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Concur has released some interesting Canadian mobile stats, based on a survey of over 1000 business travellers in November 2011: Mobile device and app usage · Nearly three quarters (74%) use laptops more than once a day · More than two thirds (64%) use smartphones more than once a day and 45% use them hourly ·...

BundleHunt.com is back, and this time around they have launched their much-anticipated 'Mega Holiday Bundle'. Users will get 12 Mac apps and tools, a total value of $1100, but on sale for 95% off at just $49.99. They're also giving away two 16GB iPad 2s to people who purchase the bundle, plus every person who...

The BBC Worldwide has officially announced the launch date of iPhone and iPod touch versions of their Global iPlayer, set to debut December 8th in Canada, as part of its pilot trial. The iPad-exclusive app launched in Canada five days ago, with a $8.99 CDN monthly subscription price (or $84.99 annually), which we have reviewed....

Image via i-kreate Near the end of the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson explains what Jobs details to him about his vision for a television set: "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," he told me. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and...

Electronic Arts (EA) has a 100 games listed in the iTunes Store that range from console to iOS ports (FIFA, NBA JAM) as well as exclusive iOS content (Max & the Magic Marker, Fantasy Safari). Today EA has created a Daily Deals page that highlights many of their most popular games by offering deep discounts. Updated daily, the site will feature...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in Bangalore last week to give a talk to up-and-coming entrepreneurs about Apple. While there, he gave a great interview to Indian television program Sunday MIDDAY. As always, everyone’s favorite geek had interesting thoughts to share, particularly on the state of todays mobile industry. Woz likened today’s competing smartphones (read as Android, Blackberry,...

It appears iOS 5.0.1 has some WiFi issues for some people. I have received a few emails about this and I've experienced it lately on my own iPhone 4S. All signs point to being connected to WiFi, but no data is being transferred. At first I thought I was going crazy. A reset of network...

The ongoing series of patent wars between two of the world's biggest technology giants, Apple and Samsung first began with Apple having alleged that Samsung Galaxy’s smartphones and Tablets infringed its design patents. Among the ten countries in which Apple had initially filed suits against Samsung, it won in Germany and Netherlands. Moving on to Australia, Apple succeeded in banning Samsung’s Tablet...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has launched a unique online Steve Jobs exhibit today which showcases the life and times of Apple co-founder, but with a twist. The exhibit is called Steve Jobs: First, Last, One more thing... and can be accessed here featuring objects from the permanent collection of the CHM which holds over 100,000 artifacts including 3,000 Apple-related items. The...

Apple has had a handful of patent-violation lawsuits in recent months which made one thing pretty clear to us that Cupertino's patent policy is very territorial. However, a recent article by The Verge points out a totally different scenario. It seems that Apple has in fact licensed its iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, especially...

The handy SHSH blobs extraction tool a.k.a TinyUmbrella has just been updated to version 5.1.00 which adds iOS 5.1 beta 1 support. The latest release of TinyUmbrella is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Until now, there is no way to downgrade back to an iOS 5.x firmware even...

Developer Steve Stroughton-Smith has revealed Apple's code names for iOS firmware all the way back from iPhone OS 1.0. The code names are from the book iOS Forensic Analysis: 1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly) 1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest) 2.0: Big Bear 2.1: Sugarbowl 2.2: Timberline 3.0: Kirkwood 3.1: Northstar 3.2: Wildcat...