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Earlier today Google announced Cloud Print Beta to print wirelessly from your iPhone for the US. Canadians, as always were shut out from the fun. But not with this next story. Google has just introduced interactive weather results on the iPhone when you search for the term "weather" on Google.com. We’d been wanting to build...

Update 1: In one minute, the number of followers grew from 3670 to 5309. That's about 1639 followers a minute, or over 98,000 in an hour if it stays at this pace. The App Store has just gone live--on twitter. It currently has 3670 followers. Expect that to grow exponentially as the day progresses. Just...

Google just announced on their Google Mobile Blog the beta release of Google Cloud Print Beta. This feature will allow iOS users to print emails and mobile docs from their smartphone. Today we are very pleased to announce the beta launch of Google Cloud Print for mobile documents and Gmail for mobile, which we will...

People always want to know more about Apple's executive time. We already know that Phil Schiller, Apple VP of Worldwide Marketing is on twitter. Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, is once again at the helm of Apple while Steve Jobs is on medical leave. Little light has been shed on Tim Cook but now...

On Thursday, January 13th, the developers of a Canadian mobile and Flash game studio, Halfbot, discovered that their soon to be released iOS game "The Blocks Cometh" had  been released on the App Store, but not by them. The Blocks Cometh was originally a Flash game that the developers were working on porting to the...

When Apple launched Ping, their social music network, people were interested for about one day. I checked out Ping and it was neat and all, but it's safe to say Ping failed--miserably. New evidence dug up by 9to5Mac indicates that Apple could be in the process of creating a new social network based on media...

Update 1: There's a now a video of gestures, via YouTube user antoninygaard. (via Engadget) Some more rumours are making the rounds regarding upcoming features for the iPhone. The latest images are from BGR, which indicate some leaked screens that indicate multitasking gestures could be coming our way. There were rumours that the Home button...

Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 4.3 to developers. Features include the WiFi hotspot, as advertised on the Verizon iPhone 4, and more should be revealed as developers open it up and take a look. If you are a developer wanting to test this firmware, the minimum system version required for iOS 4.3 development...

Currently the race to 10 billion iPhone app downloads will result in a winner of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Apple has also listed a page within iTunes that shows the all-time top free and paid iPhone apps. Preview of the Top Paid iPhone apps: Preview of the Top Free iPhone apps: Also listed on...

We all use apps on our iDevices and on our Mac computers, but something that many of us may not know (I sure didn't!) was that these icons hold deep and dark secrets! It is without a doubt that Apple makes great products, which includes the icons for their various applications. This week, Electricpig has...

This morning, an internal screen shot of Best Buy's (USA) inventory system has revealed spots for both the 16GB and 32GB white iPhone 4 models. The devices are further listed with expected in-stock dates of February 27, 2011. The SKU and model numbers associated with the entries are reportedly the same as to those used...

An interesting article from our friends at 9to5Mac surmising that with the purchase of Lala coupled with Apple's new North Carolina data centre facility, we could see our venerable iTunes replaced with Safari!? Say it isn't so! Then I got to thinking: iTunes is basically a browser now, a front-end for your iTunes library safely...