Apple Pay expands to Canada with support from major banks this June

Apple's SVP for Apple Pay Jennifer Bailey demos the features of Apple Pay which is coming to Canada this JuneBy Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple Pay is available to all active Interac debit cards issued by CIBC and RBC. Your debit card does not have to be an Interac Flash enabled card. In stores, Apple Pay works with iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. You will first need to add your debit card to the Apple Wallet to make mobile transactions.

Interac can be used with Apple Pay to buy goods and services across Canada in the hundreds of thousands of Canadian stores wherever contactless payments 

Apple Pay, which securely uses iPhone and Apple Watch to enable contact less payments, has been in Canada for some time now but limited to customers of American Express credit cards. That is all changing shortly as major banks and other credit card companies have been announced as partners and are looking to offer the functionality to their iPhone and Apple Watch-toting users. 

Apple has confirmed that Apple Pay will be coming to CIBC (credit and debit), ATB (credit, debit coming later), Canadian Tire Financial Services (credit), RBC (credit and debit) and of course American Express has enjoyed the first-mover advantage since late last year. 

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Research Infosource: RIM is Canada's top R&D spender with $1.4billion in 2010

Research in Motion (RIM) remains Canada’s top corporate R&D spender, devoting nearly $1.4 billion to research, an increase of 26.3% over Fiscal 2009. RIM’s spending on research expanded slightly faster than its revenues (up 20.1%) according to a study by Research Infosource.

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Apps & Launches: RoboForm locks in on Password Management, RBC goes Android, Floop polls

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

As the number of websites, email accounts,  cloud services and applications in our lives increase, the common solutions of having a single password isn't only risky, it just isn't smart. Pasword management is an even bigger deal when one works through different computers, devices and browsers. RoboForm is an app that's designed to manage multitude passwords securely no mattery what device you are using.

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CES 2011: Microsoft Surface 2 with RBC app demoed (video)

A Canadian first. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is  a Microsoft Surface PC partner. This was the demo from the Microsoft Keynote at CES 2011. The Surface 2 has Pixelsense (pixels are cameras) and a thinner form factor that allows it to be mounted on a wall, it also has the largest slate of protective Gorilla Glass bonded to a screen.