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We all know that Apple holds its secrets tight to the chest when it comes to future products in their pipeline. Apple spent years working in secret on the original iPhone, and the iPad was also a surprise to many. A recent insider-trading lawsuit revealed some details about the lengths Cupertino and Steve Jobs will...

The App Store now has over 300,000 apps--and it continues to grow at a rapid rate (but will be taking a break for Christmas). Want to learn some more app statistics? App of the Day (a Canadian teen entrepreneur production) breaks it down with a simple infographic: What stands out is the number of unique...

Do you use Dropbox? It's the best way to access your files 'from the cloud' to your iOS device--for free. The Dropbox team just released 1.0 for Mac/PC, so I would encourage everyone to update to this new version. It includes a tonne of bug fixes and has been optimized. Here are the new changes:...

Apple announced this morning that the Apple Mac App Store will be live on January 6, 2011 in 90 countries. “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun....

Today Apple released a minor update to the latest iTunes 10. The new iTunes is now version 10.1.1 and is available on a PC/Mac via Apple Software Update or from Apple's website. iTunes 10.1.1 The new iTunes 10.1.1 update primarily brings bug fixes with no other major feature upgrades or enhancements. The update lists the...

Are you an iOS developer that wants a better way to integrate in-app payments? PayPal has now setup their Mobile Payments Library to make it easier for developers. Here's a brief description: With our mobile libraries, you can start accepting in-app payments in a matter of minutes. As always, you can use the library for...

Late last week we wrote about antid0te, an upcoming tool that add Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security to your iPhone. Some new information has emerged from the official antid0te.com website. antid0te will not be a new jailbreak tool, but will used with already jailbroken iPhones, and slated for a December 24th release. Below is...

The Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages finally gave Apple the go-ahead today to establish a Canadian version of their popular iBookstore. While there has been a bookstore available using your Canadian iTunes account since almost launch date (I seem to remember for the first number of weeks/months it was filled only with classics...

Do you have a second generation Apple TV? Apple just pushed an update, firmware version 4.1.1 (the previous firmware was 4.1), build 8C154. The iOS remains 4.2.1. Yes, I know this is confusing. Just to clarify: in the Apple TV's About menu, hit the select button on your remote and it'll cycle between firmware, and...

Erica Sadun is one of the most prominent iPhone hackers, and this time she has worked her iPhone magic again. According to her post on TUAW, she has created a hack called AirPlayer, which will stream AirPlay from any iOS device to your Mac. She reverse engineered AirPlay to create this. Yes, you read that...

Update 1: via twitter atekant: @iPhoneinCanada I am on the phone with Fido and talking to the unlock guy right now. there doesn't seem to be a problem with the iPhone Update 2: the unlocking process explained via @atekant. He was told to restore his iPhone and it would be "unlocked" via iTunes 611->1st guy:...

Tonight from 10PM – 12AM PST, Apple will be applying scheduled maintenance for its me.com service, MobileMe. During the maintenance, web apps on me.com will not be accessible and the maintenance will also affect those trying to sync data between devices. “Due to scheduled maintenance, some MobileMe members may be unable to sync between their...