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As we reported two weeks ago, SaskTel and MTS confirmed they would offer the iPhone 4S on October 28th, two weeks after the official launch. SaskTel's website shows the 16GB and 32GB models are available at the regular carrier subsidized prices of $159.99 and $269.99. The 64GB model currently is not available and is listed...

If you haven't figured it out already, iOS 5 enables native support for the Emoji keyboard (instead of previously downloading an app, or installing a tweak from Cydia), to allow users access to the plethora of neat little emoticons. To do so, just go to: General-->International-->Keyboards-->Add New Keyboard-->Emoji After you've added the Emoji keyboard, or...

If you haven't already purchased the Steve Jobs biography from the iBookstore or Amazon.ca, you can get a fantastic deal from Costco for $21.97. This is much cheaper than the Canadian cover price of $37.00, and beats the Amazon.ca price of $23. The Steve Jobs biography was released on Monday (and earlier at some outlets...

Last month we told you Adobe was developing Carousel, a perfect Lightroom alternative for iOS devices which would allow users to access their entire photo library on any iPhone, iPod, iPad or a Mac computer with seamless photo syncing across all these devices. Today, the company has released native iOS and Mac clients for Carousel which can be downloaded for...

A handful of hypothetical stories have been published all over the web regarding why Steve Job's car did not have a license plate. But iTWire claims to have finally uncovered the truth. In a one hour encounter with CTO of Entrust Jon Callas, who has also worked at Apple in the past as a senior security officer,...

In a recent article published in Fortune, Steve Jobs' chronicler Brent Schlender has published several personal stories from 25 years of covering Apple and its late co-founder, offering a unique look at how Steve Jobs interacted with the media. The article tells stories Schlender says he "was never able to tell, either because they would...

Perhaps you’ve heard: There’s a new Steve Jobs biography out. Last night, Walter Isaacson sat down with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show to talk about his new book, “Steve Jobs”. It’s an entertaining interview, touching on Jobs’s ‘Zen Stare’, the role of coincidence in the Apple co-founder’s life, and a dig at Microsoft: “One...

PBS is set to air a documentary titled 'Steve Jobs--One More Thing' on Wednesday, November 2nd at 10PM-11PM EDT (7PM-8PM PDT). The documentary will feature never seen before footage of Steve Jobs from an interview that took place with PBS in 1994: In a never-before-broadcast interview from 1994, Jobs expounds on his philosophy of life:...

Last week, one of our readers pointed out Canadian Apple Stores offering 'Reserve and Pick up" service for the iPhone 4S in which customers would just select their province, Apple store location, and choose an available model for in-store pick up. Today, Apple has taken this one step further by debuting its "Ship To Store" service in USA,...

Apple recently beat Nokia to become the world's largest smartphone maker, a company that led the global smartphone market for so many years. Today, Nokia has launched its brand new handset called the Lumia 800, supposedly targeting the iPhone's worldwide market dominance. It is also Nokia’s first smartphone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. As suggested...

Apple has started working on a solar farm adjacent to its massive new data center in North Carolina, according to a report by The Charlotte Observer (via Gigaom). Dubbed as Project Dolphin Solar Farm, the solar project will be built on 171 acres of land across the street from Apple’s planned $1 billion data center. It was previously...

This morning The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patent number 7657849 which grants Apple the rights to the familiar Slide to Unlock gesture. The unlock gesture has become synonymous with iOS devices, and now, any company that uses a gesture that’s similar will have to pay royalties, or be charged with patent...