Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Last week, Apple pushed out an updated build, 9B208, of iOS 5.1.1 for the GSM iPhone 4. The new iOS 5.1.1 build could not be jailbroken with existing tools, so a new version of Absinthe, 2.0.2, was released. Continuing the support for other iOS devices and builds, today Absinthe has been update to version 2.0.4...

For those with a jailbroken iPhone 4, specifically a tethered jailbreak, the Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether package has been updated to version 1.0-2. The update brings support for the newest iPhone 4 (GSM) iOS 5.1.1 build 9B208 that was released last week. With this package installed, users can turn their iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak into an untethered one,...

This afternoon Research in Motion (RIM) released a press release stating that the company has hired J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to assist in creating a “strategic review”. This news comes as the company is about to lay off upwards of 3,000 employees and is struggling to manage over $1 billion in unsold inventory....

If you're like me and you're waiting for Research in Motion's (RIM) Playbook to go on a mega fire sale (because the company is slowly sinking), we may soon be in luck! Last quarter, RIM's mountain of unsold Blackberry devices and Playbook tablets shot past $1 billion in value, further revealing the struggles that the...

If you've ever wondered how Apple gets color into their aluminum products, or if you just enjoy science and engineering, then check out this video by Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy. As many know, Apple uses an anodized aluminum finish on many of its products to keep them from corroding and to also provide a...

Apple CEO Tim Cook will be starting the D10 conference tonight as the headlining interviewee. The chat begins tonight at 6PM PDT. This interview is Cook's second public interview this year. His first was at the Goldman Sachs' annual Technology and Internet Conference. There Cook discussed worker safety, financials, products, and Apple's culture. The interview...

This morning Apple updated their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) page with new information, a schedule of events, and a new app. From the News page, attendees now have access to the event schedule for various labs, sessions, and events. There is also an available grid for registration and event hours. Along with the news...

Earlier tonight the Chronic Dev-Team announced that 1,000,000 iDevices have been jailbroken with Absinthe. Some stats since release of #Absinthe - 211,401 jailbroken iPad3's and 973,086 devices newly jailbroken! #JBFTW ! ;D Absinthe was released earlier this week and then recently updated with support for all iOS 5.1.1 builds. For an Absinthe jailbreaking tutorial, click...

If you’ve seen people walking around taking a movie using a handcranked gadget, chances are you’ve seen a “wannabe” filmmaker taking part in the art of analogue movie making, thanks to the LomoKino. The LomoKino is an analogue movie maker that uses 35MM film, turning it into a one-minute visually-stunning home movie. The popularity of...

Yesterday we saw the release of Absinthe 2.0 to jailbreak your iOS devices on iOS 5.1.1. Within a few hours, an updated 2.0.1 version was released to fix some bugs. Version 2.0.1 worked for the majority of users. However later last night, Apple pushed out an updated build, 9B208, of iOS 5.1.1 for the GSM...

Rogers opened their latest (shall we call it Rogers Store 2.0?) retail store last week, just steps from posh Yorkville, on Canada’s longest street. It’s not just another store you just go to service your phone or pay your Rogers bill, rather, an environment that encourages a fostering of tech-communities. Taking over the space of...

Late tonight, iH8Sn0w updated sn0wbreeze to be able to perform an untethered jailbreak of A4 iDevices running iOS 5.1.1. As indicated in the post, sn0wbreeze now supports the iOS 5.1.1 build 9B206 untether that was released earlier today in Absinthe. The update also supports iOS 5.0 build 9B206f (Apple TV 2) and further brought some interface...