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By now, you must have seen tons of Siri related videos which can be found all over the web showing what can be achieved when Siri is combined with SiriProxy, for instance locking / unlocking and starting a car, fully controlling a television and even controlling third-party iOS apps. Now, this developer named Mark Hodder has combined SiriProxy with ioBridge, a small module...

If you're a frequent iTunes customer, here's a limited-time deal you cannot miss. You can buy an iTunes card for 25% off at Safeway. The offer is valid all across Canada. We're told that if you buy 2 of their 3 x $10 packs you get $15 off. This also beats Future Shop's deal who...

An iPhone gaming-themed music video by Australian indie-pop band Hey Geronimo has just gone viral. The song is called “Why Don’t We Do Something”, though it doesn't make much sense what the iPhone games have to do with the song. Nonetheless, the video is pretty special, a creation that portrays what the most popular iPhone games might look like...

Stephen Colbert has found yet another reason to love Siri. With the recent kerfuffle over Siri’s inability to locate abortion clinics in New York City, and directing similar request in Washington, D.C. to anti-abortion centers, Colbert is using the opportunity to have some fun with Siri. (Note: Apple quickly responded to the New York Times, attributing the poor search results...

Earlier this week Bing posted their search data trends for 2011. Today Yahoo! Canada released their much-anticipated Year in Review. Based on aggregated visitor activity, Yahoo! Canada’s 2011 Year in Review editors sifted through billions of searches to uncover search trends. And, the most popular News search term in Canada was – "Apple." It's been a big year for Apple, from...

According to Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, there is a large surveillance industry that has increasingly gotten larger since the attacks of 9/11. Speaking at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at the City University of London, Assange said the following: “Who here has an iPhone? Who here has a Blackberry? Who here uses Gmail? Well, you’re all...

A recent report published by Global StatCounter (via 9to5Mac) suggests that even though Google's Android OS has been showing rapid growth since the beginning of this year overtaking BlackBerry and even surpassing iOS in August (though only for the remainder of that month), it hasn't been able to catch up with the growing popularity of iOS. The statistics...

Health Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Best Buy have issued a recall on Rocketfish iPhone battery packs as they pose a fire hazard. Sold at both Best Buy and Future Shop from April 2010 to September 2011, there have been instances of the cases overheating during charging in the U.S., but not...

Apple is looking to get into the business of unique device identification, Patently Apple reports, filing a patent that details plans for a "digital handshake" capable of transferring data between nearby devices. The patent application, published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today, preposes using a camera that could identify barcodes or invisible ink that would allow devices to recognize...

Last week Samsung posted a series of commercials (see here and here) that pokes fun at iPhone owners. Today they're continuing the campaign on their US Facebook page with a series of graphics that suggests the iPhone is dated and uncool. Samsung clearly wants their message to go viral. One graphic illustrates a comparison between “Cutting edge” (their Galaxy S II) and...

Apple has issued a statement over Carrier IQ, and in a note to AllThingsD, they mentioned Carrier IQ was removed from iOS 5: “We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must...

References of 'Carrier IQ', the infamous spware, have just been found in Apple's iOS. For those who aren't aware, 'Carrier IQ' is the rootkit that Carriers put on many of their phones to monitor customer usage.  As previously discovered by a security researcher, 'Carrier IQ' monitors keystrokes and sends them back to its own servers. Luckily...