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Apple offered free shipping today only on all products purchased from Apple.ca as part of Cyber Monday. They weren't finished with giving though as now iOS 5.1 beta is now available to developers. Build number 9B5117b comes in at an 800MB download for the iPhone 4S. Apple previously noted they are still working on crushing...

BGR points to a press release from Australian airline Regional Express describing an incident where an iPhone self combusted onboard an aircraft just after landing. Regional Express (Rex) flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney today had an occurrence after landing, when a passenger’s mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied...

Bing has released its search data trends for 2011, and among the results come specific terms that dominated Canada. The most popular search term for consumer electronics in Canada was--the mythical 'iPhone 5' which turned out to become the iPhone 4S. Top Consumer Electronics In the U.S., the 'iPhone 5' ranked in the fourth spot,...

The 2011 Canadian Blog Awards have started their voting round (actually 2 weeks ago) and we at iPhoneinCanada.ca are humbled to have been nominated into the "Best Sci/Tech Blog" category. If you enjoy reading iPhoneinCanada.ca and love what we do here, we'd appreciate your support by voting below. Help us make it into the final...

If you need to buy some gifts for Christmas from Apple.ca, do it online today as free shipping is on everything. Normally, free shipping is only for orders of $75 or more via standard shipping (meaning your order will arrive within 8 business days). Whether you order via the web, or the Apple Store app,...

When Siri Proxy is combined with Apple's iPhone 4S exclusive digital voice assistant aka Siri, the possibilities become endless. We've already seen Siri being used to lock / unlock and even start a car as well as to fully control a television. Similarly, Siri controlled apps for iPhone and iPad have recently appeared on the App...

A Japanese Mac blog, Macotakara (via Apple Insider), is claiming that Sony Mobile Display Corporation and Hitachi Displays have begun shipping 4-inch displays for a new iOS device. Though the blog doesn’t elaborate which device the new displays will be used for, but the obvious choice seems to be the redesigned iPhone 5 which is strongly rumored to...

We've seen some creative uses of Siri, such as being setup to control a car remotely. Now, a developer has used Siri Proxy to control his Plex Media player on his Apple TV. What is Siri Proxy? Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple's Siri "assistant." The idea is to allow for the creation...

A couple days ago we posted about the comments made by a Microsoft executive that Apple's voice offering in Siri is 'nothing special', and that it comes down to 'good marketing': People are infatuated with Apple announcing it. It’s good marketing, but at least as the technological capability you could argue that Microsoft has had...

FastPdfKit Reader is a free iPhone / iPad app available on the App Store downloadable as a universal binary which allows users to grab pdf from any source with standard rss feed. Today, the developers of the app have added support for Siri using Siri Proxy, a proxy server developed by hackers for Apple’s Siri assistant and have published a...

While we've already put up a comprehensive round-up of 2011 Black Friday sales online for you, an interesting infographic developed by research company Mashwork (via Mashable) shows some of the hottest products and shops this Black Friday. The research analysts monitored over 270,000 tweets between Sept. 26, 2011 and Nov. 17, 2011 and found out where shoppers will be...

A study conducted by research firm GfK (via Reuters) involving 4,500 smartphone users in different regions of the world has revealed that iPhone owners are the most loyal to their smartphone brand among them all. The report claims that 84% of current iPhone owners plan to purchase another iPhone as their next handset while 60% of Android...