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According to a report by the Globe and Mail, Rogers looks to possibly bid on NHL rights away from the CBC, thus putting the Hockey Night in Canada franchise in jeopardy. The CBC/NHL contract is due to expire in 2015, and if Rogers is successful it would mean the first time Saturday night hockey would...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has long supported the jailbreak community, and now they are openly calling on Apple to free up their iOS devices, in what they refer to as Apple's 'beautiful crystal prisons': Apple's recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed...

Telus Health has partnered with Sanofi Canada to launch a platform called STARsystem for diabetics in Canada using the iBGStar iPhone blood glucose monitors (announced in April): TELUS Health has partnered with Sanofi Canada to launch STARsystem, an innovative private web-based platform that gives diabetics free anywhere, anytime access to personalized education and self-management health tools....

Patently Apple is reporting that Apple has been granted 27 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office which include a wide array of design wins for Apple TV, iOS layout for iPad, iPad packaging and a possible new icon. The most interesting of them all is the one that relates to cameras and more particularly to determining exposure...

Developed by Tony Fadell, former Apple hardware designer who led the creation of may generations of iPods and iPhones, Nest Learning Thermostat is the world's first commercially available learning thermostat that can help save up to 20% percent on home heating and cooling bills by automatically turning itself down when you're away, is now shipping to Canada....

Earlier this month, we reported that Apple might drop Google Maps services in iOS 6 and instead use its own in-house mapping service that also includes a 3D view. Looks like BGR has just obtained some exclusive information and photos of Apple’s new Maps app from its trusted sources. The source notes that this new Maps app features an all...

A new report by 9to5Mac notes that folks at popular iPhone repair firm iFixyouri, have got their hands on a purported iPhone 5 rear shell along with its sides. The source believes it could either be a part from the next generation iPhone or from one of its prototypes, and is made of an aluminum alloy with an...

For all the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fans out there, you'll be pleased to know Netflix has announced an expansion of content to its Canadian library. Recent and classic UFC events, highlights series, and the reality show "The Ultimate Fighter" will be available along with fights featuring Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones and Canadians...

Here's Monday evening headline, courtesy of the Toronto Star: "Man strikes nun with car then has iPhone stolen" …and here's the story: A nun on her way to Sunday mass was injured when her car was hit by a vehicle that drove through a red light. The collision happened at about 6 a.m. at Keele...

Apple is the world's only company to pivot from computer maker to device maker. With its annual new product releases being the most highly anticipated in the world, the company is looking to become the world's first trillion dollar company in near future. But how do Apple's eye-popping statistics translate to the real world? To give you an...

Despite the fact that Foxconn CEO officially denied in a written statement any involvement of Taiwanese manufacturer in the production of an Apple branded television set, a new report by Chinese news portal Sina (via The Next Web) is suggesting that Foxconn has received new orders to begin trial production of the product. While the report does not share much details, it...

The New York Times has an apparent scoop in regards to Facebook's plans to release a smartphone in the future. The kicker? The social network has hired former Apple software and hardware engineers to make it happen: Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people...