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Apple has been hugely successful with their iPhone and iPad sales, but their advertising platform iAds has failed to make a dent in the industry. Introduced by Steve Jobs last year as part of iOS 4.0, iAds had it rates cut in half back in February of this year, and now according to Bloomberg they've...

Tiny Words, released earlier this month by developer Codespin Inc., is a fast-paced word puzzle game that challenges your word knowledge and quick reflexes. The objective is, while racing against the clock, for players to use four letters to create as many four-letter words as they can. The more words you can create, the higher...

The latest iPhone 5 rumours from the WSJ mention a new iPhone this Fall that will be thinner and lighter, and possibly bring a cheaper model with an edge to edge screen. This is My Next originally brought up the story of a redesigned iPhone with a teardrop design, and larger screen. This time around,...

With iPhone 5 rumours flying fast and furious thanks to the WSJ's jump into the foray, it appears the next iPhone will be based on a thinner design, and possibly a larger screen. We've seen some different iPhone 5 concepts in the past with some good and some bad, but here are the latest ones...

With JailbreakMe.com utilizing the PDF exploit to allow over 1 million users jailbreak their iOS devices, Apple has officially spoke on the record an update is coming to fix this security hole. It was already hinted this would be coming, the moment JailbreakMe.com 3.0 was leaked. Here's what Apple told the Associated Press: Apple Inc....

Do you use mobile banking on your iPhone? The 2011 "Mobile Money & Banking Report", a study from Solutions Research Group based in Toronto found 54% of all iPhone users in Canada use a banking app. The study found 2.5 million Canadians have widely adopted mobile banking apps on their smartphones, a number that was...

Earlier today the Wall Street Journal's well-informed Yukari Iwatani Kane reported Apple is preparing a new iPhone for the third quarter that will be 'thinner and lighter', with an estimated 25 million units shipped as part of target estimates (read here on how Apple masters its supply chain via its billions in cash). As with...

Apple recently spent $2 billion dollars to purchase Nortel's LTE patents, as part of a consortium that spent over $4.5 billion to acquire the former Canadian telecom's valuable mobile-related patents. These windfall patent sales are now faced with a possible federal review, to see if the deals bring a 'net benefit' to Canadians. Christian Paradis,...

July 12, 2011 Update: I bought AppleCare for iPhone. My first warranty ever. As the typical June/July release window for new iPhones begins to pass, and rumours strongly suggest that the next generation iPhone is due this fall 2011, my mind has been preoccupied with the idea of AppleCare for iPhone. Warranties Let me just...

In what seems rather obvious at this point, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is preparing a new iPhone for a third quarter launch this year. Initial production targets are estimated at 25 million devices. The WSJ sources further reveal that the next generation iPhone will be "thinner and lighter". This counters most recent...

Another brilliant comic from The Joy of Tech. I'd buy an Orange iPhone 5--wouldn't you? 15 million orders for the iPhone 5 have apparently been placed, and Apple continues to leverage its billions in cash to stay head of the competition. September can't come any sooner. [Joy of Tech]

It was announced in April an official Steve Jobs biography would be released in 2012. The biography is to be written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon & Schuster. The latter decided to go with the title "iSteve: The Book of Jobs"--turns out that isn't going to fly anymore. According to Fortune, the publicity...