While not directly Canadian, McDonald's in Sweden ran a great interactive billboard that enabled users to wireless play a game of Ping Pong using their smartphone. By completing the game within 30 seconds, players won coupons for free food in their nearest Mcdonald’s restaurant. The really unique part of this interactive billboard is that users...
One of the most popular brands in gaming/performance headphones is Monster. Many of their headphones deliver great sound and comfort, but typically with a steep price tag. With the past movie release of TRON: Legacy, Monster and Disney came together to create the TRON Legacy T3 In-Ear Headphones. The headphones are the best of Monster...
Instagram is one of the most simplistic and enjoyable social networks on the iPhone. Why? For starters it's a free app that is incredibly easy to use. Not only that, it's a tonne of fun, and it's becoming a massive photo-sharing juggernaut. The New York Times has an article featuring Instagram, and here are some...
Update 2: Okay, this is the real deal. @arnoldkim confirmed to me via twitter he saw it with his own eyes and took the screenshot himself, it was not a screen sent into MacRumors. It appears to be a US-only slip up--as Apple has deactivated the Updates page. Update 1: Apple recently referred to applications...
Popular Canadian developer Ryan Petrich has announced TweakWeek, a new promotion to enable 3rd party devs to get their tweaks out there. The premise is to have one free tweak a day by Ryan, then thereafter tweaks by other notable developers. Apps must be open source. Here's what's been released so far: June 1: DietBar...
Jan-Michael Cart is back in action with his iOS 5 concept videos. This morning he posted an update to his blog about his latest video titled, "Dynamic Icons". The premise involves homescreen icons being updated to reflect push notifications--making a formerly dead homescreen into something that is full of life. As described by Cart: Users...
MobileNotifier is a fantastic notfication tweak available in Cydia, from developer Peter Hajas. We first reviewed MobileNotifier back in February, and it has soon evolved into a viable notification alternative (that is until iOS 5 is revealed!). Recently, Peter blogged about his departure from MobileNotifier, shocking most people including yours truly. He said he couldn't...
In response to Rogers, Telus has now reduced the rate of their Unlimited Quebec package to $45/month until June 15, 2011. For plan details, see below: $45/month Minutes: Unlimited Local & Long Distance in Quebec Features: Group Calling, Call Waiting, Call Forwarding The price reduction is available for new and existing Telus subscribers. [MobileSyrup]
Until we hear it from the horse's mouth, the details of iOS 5 have remained pretty quiet so far. Earlier rumours via TechCrunch stated twitter integration within iOS 5, and John Gruber declared it could possibly be natively integrated. Today, Robert Scoble claims his iOS 5 connections have told him twitter will be deeply integrated...
Update 2: This is a clever photoshop job. The 'glare' on the badge on the newer image is different from the original. Fake. Update 1: Here's another iCloud image posted by @chpwn of the apparent iCloud Beta login page (via RazorianFly/@markgurman), an actual screenshot instead of a picture of a monitor: Speculate in...
It's Friday, Friday...gonna ge...errr... We've seen previous iOS 5 concept videos before, but here's another cool one from the folks at Monkey Color. They believe iOS 5 should have Widgets, Settings, Notifications, and Favorite Friends--what do you think? [iSpazio via iClarified]
Apple is serious when it comes negotiations, and according to the New York Post, they have paid up to $150 million dollars to have the four major music labels sign on and agree to Apple's upcoming iCloud service. Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advanced payments to the four major...
