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By Gary Ng on April 17th, 2012

It’s Tuesday, and once again we have a new ‘Pick of the Week’ from Starbucks. This time around it’s a free movie rental, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. Previous weeks have alternated between apps and music, and this is the first time we’ve seen a free movie rental. Force of Nature was released…

By Gary Ng on April 16th, 2012

The Pebble e-paper watch has made Kickstarter history as the most funded project ever, surpassing $3.3 million dollars in pledges with still 31 days to go. We told you about the project prior to it hitting $1 million in under 30 hours. The project clearly shows that innovation is rewarded on Kickstarter. Here’s an email…

By Gary Ng on April 16th, 2012

We’ve long heard whispers of free online storage being offered by Google, but now The Next Web is reporting a free service is set to launch next week. Google Drive will offer 5GB of free online storage, and would set to rival Dropbox (which currently offers 2GB of free online storage) primarily and even attempt…

By Gary Ng on April 16th, 2012

Earlier we heard rumours of French designer Philippe Starck working on a ‘revolutionary’ project with Apple, which the company denied. Starck has now confirmed to the WSJ (as noted by App Advice) he is indeed working on the yacht project he started with Steve Jobs, but it is being continued by his wife Laurene: A spokeswoman…

By Usman on April 16th, 2012

Only a couple of days back, Apple released its own Flashback Removal Tool for OS X, making the world’s most advanced operating system fully secure again and today, a new Java based trojan has been discovered by Kaspersky Labs expert Costin Raiu. The expert explains in a blog post that the trojan, which is known as “LuckyCat”, takes advantage of…

By Usman on April 16th, 2012

A Beijing based group, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), is set to carry out a joint audit with Apple of one its supplier factories in China, regarding environmental pollution concerns. Wang Jing Jing, the vice director of IPE said that they will be working with Apple and an auditing firm hired to investigate the supplier’s pollution controls, the…

By Gary Ng on April 16th, 2012

The Toronto police have noticed cellphone robberies have risen over the the past three years and want the cellphone industry to do more to protect their customers, such as creating a database that can disable stolen cellphones, says Supt. Ron Taverner: “Our goal is to get the carriers, the providers, the cellphone companies to come…

By Usman on April 15th, 2012

In an interview by Neowin, Mark Hulme, the producer of upcoming Steve Jobs indie movie starring Ashton Kucher, has revealed some interesting tidbits about the movie’s plot. According to Hulme, the film will cover Apple and Steve Jobs’ life from 1971 to 2000. The producer also said that they chose Ashton to play the role of Jobs because of his…

By Usman on April 15th, 2012

In a recent publication, 9to5Mac points out that Apple Store Genius Bars have been issued a notification regarding white 16GB iPhone 4 handset replacements. They have been instructed to upgrade white 16GB iPhone 4 customers seeking replacement under warranty to iPhone 4S instead due to shortages in inventory of white iPhone 4 16GB. The order stands valid for…

By Usman on April 14th, 2012

Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly been seen visiting the Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation, the famous video game developer and owner of Steam gaming platform (via Apple Insider). Since Valve’s Steam platform works similar to the iOS App Store, providing a market for downloadable PC video game titles, it is being speculated that Cook’s visit might…