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By Gary Ng on January 6th, 2012

Instagram has announced photos shared to Facebook will now automatically appear in a new album and full-sized images will show up in your news feed: The photos will appear full-sized in the News Feed along with the caption that you’ve added to the Instagram photo, and a link to the image’s public URL. This change…

By Gary Ng on January 5th, 2012

Update 1: Congrats to the following winners of TrapCall trials (check your emails!): – Tim – Derrick Rockwell – Belsim70 TrapCall is from TelTech Systems, and first made headlines in the U.S. with its initial free blocked call unmasking service. The company has now officially expanded its service outside U.S. borders to launch today in…

By Matt Watterworth on January 4th, 2012

Flurry, the world’s leading mobile application analytics platform, has released their holiday season app store download data with some interesting revelations. Flurry finds that the last week of 2011 saw 20 million iOS and Android activations and 1.2 billion applications downloaded over what’s being dubbed the holiday “power week.” That number represents a %60 increase…

By Gary Ng on January 4th, 2012

More and more cable companies are offering iPhone apps to allow customers to control their PVRs. The Telus Optik TV remote was released last Fall, and was eventually updated for iOS 5 last October. However, customers still reported issues with the app crashing incessantly even with the iOS 5 update. Just yesterday, Telus released a…

By Usman on January 4th, 2012

Rovio Mobile’s Ville Heijari has told AllThingsD that the total number of downloads for their three games i.e Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, touched a whopping 6.5 million on Christmas Day setting a new record for the multi-platform smashing hit franchise. Even more interesting to note is that this number approximately equals the total number of smartphone…

By Gary Ng on January 2nd, 2012

Vancity Credit Union recently launched their iOS banking app last December. Available for the iPhone and iPad, the fee download enables registered online banking customers to everyday banking activities, such as checking balances, transferring funds, paying bills, and send INTERAC e-Transfers. Upon launching the app, the same online banking login is all that is required…

By Gary Ng on January 1st, 2012

Update, 11:47AM PST, Jan. 2/12: The app is no longer free, but was free at the time of publishing more than 13 hours ago. Apple’s pick for the 2011 iPad app of the Year, Snapseed, is currently free in the App Store. The universal app also works on the iPhone and iPod touch with a…

By Gary Ng on December 31st, 2011

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year from iPhoneinCanada.ca! Here’s to a prosperous 2012. For those that haven’t had the clock strike midnight yet, you can watch the ball drop in Times Square in New York City with this official app on your iPhone.  

By Gary Ng on December 29th, 2011

Update 1: Numerous readers have pointed out Safeway’s deal on iTunes Cards beats this price by $2 by using this coupon, valid until January 1, 2012. The current sale is $37 for a $50 iTunes card, but this coupon brings it down to $35 (30% off)! == If you haven’t stocked up on iTunes Cards,…

By Gary Ng on December 24th, 2011

It’s still Christmas Eve here on the Westcoast and there’s one little freebie worth mentioning: WhatsApp Messenger is currently a free in the App Store. Normally $0.99, WhatsApp is probably the best cross-platform messaging app to allow iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia smartphones to send free SMS messages with each other in real time. You…