It appears Apple has acquired C3 Technologies, a 3D mapping company based in Sweden, reports 9to5Mac: Sure enough, we have now learned Apple is now the owner of C3 Technologies. Sources say that C3 Technologies CEO Mattias Astrom, C3 Technologies CFO Kjell Cederstrand, and lead C3 Technologies Product Manager Ludvig Emgard are now working within...
Earlier this month The City of Vancouver released a free iPhone app that aims to increase voter turnout for the November 19th civic election. The app lists election-related information, such as, including election and pre-election dates, candidates’ biographies, will tell you what polling station to vote at, what ID is required, and how to vote by...
One of the coolest features of iBooks is wireless bookmark syncing. If you're reading a book on your iPad, and lay down your bookmark--it should also magically appear on your iPhone or iPod touch. As described by Apple: iBooks will automatically remember where you left off each time you close a book or return to...
Today Samsung officially announced its financial results for the third-quarter, and while they didn’t release the number of smartphone units sold, that hasn’t stopped Strategy Analytics from declaring them the unit sales leader in smartphones. Strategy Analytics has compiled the third-quarter results of all smartphone manufacturers and stated that Samsung [has] becomes the world’s number one...
As we reported two weeks ago, SaskTel and MTS confirmed they would offer the iPhone 4S on October 28th, two weeks after the official launch. SaskTel's website shows the 16GB and 32GB models are available at the regular carrier subsidized prices of $159.99 and $269.99. The 64GB model currently is not available and is listed...
MuscleNerd from The iPhone Dev Team has just tweeted out an image that proves a preliminary iPhone 4S jailbreak exists. Don't take this picture as proof a public jailbreak is coming anytime soon. He notes there are still 'huge missing pieces' that prevents a release along with 'lots of work left'. We previously questioned the...
Turns out Rogers is officially the world's worst internet throttler based on research derived from the initiative known as the Measurement Lab (MLab), backed by Google. Results of the study reveal that based out of all the internet providers on earth, Rogers throttles internet more than any other ISP out there, notes TorrentFreak. As we've...
Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs hit the iBookstore earlier this week with some small hiccups. MacWorld is reporting that a small number of customers who downloaded the iBook are suffering from formatting problems, rendering some of the pages illegible and causing some of the photos not to load. An email was recently sent out...
A new Volkswagon Beetle is coming to Canada, and there's a new augmented reality campaign to introduce it. The campaign consists of billboards in Toronto's Dundas Square, posters on bus shelters throughout Toronto and Vancouver, and other traditional print-based media for the rest of Canada. The app is a free download. Then all you have to...
If you haven't figured it out already, iOS 5 enables native support for the Emoji keyboard (instead of previously downloading an app, or installing a tweak from Cydia), to allow users access to the plethora of neat little emoticons. To do so, just go to: General-->International-->Keyboards-->Add New Keyboard-->Emoji After you've added the Emoji keyboard, or...
The Apple TV rumours keep on coming! When it was revealed that Jobs declared he'd "finally cracked” the secret to building an easy-to-use television set, and said it would have "the simplest user interface you could imagine", many commentators assumed that he was referring to Apple’s plans to build a full-fledged television. But, according...
If you haven't already purchased the Steve Jobs biography from the iBookstore or Amazon.ca, you can get a fantastic deal from Costco for $21.97. This is much cheaper than the Canadian cover price of $37.00, and beats the Amazon.ca price of $23. The Steve Jobs biography was released on Monday (and earlier at some outlets...
