Elections Canada is taking steps to ensure that social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, aren’t a factor in revealing election results on May 2nd as polls close across the country. They’ve forbidden the posting of electoral results across time zones. According toThe Ottawa Citizen, the body responsible for handling federal elections has created an interpretation of what it refers to as “premature transmission” of any election results. “Results disseminated to an individual’s friends through Facebook’s e-mail service would not be considered public transmission....

With thelaunch of the popular music streaming service Spotify in the US today, Canadians have been once again left out in the cold. Sort of. While Spotify has been getting a lot of notice,Rdioalready has a large amount of Canadian users and very well could wind up being the streaming and subscription based service of choice in The Great White North — even after other services decide to test the waters....

It’s been accepted as somewhat common knowledge that the next iPhone would not be an LTE device. Given what we’ve seen with LTE phones thus far, the battery drain is just too heavy and the chipsets aren’t yet refined enough for them to make sense in an Apple device. However, if what we’re seeing onBGRturns out to be true then Apple is at least carrier testing an LTE iPhone. It seems that the site has gotten its hands onto a property list (plist) file that shows traces of LTE in the code:...

After a temporary $100 reduction in price via an in-store coupon at Staples this weekend, HP has made the price drop official by dropping the TouchPad to $399 for the 16GB version and $499 for the 32GB version, according to a letter from HPs SVP of Personal Systems Steven DiFranco published byWebOS Roundup. This move isn’t that surprising, considering that reviews of the tablet haven’t been incredibly positive so far....

Bad news abounds for the fans of Windows Phone 7: there will be no update for the phone lineuntil March. The update, as we have previously reported, contains the much-requested copy and past functionality that is sorely lacking from the platform. The update was thought to be coming in short order just a few days ago whenan update to Zuneseemed to portent its imminent arrival. What is causing the endless delays?...