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The iPhone 4 had antenna issues dubbed "antennagate". Apple's idea of a fix was to give out free Bumper cases and to extend their return policy to 30 days. Steve Jobs told people to "Just don't hold it that way". Covering the antenna on the iPhone 4 led to dropped signals and calls. People were...

* Believe it if you will. Thanks to our friends at 9to5Mac for "confirming" the arrival of the white iPhone 4 in Spring 2011. Apparently Apple store signage being distributed includes the verbiage " The white iPhone 4 will be available spring 2011". Yeah! Err...ummm, whatever. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my iPhone 4...

A while back the iPhone Dev Team released the latest unlock for the iPhone 3G/3gs. This unlock had a unique workaround--use PwnageTool/redsn0w to inject the iPad's baseband (which was unlockable) into the iPhone 3G/3GS. Then, use ultrasn0w via Cydia to do the rest. Caution: iPad Baseband Causes GPS to Fail Recent usage of this unlock has...

If you're an RBC customer and hoping for an iPhone app, you can now expect one soon. RBC has a page dedicated to announcing details of their upcoming mobile banking app for the iPhone (and Blackberry). Here are some details: Bank Anywhere, Anytime, On Your Schedule Soon you’ll be able to bank on your iPhone®1...

Everybody loves Google Doodles as they are just fun to view during special holidays and dates. The Google team announced yesterday mobile users on iPhone/Android no longer have to miss out on the fun: While we’ve had oodles of Google doodles on our desktop homepage since Larry and Sergey created our very first in 1998,...

Here's some afternoon fun for you! Zero Punctuation decided to take a break from "reviewing" the latest console games to instead take a look at some of the hottest iPhone games, namely Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and Fruit Ninja. If you are at all familiar with Zero Punctuation, and Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, then you...

I – like a ballooning number of other iOS 4.2 users – as evidenced by this Apple Discussion Thread, seem to be having major slowdowns with WiFi browsing/download speeds with the newest update. This is eerily reminiscent of the original delay of the iOS 4.2 upgrade and the submission of the new OS Gold Master...

Update 1: From the Xmarks Blog: We’re also committed to keeping Xmarks free while implementing a viable long-term plan. Xmarks is transitioning to a “freemium” business model, the same model that allowed LastPass to grow into a thriving, profitable business. The browser add-on and the vast majority of what users have enjoyed remains free. Users...

Kik Messenger is a popular cross platform messaging client (2.5 million users in one month!) that was recently removed from RIM's App World. It caught on like wildfire for Blackberry users because it was free--and it would enable users to chat with Kik contacts on iPhones and Android devices. Why was Kik removed suddenly? Rationale...

Some big news coming out of Google today. Google has a new e-book ventured called Google Editions that will be coming soon. Google says that it's coming before the end of the year, and that the store will feature a massive library of books, similar to that of Amazon. From the WSJ: Google Editions hopes...

Well we've had AirPrint for a few weeks now but it's not all it's cracked up to be, other than a few new AirPrint enabled printers it doesn't really work for most of us. Lets fix that. Regardless of your OS of choice we're going to show you how to get it working with ANY printer...

A recent survey by German research firm Gfk noted that Apple iPhone users are the most loyal compared to other smartphone brands. According to Reuters: "Loyalty with a handset is a lot more complicated these days in that people buy into experiences at the high-end level," Ryan Garner, the lead analyst on the survey, told...