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Smart calendar app Magneto launches a group mode for cross-company scheduling

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by on October 14, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Magneto has added cross-company group scheduling to its smart calendar service, enabling teams from different organizations to find times to meet. Magneto for Groups supports Microsoft Exchange and Google Calendar. At launch, the groups function works on the Web and iOS. Magneto plans to add Android support later. Members of a group can use the “Find a Time” filter to find out when certain combinations of people are available. Participants can choose to share full calendar details or just their busy times without any extra information. ➤ Magneto

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Hailo to pull out of North America as the taxi wars heat up

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by on October 14, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Hailo will stop offering taxi services in North America following a rethink of company strategy amid fierce competition from rivals like Uber. Revealed today in an interview with the Financial Times, company CEO Tom Barr said the plans to close in the US and Canada were because it was impossible to make a profit there. Instead, it plans to put more focus on Europe and Asia. Barr added that the service was actually seeing growth, but that the price war between services like Uber and Lyft had removed the viability of continuing with its operations in North America. Staff in Washington, Chicago, Boston, Toronto and Montreal…

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Amazon makes a gaming push with previews of three new exclusive titles

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by on October 14, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

As Amazon continues to push its hardware offerings, it needs to offer up interesting content exclusive to these devices. That being said, Amazon Game Studios today announced three games to do just that. First up is Til Morning’s Light, a Fire phone exclusive action-adventure game set in a haunted mansion. It’s being co-developed with WayForward Technologies, perhaps best known for A Boy and His Blob on the Wii. Next up is Tales From Deep Space, a “comic adventure” game set in, well, space.  It features two player co-op and is exclusive to Amazon’s Fire tablets. Finally, there’s CreepStorm, a tower…

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This hardware-software combo for the iPad creates a desktop video production studio

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by on October 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

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If you’ve ever had to deliver an online presentation, do a product review, or even hold up your end of a long-distance conversation with business associates or family members, you know that commanding and maintaining attention is a challenge. And if you’re not a drama school grad, trying to remember your lines with a camera pointing at you is brutal. To alleviate that pain, iTOi (pronounced ‘eye to eye’) has launched a new hardware-software combo for the iPad that optimizes your presentation by combining a glare-free Video Booth accessory with a software teleprompter so you never forget what to say. The Video Booth hardware facilitates all-important eye…

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BlackBerry Passport review: For every benefit, there’s a compromise

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by on October 14, 2014 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile, Product Reviews

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This isn’t a straight-forward review. If it was any other phone, I’d set it up, connect my usual accounts and go about my business of using it as much as possible, as with any review. However, and while this isn’t going to be a long moan about a lack of apps, I can’t do that with the Passport. Nor do I work for an organization tied to BlackBerry’s BES services either, so there’s no chance to test out things like BlackBerry Balance or corporate email; for all intents and purposes, I’m a pretty average consumer user in this scenario. That’s…

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