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One of my favorite racing games of all time was Gran Turismo on the Playstation. That racing simulator was groundbreaking during its time. On iOS, an equivalent game in terms of amazing graphics and gameplay can be found in Firemint's Real Racing 2. The latest version builds on the successful Real Racing. This time around users...

App discovery can be an issue when there are over 350,000 apps to choose from. It's always nice to hear about those "gems" from friends. But it's even better to hear about worthy apps via twitter. Therefore, we are starting a new weekly addition to iPhoneinCanada.ca, called Top iPhone Apps This Week Recommended by YOU....

Angry Birds Rio. 45 levels. Coming in March 2011. Boom. [@RovioMobile]

This week, Google Latitude was updated to version 2.0.1, bringing increased battery life, various bug fixes, and support for the iPhone 3G. For those not already using Latitude, the app allows users to see where their friends are in real-time. Latitude lets users stay in touch with their friends and family by making it easy...

Task Ave is a location-aware task management app that helps users remember what they need to do and where they need to do it. The app makes it easy to manage tasks and their respective locations through local alerts. The app is fairly simple to use. Users just input a task (purchase milk next week)...

Overnight, the App Store reached its new milestone of 10 Billion downloaded apps! Launching in 2008, the App Store has been extremely successful since day one, taking just over two and half years to reach 10 Billion downloaded apps. For comparison, it took the iTunes Music Store almost seven years from its 2003 launch to...

Here we go again. The Rovio team is raking it in with themed versions of their smash hit, Angry Birds. We've seen Halloween and Christmas versions so far, but get ready for the Valentine's Day version soon to be released on February 14th. I bet they'll get over a million downloads again, easily. In the...

A 14-year-old Canadian has reached Apple's "New and Noteworthy" app list for utilities in both Japan and Canada after creating an app called "The Universal Alarm Clock". Rony Besprozvanny, our young Canadian developer, has managed to secure himself 1,500 downloads in the first four days since the app was released on January 15 2011, shooting...

Currently the race to 10 billion iPhone app downloads will result in a winner of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Apple has also listed a page within iTunes that shows the all-time top free and paid iPhone apps. Preview of the Top Paid iPhone apps: Preview of the Top Free iPhone apps: Also listed on...

There have been some tweaks released, in the jailbreak community, to enable AirPlay to work with 3rd party apps. With the beta release of iOS 4.3, we now know that Apple plans to open up this feature to developers, so that they can add it to there own apps. The are still some cool apps...

How many iOS devices do you own? With each device comes downloads from the App Store. Reaching 10 billion app downloads very soon, the App Store has been nothing short of a success story. Asymco.com breaks down just how many apps are downloaded per device sold: The number of apps downloaded for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch is...

Today Apple launched a new 10 Billion App Countdown promotion to mark the upcoming 10 Billionth downloaded App! The user who downloads the 10 billionth app gets a $10,000 iTunes gift card! As of today, nearly 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps...