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Angry Birds Landing on Facebook this February 14th
Rovio has announced you'll soon be able to play Angry Birds--on Facebook. The launch is set to take place on Valentine's Day, and will offer fans another way to stay addicted to the game. Squawk! Everyone's favorite furious fowl, Angry Birds, is coming to Facebook! Nothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like competitive pig-popping among friends!...
Apple Online Store Launches Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Apple has launched their Valentine's Day Gift Guide on their website, and it showcases a wide variety of products set to make your sweetheart love you even more on February 14th. The perfect gifts for your perfect match. Shop our handpicked collection of iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Mac gifts for Valentine’s Day. We’ll deliver them...
Apple Town Hall Meeting Nets Employees $500 Off Macs and $250 off iPads
The same day Apple announced its historic $46 billion dollar quarter, Tim Cook reportedly fired off an email to employees to announce an Apple Town Hall meeting for the next day. As for those 'exciting new things' Cook wanted to talk about? Well, we now know according to 9to5Mac: Cook announced that Apple employees will...
Motorola’s Action Against iPhone 4S And iCloud Approved By Google
Apple finds itself under legal attack from Motorola again, this time over patents related to the iPhone 4S and iCloud. FOSS Patents today is reporting that Motorola would have liked to have added these new assertions of patent infringement to an existing action which it started in 2010 but, apparently that case is already too...
iPhone Sales Growing Faster Than Earth’s Population
Today, Michael Babad of The Globe And Mail pointed out some interesting facts revolving around yesterday’s 2012 Q1 announcement from Apple. It turns out that revenue in the quarter jumped from $26.74 billion to 46.33 billion during the quarter, which includes impressive holiday sales numbers. Apple Inc. sold 5.2 million Macs and 67.87 million iOS...
Halifax Apple Store Construction Progress Update [PICS]
More Canadian Apple retail store updates are here (earlier we learned the London Apple Store had been confirmed via job postings), and this time it is for the all but confirmed location set inside the Halifax Shopping Centre in Nova Scotia. Earlier this month it was reported by numerous sources the store was definitely coming,...
Apple Store in London Ontario Confirmed by Online Job Postings
In late December it was noted that London, Ontario was rumoured to receive an Apple Store in the upper level of Masonville Place Mall. Well, those rumours can now be laid to rest as Apple has posted job listings for the London store on its website, as seen below: The postings were listed on January...
iPhone 5 with 4-Inch Display Set to Launch This Summer? [Rumour]
Update 1: John Gruber disagrees with Seth W. from 9to5Mac and says the next iPhone is not underway, and calls the claim of a bigger size 'bullshit'. Next generation iPhone 5 rumours already? You better believe it because 9to5Mac claims a reliable source from Foxconn has provided them with the following information: 4+ inch display (made...
Apple Secrets Revealed in Book Release of ‘Inside Apple’
Fortune Senior Editor Adam Lashinsky's book, Inside Apple, is now available for download. We've seen numerous excerpts released from the book on the web that details how Apple 'really works'. Examples include how Scott Forstall is seen as the 'next' CEO-in-waiting, and also how Apple maintains its secrecy within. Here's the book description: INSIDE APPLE...
Bill Gates Shares His Relationship & Last Meeting With Steve Jobs [VIDEO]
Walter Isaacson quoted Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates in the official Steve Jobs biography as claiming Jobs “said a lot of very nice things about me,” while noting that he also said “a lot of tough things". In a recent interview with Yahoo! and ABC News (via 9to5Mac), Gates shared his final conversation with Steve Jobs and how his passing affected him. Interestingly,...
iPhoneinCanada.ca Wins the 2011 Canadian Blog Award for ‘Best Tech Blog’
Just a quick update for those wondering--you helped us win the 2011 Canadian Blog Award in the category for 'Best Science and Technology Blog'. Even though we posted about the final voting period two weeks after it started, the power of the iPhoneinCanada.ca community pulled through. The first round of voting took place last November,...
Tim Cook to ‘Discuss Some Exciting New Things’ at Apple Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow
Apple today announced some historic numbers as it generated a $46 billion dollar quarter and sold 37 million iPhones. The total cash on hand sits at $97.6 billion, with no specific direction in what to do with it all. Can we expect to hear more good things from Apple? Well, according to a purported email...