The Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference has just announced a price drop from $100 to $75. Bundled with the promo code TheGadgetSite offers “I<3CUTC@Van“, you can take another $25 to cut the price down to $50. If you happen to be SFU Computing Science, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, or Engineering, you can “hack” another $40-50 off the price. The conference can end up being free!
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HTC and Facebook have attempted to create a Facebook Android smartphone in the past. The HTC Status was known to be a flop for offering few value adds to the smartphone experience. However, this can all change tomorrow as HTC and Facebook unveils the HTC first.
The new Facebook user interface or skin on top of Android looks refreshing – promising even. Continue reading >>
Yet again, Google adds to its portfolio of innovation. On April 1, 2013, Google unveils a new feature in Google Maps. The world’s most popular internet mapping service now allows you to explore the world in the form of a treasure map.
Click Treasure on the top right corner of Google Maps to try Treasure Mode for yourself. Work together and solve the mystery.
Since the inception of YouTube, YouTube has been searching for the best online video of all time. But with over 70 hours of video uploaded per minute, it impossible to find the best video. Therefore, YouTube is going to stop talking uploads as of April 1, 2013 and begin to review all the existing videos to select the best video.
What do you think is the #bestvideo on YouTube? Continue reading >>
We always thought that Google knows everything. But now, its all about Google Nose.
Google Nose Beta seamlessly connects scent to search. Through R&D into aligning molecules with intersecting photons and infrasound waves, Google can create the smell of the words you search on Google.
Try searching on Google for “wet dog”, “success”, or “durian” and explore other smells that people have sniffed for, or visit google.com/nose to learn more.
Gmail has always been known for its iconic intuitive design. But now, Google introduces its innovative Gmail service in Blue. Gmail Blue – now even more Beautiful. Fast. Powerful.
Learn more about this project: http://gmail.com/blue
To all you tech lovers, I got a discount code to the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC). Get the most of your tech experience by networking with professionals from Microsoft, Facebook, GitHub and many tech start-ups.
It’s rare for Canada to have such a large tech event. Don’t miss out on Canada’s largest undergrad tech conference.
Check to see if your university qualifies you for a discount. If you attend UBC or SFU, computing science and engineering faculties could offer up to $50 a subsidy off your ticket. Paired with the “I<3CUTC@Van” discount code, you take another $25 off!
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As HTC snickers at Samsung, the leading smartphone provider using Android, HTC is showing arrogance and weakness. This is one of HTC’s latest tweets:
So…how off-Broadway is this production? #theNextBigFlop #HTCOne
— HTC (@htc) March 14, 2013
I am actually quite disappointed with HTC. I love their phones but their marketing and PR team is falling far behind Samsung, Apple, Sony and even Nokia.
Happy Pi Day Tech Junkies! If you go to a Canadian University, there is a tech event you definitely don’t want to miss out on!
The Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference is the largest undergrad tech conference in Canada with 4000 students and 150 industry leaders. On May 4th, you will have a chance to meet many engineers and computing scientists. One of them will be Mike Shaver, Director of Mobile Engineering at Facebook.
Visit infect.cutc.ca to learn more.
Lately, Samsung has been pushing its Galaxy products into the enterprise market through the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy and by providing its new service – Samsung For Enterprise (SAFE). On one hand, the ads demonstrate the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2′s multi-tasking abilities, but on the other hand, the ads ridicule redundancies on the iPhone and the BlackBerry. However, Samsung lies in the ad. Continue reading >>
