar place, namely, on iOS through the existing Angry Birds apps. Rovio also said the series would premiere today, March 17. And ... Read More »
Google will soon unify all its disparate chat services under a single banner called Babble, a new report says. The new service will be integrated throughout all of Google’s communication products, most of which have their own specific features and abilities, which are sometimes incompatible with each other. According to Geek.com’s “multiple sources,” Google will build Babble into everything from ... Read More »
Rumors around an Apple wristwatch have been making rounds on the internet lately, but there’s another major player who’d like to get in on the smartwatch craze — Samsung. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them,” said executive VP of Samsung’s mobile ... Read More »
You may soon see Rosie the Robot strolling the halls of more hospitals now that iRobot’s remote presence robot has been given official FDA clearance. The Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, or RP-VITA for short, is the first autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance for use in hospitals. The RP-VITA was made by iRobot, makers ... Read More »
Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to be a part of your everyday life, and she’s pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to achieve it. In a half-hour interview with Bloomberg Television’s Erik Schatzker in Davos, Mayer spoke about the need to work Yahoo into people’s daily activities — checking the weather and the news, playing games — through mobile, personalization and partnerships. When ... Read More »
NEW YORK – Conrad Bain, the Canadian-born actor who played the kindly white adoptive father of two African-American brothers on the ’80s sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died. He was 89. Bain died Monday of natural causes in Livermore, Calif., according to his daughter, Jennifer Bain. “He was very, very dedicated…. A very, very good actor,” Jack Merigold, a former stage ... Read More »
In 2012, tablets outsold notebook computers in the US and China, but 2013 will be the year this trend goes global, according to NPD DisplaySearch. That’s three years ahead of analysts’ earlier estimates, and reflects a projected 64% growth in tablet purchases in 2013 versus 2012. This growth is driven primarily by a surge in purchases of smaller 7-inch and ... Read More »
Have you ever searched for someone from your past on Facebook? Perhaps you’ve taken to a social networking site to locate a long-lost relative? There’s never been a better way to find people from your past than with the help of Facebook. We’ve seen dozens of cases where family members were able to finally connect through the use of social ... Read More »
NEW YORK – The NHL is most likely to play a 48-game season after its new collective bargaining agreement is ratified. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Canadian Press on Monday morning that hope for a 50-game schedule was already fading as the league and NHL Players’ Association continued to work towards finalizing the document their constituents will eventually vote ... Read More »
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