May 2010

Here is an iPhone app for our Toronto readers! Yorkdale Shopping Centre, one of Canada's premier shopping destinations, has recently launched and updated an iPhone app to ensure a more convenient and luxurious shopping experience. The mall includes over 240 shopping locations, featuring such retailers as Tiffany & Co, Burberry, Holt Renfrew, Coach, and the...

Yesterday Apple seeded iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 to developers. This was exactly two weeks after the the release of Beta 3. As always, once these new betas are out in the open "newly" discovered features make it onto the Internet in lightning speed. Here's a round up of some of the newest features in...

This evening, Apple pushed out the iPhone SDK 4.0 Beta 4 and the iPhone 4.0 Firmware Beta 4 (8A274B). This comes exactly two weeks since the last release of iPhone 4.0 Beta 3 on May 4, 2010. Apple typically follows a 2-week release schedule for beta releases of iPhone firmware. The firmware 4.0 update is...

Today Apple seeded the fourth build of OS X 10.6.4, build 10F54. The current build comes just days since the last OS X build, 10F50. According to reports, the current build focuses on Graphics Drivers, SMB, VPN, USB, and VoiceOver. The build further includes the following updates and enhancements, which are unchanged from the last...

Effective May 19, 2010, Fido has released the CityFido plans for Winnipeg residents. The two CityFido plans include 2,000 or 4,000 local anytime minutes and unlimited local and international text messages. The plans are geared toward home phone replacements and the minutes are only valid within a certain geographical zone (seen below). Details about the...

Over the last few weeks and months, VISA, the credit card company, has been making plans to turn the iPhone into a credit card. By using just an iPhone, users could pay for their transactions at retailers without ever having to touch their VISA card. Two weeks ago, VISA announced that they had partners with...

We heard yesterday of the report from Digitimes that mentioned the next iPhone will have display improvements and a possible June 25th launch. Thanks to the editors at Gizmodo, we already know what the next iPhone 4G looks like. Recently a few other sources have managed to get their hands on the next iPhone, including...

Reports from DigiTimes claim that the next generation iPhone, rumored to be released in June 2010, will receive numerous improvements that will top many currently available smartphones. To date, the majority of rumors indicate that the next iPhone will have a high resolution display of 960 x 640 pixels, compared to the current 480 x...

When iPhone OS 4 was announced, and we got to hear some of the new features coming, there was excitement. then disapointment, as we learned only the iPhone 3GS and the newer, unreleased iPhones would get all the features. The jailbreak community quickly learned that some of the missing features could be added to the...

We all know that Steve Jobs is unlike any corporate CEO. He's willing to go 'tit for tat' with customers that email him about issues or concerns. Steve also is pretty clear that he doesn't like Adobe's Flash plugin. When Gawker's Ryan Tate decided to email Jobs after the latest iPad commercial irritated him. What...

App developer Greg Hughes came up with an awesome idea--to sync your iPhone wirelessly using Wi-Fi. This has been a much requested feature by many iPhone enthusiasts but it has never come to fruition from Apple. Greg submitted his app to the App Store but it was denied. He has now released the app on...

Today Apple seeded the third build of OS X 10.6.4, build 10F50. The current build comes just over one week since the last OS X build, 10F46. According to reports, the current build focuses on Graphics Drivers, SMB, VPN, USB, and VoiceOver. The build further includes the following updates and enhancements: Resolve an issue that...