QuickBooks 2010 easy to accept credit cards

With Quickbooks 2010 via Intuit Merchant Services, you now have the ability to accept credit card and debit card payments directly,  enabling you to have cash in your account that much faster –  in typically 1-2 days.  READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG

Outlook Mac Coming Back

With Microsoft Office for Mac  returning with a whole new look for  2011 this October, one old friend from the past will be emerging after a decade of absence – Outlook for MacREAD FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG

Book Your Room, Meet The Beatles, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Offering incentives to get customer to stay at one’s hotel is nothing new these days and with so many outlets vying for your hospitality dollar, it’s something you’d likely expect.

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Review: TomTom Ease portable GPS

Living in Edmonton and not doing a substantial amount of annual driving, I never thought I would have the need for a GPS.  So when the opportunity arose to head south on a 4000km+ round trip journey to Salt Lake City Utah for my good friend Luigi’s wedding, I thought this might be the time to use a little technology to ease the pain of long distance travel.  READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG

The Tide is Nigh for Google Wave

After a little more than a year, Google Wave is hitting the rocks.

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Vuzix Wrap 310XL: big screen eyewear

They look like an unsuspecting pair of sunglasses, but when you wear the Vuzix WRAP 310XL it replaces your video display screen whether you’re watching a movie or playing a video game while laying on the beach…READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG

iPhone 4 Hands on Review

The long awaited and much anticipated Apple iPhone 4 arrives in Canada today and if you thought the iPhone 3GS was an innovation, Apple’s 4th generation device with their new energy efficient and  their own powerful A4 chip,  is way beyond that. After test-driving it for a few days it exceeded my expectations, incorporating slick new features available today that were once only as realistic as you had seen them in the movies.  READ FULL REVIEW AT CANOE TECH

iPhone 4 price war looming in Canada? Greg Gazin – July 29th, 2010

With less than a day to go before the launch of the iPhone 4 in Canada, it seems like we could be looking at an all out iPhone 4 price war.  READ FULL ARTICLE AT CANOE TECH

Dutch Gamers set Guinness Record for continuous play

Six Dutch gamers broke the Guinness World Book for Records for non-stop gaming, playing Red Dead Redemption for a whopping 50 hours straight on a Sony PlayStation 3.  READ FULL POST AT CANOE BLOG

RIM & Rival Take Issue Over Apple’s Antenna Claims

Blackberrybold9700 Holding 20100715 All eyes were certainly on Apple and Steve Jobs. He admitted imperfection and acknowledged the iPhone 4 in fact did have an antenna problem.  But after showing how other smartphone manufacturers have the same problem, it’s not surprising that the other parties singled-out would have something to say about it.  READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG