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As tipped earlier, T-Mobile has released a new carrier update for the iPhone to add some new and important features like Visual Voicemail, LTE and HD Voice support for eligible devices, the updated support forum informs (via TmoNews). (more…)

Seattle Police is seeking help in arresting this team of thieves, who grabbed an iPhone on March 18 at Sixth Avenue and Pine Street and was caught in the act by surveillance cameras (via SeattlePi). According to the Police, the lookouts were a young man wearing a black sweatshirt and baseball cap and a man who...

Last month's federal budget includes an 'accidental' iPod tax, as discovered by associate professor Mike Moffatt from the Richard Ivey School of Business, who believes the inclusion might have been 'accidental'. Moffat says the Conservative government might have accidentally included levy on iPods and other digital music players due in part to complicated tariff codes....

With Target Canada quickly expanding its locations across Canada, some deals are currently available this week for Apple products. This week's flyer notes the fourth generation iPad is selling for $499, but will include a bonus $50 gift card. For those who buy the latest iPod nano, that purchase also comes with a $15 gift...

In a presentation given earlier today at Facebook's campus in Menlo Park, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC called 'First', that runs on AT&T's network and will be released on April 12th for $99 (via The Verge). The company also showed off its new 'Facebook Home' app for Android, that puts feeds...

In order to battle Apple's highly successful chain of retail stores worldwide, Samsung has decided to partner with Best Buy and open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within the retailer’s existing stores, AllThingsD is reporting. According to Ketrina Dunagan, the Samsung VP of retail, the Korean company has made this decision because 70% of consumers live within 10 miles of...

Google has announced it will no longer be using the WebKit rendering engine to power Google Chrome. Rather, the company will soon launch Blink, a new rendering engine based on WebKit that will be open source: However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has...

In a bizarre and creepy case in Winnipeg, a man has been convicted of voyeurism after it was discovered he had planted an iPhone in the washroom of a Fountain Tire location on Warman Road. Arcel Gagnon was a commercial tire tech at the time and last April a customer stumbled upon an iPhone recording...

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Friends, a game exclusively launched on Facebook last May, will soon have its own iOS app for the iPhone and iPad. This latest addition will allow iOS users to challenge their Facebook friends in various weekly tournaments: Pop some piggies with your friends wherever you are! Angry Birds Friends spruces...

Numerous rumours have pointed towards Apple releasing a budget iPhone made with a plastic backing. We previously saw concept images of what a lower-cost iPhone would look like, but what about a phone with translucent backing taking a page from the iMac G3? Nickolay Lamm has posted some impressive concepts of what this would entail,...

Last week it was rumoured Facebook was set to announce an Android-powered smartphone, made by HTC, to be unveiled at an event held this Thursday morning at the social network's Menlo campus in California. Yesterday Android Police reported on a dump of the phone's Android build, codenamed "Myst", confirming earlier specs revealed by Unwired View this is...

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple will start producing its next generation iPhone in the second quarter of 2013. People with knowledge of the device's production plan are also claiming that the next iPhone will sport the same size and shape as the iPhone 5, fuelling speculations that Apple's next smartphone...