Bowing to the reality of modern technology, Canada today said it is changing a 1938 law that forbids broadcasting election results before polls close. This means no more fines like the one levied in 2000 against a Vancouver man who blogged about election results he obtained by satellite from the…

The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly number exceeding one billion for the first time.

Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscribers: the company has officially started to roll out its Timeline feature, and it looks like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has moved one step closer to getting…

What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and a pair of funding deals underscores the fact that people are continuing to back both horses. Urban Airship, which adds functionality to apps, has picked…

Our neighbors up north can now shop at the Canadian *Google* eBookstore, which is open for business today.

Even since BlackBerry users lost service for three days in mid-October, many have speculated that Research In Motion will be smacked with a class action suit. Well, two class actions have now been filed but there are good reasons to think RIM’s legal department is not wringing its hands just…

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year. So, after its next launches in the new year, Netflix will freeze international expansion.

It looks like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is once again rewriting the books on what it is that makes a smartphone sell. Those who thought that the iPhone 4S would be something of a disappointment—it looks just like its predecessor, and many had been anticipating something more dramatic—may have to eat…

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to roll out programming deals to buff up its streaming service. The latest is a multi-year licensing deal with AMC Networks for exclusive streaming syndication of Walking Dead in the U.S. and Canada with season one premiering today.

After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boost the on-demand programming available through Xbox Live. It took a shift in strategy to make room for broadcasters like the BBC, the trend toward authentication to bring on…

There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world—and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto some logs to kill a pig? But not all apps are as wildly successful as Angry Birds. So just as importantly, when it comes to what…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) thrives on scale for its business model. But when it comes to launching new products, the company has often taken a cautious—and, some might argue, slow—approach in rolling them out worldwide. That was the case with the Kindle, which took nearly two years to make its way…

A pretty troubling set of numbers out for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today. The Canada-based handset maker says that it has only shipped 200,000 PlayBook tablets, and sales in BlackBerry smartphones were dismal, too: the company has sold only 10.6 million handsets, well short of original estimates of 11.9 million.

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As promised, the streaming side of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has made its way south. The service went live in Brazil today with Netflix Brasil (announced here in Portuguese), with plans to roll out across Latin America and the Caribbean over the next week. By Sept. 12, Netflix expects to have…

Another day, another patent suit is hitting the courts. Today the Canada-based patent holder WiLAN has filed a suit in a U.S. court against a host of big-name tech companies, including Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and HTC, alleging patent infringements related to WiLAN patents in WiFi, LTE, CDMA and HSPA technologies.…

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking its almost obscure movie rental service to Canada, launching today with 1,000 or so films from Hollywood and the 49th parallel. If you think I’m exaggerating about the low-profile rental offering, even the announcement includes a light-hearted reminder that YouTube has a U.S. rental service.

It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world and started to leverage some of the power it’s already established through one of its most viral products, BlackBerry Messenger.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will take 80 percent of all tablet sales this year in North America. But that’s not entirely the case in Europe, it seems.

CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are expanding their relationship with a new deal that goes both north and south of the U.S. border—and illustrates how idiosyncratic some of these licensing moves can be thanks to existing deals, rights limitations and strategy. The two-year agreement is nearly all about…