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Back in April of this year, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) introduced a contest for developers to create a digital payment system using their new MintChip technology. With voting taking place just over a week later, the RCM has announced the winners of the contest today: Winners in the following categories are as follows: Best Overall...

Back in July, Sparrow team announced its acquisition by Google saying that they do not plan to release any future updates for the Sparrow iOS and Mac apps. Despite the early statement, the much-loved email client will soon be getting an iPhone 5 compatibility update, according to Sparrow founder Dom Leca (via TNW). Sparrow team tagged the iOS and Mac...

Starbucks tweeted over an hour ago their update for Passbook support will be coming at the end of the month. Apple first showed off Starbucks as one of the partners for Passbook at WWDC this June, but we haven't seen it officially supported yet in iOS 6. https://twitter.com/Starbucks/statuses/249202870891728896 Developers are quickly updating their apps for...

With the iPhone 5 release toppling us, Apple has set some new guidelines to application developers. When in the submission process of an application, developers must now provide additional screenshots with their submission. Here are the required screenshot resolution requirements: 640 x 1136 (portrait) 640 x 1096 (portrait) 1136 x 640 (landscape) 1136 x 600 (landscape) An application will not be reviewed...

More and more app updates are being pushed out for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5. A couple notable ones today include Facebook and Flipboard, two great apps to try out when you get your iPhone 5 tomorrow. Facebook was completely revamped from the ground up and released at the end of August. The latest...

Following the public release of iOS 6, tons of mainstream iOS app have received updates in the past 48 hours and now, Garmin has also pushed a significant update to its NAVIGON navigation app with public transportation features, Apple Maps integration and support for new 4-inch display of the iPhone 5. NAVIGON by Garmin is considered by many...

Dan Cobley, Google's UK Marketing Director, completed an interview with Bloomberg TV that shed some light on the Google Maps iOS 6 application. He never specifically stated that the application would be hitting the App-Store, but rather hinted that users could download Google Maps on their iPhone 5. And iPhone 5 users can still use...

Another week, and a new free App Pick of the Week from Apple. This time, it looks like the latest pick has been updated a day earlier than usual. Today we see the game Albert getting featured as the lastest free download. This game is unique to iOS and has 20 adventures for you to...

Following the official iOS 6 release a few hours ago, Apple has started pushing updates to all its official iOS apps to support the new release. We've already reported the Podcasts update with iOS 6 support and now, updates have been released for iPhoto, iMovie, Find My Friends, iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers), GarageBand and iTunes Movie...

Evernote has today released the all new Skitch 2.0 app for Mac and iOS that not only brings a re-designed UI and great new features for OS X and iPad, but also a brand new iPhone / iPod touch version. The iOS Skitch app is now a universal binary and is available as a free...

Apple has released iOS 6 to the general public today alongside a major OS X Mountain Lion update and now, the official Podcasts app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has also received an update to support the latest iOS release. The standalone Podcasts app was released in June this year and enables iOS users...

For users of Pocket, they have announced the release their 4.2 update to bring support for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5's new 4-inch screen, set to be released this Friday. Here's what's new: What's New in Version 4.2 New: ? Tumblr users can now select which blog (or blogs) to post to ? Compatibility...