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As the jailbreak community can finally set their iDevices free thanks to evasi0n, the Evad3rs' untethered jailbreak tool for iOS 6, a fresh wave of rumors surfaced on Apple's new music streaming service, thanks to an interesting discovery made on jailbroken iPads. (more…)

Nolan Bushnell, the American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the video game company Atari, spoke in front of an admiring audience at Campus Party Brasil, in which he talked about his former employee Steve Jobs, the late CEO and co-founder of Apple (via TNW). He also talked about his efforts in shaping the future of learning with his new game-based...

The Institute of Communication Agencies (ICA) and Ipsos Reid have released the results of their Most Influential Brands Study for Canada for 2012 at the ICA's fifth annual FFWD Advertising and Marketing Week. The top brand this year was Google, followed by Microsoft, then Apple in third spot. Below is a list of the top 10...

Popular social networking service Path, who allegedly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA) by collecting kids' personal information without their parents’ consent, has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreeing to pay a fine of $800,000 (via GigaOM). The company has also agreed to purge over 3,000 accounts from the network. FTC has settled...

Apple released iOS 6.1 to the public just a few days ago, on Monday, packing LTE support for new international LTE support and enhancing Siri, and it is already on the way to recording the fastest adoption rate ever. (more…)

In the battle for market share, Apple has surpassed Samsung, its biggest competitor in the US, driven by strong iPhone 5 sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from Strategy Analytics (Via The Next Web). (more…)

Today marks the beginning of a Netflix experiment as their $100 million investment into their original TV series House of Cards has finally made its much anticipated debut. As a remake of the original BBC series from the 1990s, this version stars Kevin Spacey with the series directed by David Fincher. The first episode will...

Bloomberg reports Apple is in talks with Time Warner to bring HBO Go to the Apple TV, possibly later this year: Apple Inc. is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for...

We have already seen mockups of what a larger 5-inch iPhone would look like, but now Instapaper founder Marco Arment throws his mockups into the mix, and envisions a 4.94-inch iPhone with 264PPI, in what has been rumoured as the "iPhone Plus" or "iPhone Math": The theory is easy to understand: perform John Gruber’s Mini-predicting...

Numerous reports this morning noted various Best Buy locations across Canada such as ones in Montreal and Victoria were mysteriously closed with security guards handing out pamphlets informing customers and staff of the closure. A Best Buy Canada spokesperson sent us the following statement on the status of their locations. The closures are the company's...

While speaking to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell called Apple the biggest threat to the success of Steam Box, Valve’s upcoming hardware capable of streaming games to multiple displays through local networks (via Polygon). Newell said that Apple "rolls the console guys really easily". The question is, can Valve make...

It's no secret that I'm a big Apple / iOS fan, and I've been pretty hard on RIM over the past few years. I used to be a BlackBerry believer, and in my day job I work with BlackBerry, BES5 and BES10 regularly. But, when the iPhone came along and Android matured into a usable...