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In the wake of a disappointing product launch, Jawbone has gone back to the drawing board with their UP wristband. This was their beautifully designed bracelet meant to be worn at all times to help track your sleep and your daily activity. Sadly, many users reported issues with synchronization and monitoring prompting an apology from...

Yesterday, Patently Apple released an extensive look at the patents that have been published revolving around Siri, the most exciting feature from the iPhone 4S. The patents that Apple has filed make it clear that they have every intention to embed Siri into many more of their products including a rumoured yet to be released HDTV....

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.3 with support for the new iBooks 2 app allowing iOS users to sync their textbook purchases as well as support for the updated iTunes U program. The new version of iTunes is available for Mac OS (102.15MB) and Windows (66.11MB -32Bit , 67.98MB-64Bit) from Apple's website. Read the full release notes after the break. What’s new...

Apple has posted their Education Media Event stream online that announced iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. Watch the first Apple media event since Steve Jobs' passing. Click here to watch it or download the HD event in iTunes.

Today Apple made some major education announcements with the release of iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. Everything sounds fine and dandy until you realize the Canadian iBookstore does not have the 'Textbook' category. Either the category is coming soon in a magical update, or it's not coming at all. You're probably thinking "oh...

[Refresh your browser periodically to update] 7:00am: Phill Schiller takes the stage, “We’re proud to help students learn”…and “Students are being introducd to the iPad” 7:03am "I get discouraged when students don't graduate... knowing that we failed them." 7:06am "There is a lot that's talked about that might be wrong in education, and no one person or company can...

A team of Canadian university researchers want your text messages to add to their pool of research. The project 'text4science' is a collaboration between Simon Fraser University, University of Ottawa, and the Universite de Montreal. The project itself is part of the international 'sms4science' project coordinated at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. What...

Toronto lawyer Michael Deverett purchased a MacBook Pro and iPod touch back in 2009. As he returned to his vehicle after stopping at a convenience store, his rear window had been smashed and his Apple goodies stolen. As the Toronto Star reports, Deverett ended up suing Apple: Deverett sued Apple, claiming that theft rings in...

The book 'Inside Apple' is set to hit bookstores soon, written by Fortune senior editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky (you can check out his Fortune issue Inside Apple here). Yesterday, we learned about how Scott Forstall is seen as the next 'CEO-in-waiting' at Apple. Today, a lengthier excerpt has been posted to promote the book. It's a...

In the past, we’ve had a look at both the Kudos Payments and the Payfirma mobile payment systems. Today though, a heavy hitter enters the ring, calling itself PAYD. PAYD makes a pretty strong case to start accepting credit cards on your iPhone (or BlackBerry or Android… if you’re into that). The service offers the...

Our recent story about Lisa Bettany's trip around the world with an iPhone 4S had me investigating the usage of iPhone cameras on Flickr, which has been documented before. We've seen the popular rise of iPhone cameras, but what about the total number of images uploaded to Flickr by all iOS devices? The grand total...

One of the founders of tap tap tap's popular Camera+ app (which recently surpassed 6 million downloads) is Lisa Bettany, a local resident of BC's West Coast. Her role in the creation of Camera+ has been previously documented by Entrepreneur, but now she has a new journey ahead of her--a trip around the world armed only...