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TUAW is reporting that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has deployed iPads in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in order to help mothers stay in touch with their newborns and also interact with hospital staff when they are unable to do so in person. The initiative is a part of a program called BabyTime,...

Google has released an update to Chrome for iOS to bring fullscreen mode to the iPhone and iPod touch. How to enable it? Easy. Just scroll up and the omnibox disappears. To bring back the latter, scroll back down. This update also adds the ability for printing via Google Cloud Print, AirPrint and also the...

Google has announced Parliament will soon get Street View via Google Maps, as the Street View Trolley has been making its way through Parliament Hill. Through the main doors of Parliament, Google Maps users will be able to virtually walk down the Hall of Honour, visit the Memorial Chamber and take the elevator to the...

iPhone 5S buyers will be able to choose from different screen sizes, claims Brian White, a Topeka analyst, after he met with Apple's supply chain representatives while on a seven-day tour of China and Taiwan (via CNET). (more…)

CNET reports Starbucks will soon digitize its free Pick of the Week cards, to allow downloads via the iOS app and in-store Wi-Fi. Starbucks has worked with Apple to expand its Pick of the Week program and finally allow for application and book downloads through its iOS application and in-store Wi-Fi network, the coffee company...

If you have saved your SHSH blobs for iOS 6.0-iOS 6.1.2 in Cydia for later downgrading, Saurik has bad news for you: the TSS data Cydia saved for iOS 6.0-6.1.2 is unusable. This isn't the best news in the jailbreak world we are reporting today. From now on if you have a jailbroken device running...

A new report seems to deny rumours of an April launch of the iPad 5. Digitimes has learned that Apple will start production of the next generation 9.7-inch iPad in later this summer. (more…)

The creator of the Apple's famous retail stores, Ron Johnson, quit the company back in November of 2011 to take up a position as CEO at J.C. Penney. At the time, Johnson was quoted as saying he had always dreamed of the CEO position at a major retail outlet. He also said he was excited...

The name Lodsys became known to developers -- especially to those using in-app purchases -- in 2011, when the patent troll went after them demanding more than one-half percent of their revenue. (more…)

If you've been waiting for an iTunes Card sale, head over to Future Shop and Best Buy as both companies currently are offering 20% off all cards priced $50 or higher in-store. So eligible cards include their $50 cards, $60 multipacks and $100 cards. After the discount, the prices work out to $40, $48 and...

Blacks Photography has announced it now carries cellphones from Koodo, and as part of the launch celebration they are offering a $150 VISA gift card to any new TELUS/Koodo tab activations or 2-3 year term contracts. Prepaid is not eligible for this promo. Blacks confirmed with us the iPhone 5 is eligible on this offer...

In order to bring the iOS app in line with its Android counterpart, Google has updated the Google Drive app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to support faster document editing and landscape mode support for iPhone. According to Google, Google Drive now loads faster with quicker editing support. In addition to the usual bug fixes, the...