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EA Back to School iOS Sale: Up to 80% Off Games

EA is once again offering up an annual sale on iOS games, this time it's their 'Back to School' event, up to 80% off their best selling games. Here is the list of iPhone titles below: TETRIS® SCRABBLE FIFA 11 by EA SPORTS™ Fight Night Champion by EA SPORTS™ TRANSFORMERS:™ DARK OF THE MOON BATTLEFIELD:...

MobileMe Changeover to iCloud Will Result in 25GB Total Storage

Are you a MobileMe user? It now appears Apple has enabled developers to transfer over their annual allotted 20GB storage from MobileMe to iCloud, for free, according to 9to5Mac. This will result in 25GB total storage (5GB free + 20GB MobileMe) upon iCloud's launch this Fall, until June 30th, 2012. The following Apple support document...

Nuance Speech to Text Integration Revealed in iOS 5

When rumours of Nuance integration into iOS failed to materialize at WWDC, hints of speech to text have continued to show up in iOS 5. Now, with some digging screenshots have appeared of how Nuance will be integrated into iOS 5, as noted by 9to5Mac. As you can see below, all it will take is...

[Update] Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 to Developers

Update 2: The OTA update has appeared after following Apple's instructions below. Others were lucky and didn't have to erase all content and settings. Downloading! Update 1: The OTA update is still making its away out...nothing in Canada for me here at least. Some users have been able to get it. Stay tuned! Screen thanks...

Telus Q2 Net Profit Rises 7% on Smartphone Growth

Telus has announced their Q2 earnings, and their net profit rose 7% thanks largely in part to its wireless and Internet TV segments. Their growth outpaced rivals Rogers and Bell, and the company says that is a result of rapid smartphone sales such as the iPhone, that continues to increase data revenue and subscriber growth:...

Bell Launches 6GB $30 Data Plan, Expires September 30th

As predicted, Bell has gone ahead and launched a 6GB/$30 data plan to match their competitors, Rogers and Telus. We received a couple email tips this morning of internal notices about this announcement and it was further confirmed by our friends at MobileSyrup. Here are the details: - 6GB of data for $30; effective today...

Apple to Launch Lower-End iPhone Only If It Had ‘Category-Killer’ Experience

According to a new report by RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, Apple would only consider launching a lower-cost iPhone if it had an "innovative, category-killer experience". This was after Abramsky met with Apple Executives COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer on Wednesday, according to AppleInsider. Abramsky revealed the information through a set of...

FlexPlayer: Watch Almost All Video Formats on iPhone Without Conversion

If you download lots of non-Apple friendly videos to watch on your iOS device, you typically have to convert your videos before transferring them in iTunes via apps such as Handbrake. Now, you won't have to anymore as a newly released FREE app, FlexPlayer will do the job for you. Description below: ☆ Universal application...

IDC Report Confirms Apple is World’s Number One Smartphone Maker in Q2

It was previously reported Apple had become the world's largest smartphone maker, but yesterday IDC's own industry report confirmed it. Apple shipped 106.5 million smartphones in the second quarter, claiming a 19.1% share. Samsung followed in second place at 16.2% share, then Nokia in third place at 15.7%, and RIM next with 11.6%. The slow...

Thoughts About Wireless Charging for the iPhone

Early today we posted a patent that Apple has filed regarding inductive charging through headphones and earlier we told you about a WSJ report about charging. But what about some other possibilities? Two that I want to bring up are WiTricity and uBeam. Rumours have come up that Apple is interested in WiTricity. This company...

Creepy, Handy iPhone Case

I admit that I have had my fair share of iPhone cases, maybe you have as well but don't want to admit it. Either way I have never seen a case like this: Yes, that's a severed hand on the back of an iPhone case - okay, not a real hand. This case is coming...

Netflix Canada’s 1 Millionth Subscriber Wins Lifetime Membership

During Netflix's most recent earnings report, they mentioned their Canadian division was just short of 1 million subscribers, but that has changed. The milestone was reached last month, when Amanda Bell James from Flin Flon, Manitoba, joined Netflix Canada and won a lifetime membership. Now that's a nice little surprise. Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and...