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The iPhone has hundreds of thousands of apps that teach, entertain, and amuse. This week, LifetoneTechnology is demonstrating iPhonECG, a system that turns your iPhone 4 into a Electrocardiography monitor (ECG). Before even continuing on, there's something profound about being able to use your iPhone 4, basically a cell phone, to monitor your heart rate....

This week, CBC has a new story about the iPhone and the lives of two BC snowboarders. A pair of snowboarders were rescued off of Cypress Mountain and are crediting an iPhone with saving their lives. The pair used an iPhone to both call for help and to provide their exact location to rescue teams...

The iPhone Dev Team has been hard at work, trying to give us an untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. There have been many hurdles, but it sounds like we're getting closer. The iPhone Dev Team posted another beta of Redsn0w 0.9.7. Beta 4 gets rid of the "usbmux" step that was required in earlier betas....

Okay. **sighs** I know this rumour has been going around for ever and ever, and frankly I have always thought of this as wishful thinking, from AT&T users. This is not really a big deal to us Canadians, but over the past few months, there has been more and more speculation that Apple will indeed...

This week, CNN has put together a list of their ten biggest tech "fails" of 2010. The list highlights technology and Internet products that failed during 2010. As you could have guessed, CNN ranked the iPhone 4's antenna problems (or Antennagate) as the top tech fail for 2010. This is also rather surprising given the...

When the new iPod Nano was announced, earlier this year, There was speculation that the new touch screen iPod Nano would be running some form of iOS and that it might be able to be jailbroken. Once it was in people's hands it was quickly determined that, it does not run iOS, but just a...

In 2007, RIM, makers of the Blackberry, reportedly had an internal panic when Apple released the first iPhone. The story comes from a former RIM employee. Apparently RIM held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying about the capabilities of the new device. The claims focused on how it was...

The iPhone Dev Team have been teasing an untethered jailbreak for the newest iDevices on iOS 4.2.1, for a while now. The rumour was that Christmas weekend would be the release date. Well, they came really close, and released a beta of Redsn0w to beta tester who have a Mac, and were willing to possibly mess...

Well, leave it to Apple to help protect our kids! Apple has purportedly patented software to identify inappropriate language in text messages and to either completely delete it or to replace with "age appropriate" verbiage. I suspect a database of offending words can be input into the phone by a parent and text message content...

Today, DigiTimes is reporting that Apple has increased their Q1 2011 iPhone shipment target from 19 million units to 20 - 21 million units. The rumor mill indicates that at least 25% of these shipments are CDMA iPhones. A CDMA iPhone would likely be headed to carriers such as Verizon in the USA and even...

Earlier today, Apple updated its investor relations web page to announce that the company will publish its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2011. The announcement will follow a standard earnings conference call scheduled for Tuesday January 18, 2011. Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its first fiscal...

My mother in law just had a milestone birthday and for her present we got her the latest iPod touch. She has been delighted with the simplicity of the device, and it's been a lot of fun showing her the elegance of iOS 4. When we tried to FaceTime my iPhone 4, we got the...