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Foursquare has announced the first location to surpass one million check-ins is Atlanta's International Airport: You guys! We just hit a huge milestone! Today, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport became the first location on Foursquare to pass 1,000,000 check-ins. ATL is one of the busiest airports in the world and Foursquare users have left over 2000...

According to a report by German blog iFun, some carriers have already completed testing the iOS 6.1.1 update that addresses 3G performance issues faced by a number of carriers in Europe, who have also issued warnings to their subscribers not to upgrade to iOS 6.1, and Apple will soon roll out an OTA update carrying build number 10B145 (via 9to5Mac)....

Apple CEO Tim Cook's highly anticipated keynote presentation at Goldman Sachs's technology conference, which was scheduled to begin at 1:15 p.m. Pacific time (4:15 p.m. Eastern time) tomorrow, will now start 6 hours earlier, according to CNN Money. The new time for Tim Cook's keynote speech is 7:15 a.m. Pacific (10:15 Eastern) as given on Apple's Investor Relations page. In other words,...

Analyst Scott Devitt at Morgan Stanley has reported that Apple is charging almost $1 billion each year from Google for making it the default search engine on iOS devices (via Business Insider). While some analysts have previously estimated that Apple has a revenue sharing deal with Google on iOS search, Devitt believes Apple would rather has a fee...

Luxury car maker BMW has announced its new “BMW Genius Everywhere” program across all of its dealerships, a customer assistance setup inspired by Apple's industry leading Genius Bar program incorporated in its retail stores, reports TNW (via Adage). The German car maker has asked its dealers to hire young, tech-savvy employees to handle questions about its vehicles on...

On Friday Rogers announced it was set to introduce a new US data roaming add on for $7.99 per day, which includes 50MB of data. Now, according to our sources Fido will also introduce this same offer later this spring, even though it was confirmed the carrier would not receive it. Coming this spring, customers...

Rogers has made some changes to its value pack add ons for smartphone customers including those with the iPhone. The website now shows the following iPhone value pack for $5 per month: Name Display Visual Voicemail Plus Unlimited U.S. & International Text Messages WhoCalled™ Do note that Name Display only shows the name of callers,...

TELUS on Friday announced the official launch of their 4G LTE network in Salmon Arm, part of a $600,000 investment and overall $3 billion the company is investing in new facilities and infrastructure in BC until 2014: “TELUS is committed to providing the best service to our customers, and that includes offering people in Salmon...

Investment research firm Topeka Capital (via AppleInsider) is convinced Apple will present a lower-price iPhone around June, after discovering several unreleased iPhone prototypes back in December. (more…)

Apple executives were formally summoned on Monday to explain personally in front of a Australian parliamentary committee in Canberra on 22 March why Australian consumers need to pay so much more for their products despite, having a stronger currency. (more…)

A Chinese website (Via The Times of India) has posted some fresh images of the alleged iPhone 5S, Apple's cheaper version of its current iPhone model. As you can see from images below, the photos show both the rear and front panels, and also a production line with the documents suggesting the leak is comes...

In a report published last night, Reuters profiles the Apple versus Samsung saga that provides interesting insight into the now troubled business relationship between both companies, given the complicated legal wars currently being waged. The late former Apple CEO Steve Jobs wanted to go "thermonuclear" on Android and Samsung for copying Apple's designs. However, sources...