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Update 1: It also appears Apple has had their sights on this location since last November, as noted by The Chronicle Herald. Their interview with the mall's marketing director resulted in Apple-like secrecy. She refused to divulge the genre of the store or whether the new tenant had an existing American or Canadian or local presence. What was revealed...

Flurry, the world’s leading mobile application analytics platform, has released their holiday season app store download data with some interesting revelations. Flurry finds that the last week of 2011 saw 20 million iOS and Android activations and 1.2 billion applications downloaded over what’s being dubbed the holiday “power week.” That number represents a %60 increase...

Today Netflix announced in a press release it delivered more than 2 billion hours of content watched by 20 million members across 45 countries in the fourth quarter. Netflix Canada recently surpassed 1 million subscribers. Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings: "Netflix delights members by giving them choice, convenience and control over the entertainment they...

Back in September, Instagram hit their 10 Millionth user. Yesterday, the popular app had another important user milestone; the President of The United States. Instagram is a photo sharing app that allows you to edit and upload your photos and then interact with other users in many of the same ways Twitter does. The differences...

USA Today reports on increasing rumours of an upcoming Apple 'iTV', alluding to the possibility of something appearing at upcoming CES, which was rumoured before. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak chimed in about a possible TV: "I do expect Apple to make an attempt...since I expect the living room to remain a center for family...

Forbes contributor Caleb Melby and JESS3 CEO Jesse Thomas launched their much anticipated illustrated novel, The Zen of Steve Jobs last month. The comic book takes a closer look at the relationship Steve Jobs had with the Zen Buddhist, Kobun Chino Otogawa, with a mixture of fact and fiction: Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who...

We're onto Day 10 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas and today's offering is the game Hell's Kitchen, starring the short tempered chef, Gordon Ramsay. Here's the iTunes description: You and a friend can experience the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere simultaneously! Now blue-tooth enabled, battle head to head in an arcade style kitchen challenge! Hell’s...

Jeff Broderick previously released those beautiful easy to save iOS shortcuts for iOS 5.0, and now he's back with another cool tweak. Called QuickWiFi, it allows you to easily share your network credentials by providing visitors with a verified WiFi profile to install on their iOS devices or Mac. All you have to do is...

With rumours swirling regarding Apple's upcoming media event this month in New York City, further information has surfaced about what could be detailed at this event by Clayton Morris from Fox News: This event will focus on iTunes University and Apple in education I learned of the event back in September when it was originally scheduled for...

Day 9 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas has arrived, and after today there's only three days left to go. Today's freebie consists of four singles from the Vancouver punk-pop band, Hedley. Here are the songs available plus a video: Gunnin' For the Nights I Can't Remember Perfect Beautiful Video: Perfect   The runner...

2011 was not a kind year for Canada's tech prodigy, Research in Motion. RIM's Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis doubted the iPhone when it launched in 2007. They made claims about how we don't need apps for the web and blamed iPhone data demands for network congestion. RIM couldn't even setup the App World...

Is the Nokia Lumia 800 ready to turn the company around? This latest device from Nokia runs Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and was recently put to a browser showdown with the iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0) and iPhone 4 (on iOS 4.3). The following video, posted by YouTube user 359gsm, puts all three phones through a...