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The latest report regarding Foxconn was their intention to employ 1 million robot workers to replace humans for certain tasks within their factories. The Taiwanese company helps supply Apple with their popular iPhone and iPad devices. NMA.TV has animated a video with their impression of how the whole takeover will go down. NMA.TV is notorious...

Does Apple have plans to launch an actual streaming service to showcase their content from iTunes? The answer is yes, according to sources AppAdvice spoke to. Just the other day Apple TV users in the US received iCloud capabilities for their previously purchased TV shows. Now, it appears Apple is set to launch a new...

In March, Apple began airing new "What makes an iPhone" TV ads. At the time, Apple posted three iPhone advertisements focusing on users who do not currently have an iPhone. The ads began with the phrase "if you don't have an iPhone" and then demonstrated features found on the iPhone such as the App Store,...

Jan-Michael Cart has just released another one of his beautiful iOS 5 concept videos. The latest video demonstrates improvements to Notification Center and introduces the 'Persistent Badge', a way of alerting users via tiny badges in the status bar. Also, there's other improvements to Widgets, collapsable notifications, and incoming calls as notifications. It's a nice...

According to Digitimes, Pegatron Technology will ship the iPhone 5 in September. The company has landed orders for 10 million units, according to sources. Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 10 million units of iPhone 5 to become the second ODM of the smartphone. Shipments will start in September The report goes on to mention...

Data only plans seem pretty hard to come by in Canada, but that is going to change soon. According to MobileSyrup, sources tell them Telus' discount brand, Koodo Mobile is set to offer data only plans 'in the future', with no requirement for voice or text plans. No prices were revealed, but given the fact...

More iPhone 5 rumours coming your way, this time via the Guardian. According to their sources carriers are already testing iPhone 5 units in locked and sealed boxes: my carrier sources tell me that the boxes in which the new iPhone hardware is encased have been transported to carriers for testing. This is an important...

More iPhone 5 predictions are coming from analysts, this time via RBC Capital Markets and Sterne Agree. Larger Display, Bigger Update Than Expected? According to Shawn Wu from Sterne Agree, he notes to Business Insider the next iPhone will have a larger display, a similar form factor, but with a thinner bezel. Also, the refresh...

Update: Inserted below is a screenshot of the Telus roadmap for smartphones, that includes the iPhone 5. More iPhone 5 rumours are here, and this time they're Canadian-specific. BGR is reporting the next-generation iPhone 5 will launch on October 1st, according to a 'reliable' source from Telus: We have seen seen an internal Telus document...

On top of the announcement of Apple's iCloud storage pricing scheme, they also unveiled iCloud.com Beta to the world. Once users log in here, they'll have access to Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find My iPhone, and iWork. Reports in late April mentioned Apple had acquired iCloud.com. After logging in with your Apple ID, iCloud.com resembles an...

This afternoon, Apple has unveiled its pricing for iCloud storage, as noted by 9to5Mac. For iOS 5 beta testers, if you navigate within iCloud settings to "Buy More Storage", it will reveal the Canadian pricing scheme: 5 GB - Free Upgrade options (adds to your 5GB): 10GB - $20/year (15GB total) 20GB - $40/year (25GB...

Some more iPhone 5 rumours are coming your way, this time via John Paczkowski from AllThingsD. According to his sources, the iPhone 5 will be an 'October surprise' rather than be announced in September. His source refutes recent reports AT&T employees in the US received blacked out vacation periods during the end of September: “I...