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When you're the world's largest company by stock valuation and a smartphone leader, everyone wants to take you down. We've seen it from Samsung and now Nokia has thrown their hat into the ring. Their latest commercial depicts animated dark characters lining up for the iPhone 5, but only come to life when they get...

Interbrand has released their annual report on best global brands and Apple has become the fastest growing brand with growth of 129% compared to a year ago. The company sits in second place just behind number one, Coca-Cola. Here's the Interbrand report on Apple: Apple (+129%): Despite Steve Jobs’ passing, consumers’ emotional connection to the...

After hearing about our U.S. neighbours on Verizon being affected by the iOS 6 glitch where cellular data is used when connected to Wi-Fi, it appears Canadian wireless customers are also affected, such as those on Rogers and Fido. We asked you on Twitter if you were being affected by this bug last night, and...

As noted by FOSS Patents, Samsung has filed a lawsuit against the iPhone 5 by adding it to list of devices alleged to infringe on 8 Samsung patents, part of an existing claim against Apple being held in the San Jose federal court: Samsung seeks an order granting it leave to amend its infringement contentions...

The Globe and Mail reports the CRTC is ready to crack down on 'iCrime', the increasingly alarming rate at which smartphones such as the iPhone are brazenly stolen by thieves. How so? It wants our wireless carriers to setup a national registry to track stolen devices such as iPhones or iPads or other smartphones. If...

Last month it was noted Apple's social music network, Ping, was set to end on September 30th. Well, that day has come and gone. The social network was launched by the late Steve Jobs back in 2010 and managed to register 1 million users in 48 hours, but there was no real interest soon afterwards....

Apple has announced October 25th as the date for its 2012 Q4 conference call, set to take place at the regular time of 2PM PST: Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its fourth fiscal quarter on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. During...

The iPhone 5 speaker was noted by Apple to have been improved and after various real-world situation tests, it is indeed true. Using the iPhone 5 on speakerphone is louder and improved compared to the iPhone 4S and previous generations. iClarified has put together a video comparing the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 4S, iPhone...

Apple noted the MobileMe changeover to iCloud would result in a free 20GB of storage space to go along with the complimentary 5GB. Now, many users are seeing iCloud storage expiration dates of 2050 in their accounts. You can check your iCloud storage expiration date by going to Settings-->iCloud-->Account. Here's a screenshot of the 2050...

Apple decided to pull the original Google Maps app from iOS devices starting with iOS 6 in order to introduce its own Maps application. However, majority of us would give anything to get it back as the default maps application for iOS. While a standalone app for Google Maps still hasn't made it to the App Store, a...

In other mapping-related news, Apple has modified their description of Apple Maps on iOS on their website. The claim of the "most powerful mapping service ever" has been removed from the description (via Labnol). Check it out the old text below: ...and the new change below: Apple had a gargantuan task of replacing Google Maps,...

The New York Times reports on Apple's misstep with their new Maps app, and within the article it is revealed the original iPhone was never designed to ship with a mapping app. It was only added a few weeks before the unveiling, as ordered by then CEO Steve Jobs: Including a maps app on the...