Shazam hits 300 million worldwide users, releases new versions for Android and iPad

Shazam, the popular content recignition app used to find out what songs, movies and shows are playing in real time today unveiled its exciting new user experience for iPad and Android tablet fans, including a completely redesigned home screen, an improved layout for Shazam tag results for both TV and music, and a new way to browse what your friends have been tagging.

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CES 2013: Canon to challenge smartphones with PowerShot N

What can digital camera manufacturers do to keep users interested when everyone's moving to smartphones as their point-and-shoot camera of choice. Canon has created an entirely new product called the PowerShot N which has a squarish and compact shape, features easy operation and has WiFi built in. The PowerShot N is expected to ship next month and will cost $300. A little steep for what it is but you do get 8x optical zoom, a 2.8 swiveling touch screen and the ability to shoot HD video.

The Apple Beat: 5 Technologies Apple pioneered that became tech standards

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple gets a lot of flack for dropping and discontinuing technologies from their products. They also get criticized for pushing new standards forward, some of these stick and the industry adopts them

They are known as much for their innovations as they are for their exclusions. Here are are some technologies that Apple pioneered which were eventually adopted by the rest of the industry.

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7.9-inch Apple iPad mini finally arrives, starts at $329 and preorders begin Friday

Apple finally unveiled its much awaited and highly rumoured iPad mini. The device has a 7.9-inch screen but with the same 1024-by-768 resolution of the iPad 2. Starting at $329 for the 16GB WiFi only version, the iPad mini features a dual-core A5 processor, 5 megapixel rear camera, 1.2 megapixel FaceTime camera, 10-hour battery and is 23 per cent thinner than the big iPad as well as 53 per cent lighter at 0.68 lb. The WiFi versions of the iPad mini will be available on November 2 while the LTE-4G data capable version will come later.

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