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Automatic, a combination app and hardware unit launching this May for $69.95, is set to make your car feel "a little smarter" by displaying everything from its fuel economy to its crash response, right on your iPhone. As The Verge goes hands on with the upcoming device, it appears the device connects to a car's OBD-II Data...

According to a report by CTV BC, one particular iPhone 5 user in South Surrey was unhappy with his TELUS network reception to the point where he decided to cancel his contract early with the company. Steve Lee's neighbourhood in South Surrey previously had decent cell reception but as of last April, the coverage had...

It was recently discovered the latest 'silent' Apple TV update contained a smaller A5 chip, with speculation it could have been manufactured by TSMC's 28 nm process, possibly part of a production trial to create smaller chips for Apple. Now, Chipworks (via MacRumors) has confirmed the A5 within the latest Apple TV is still being...

TELUS has announced its 4G LTE network is now officially live in Saint John, part of its ongoing rollout in Atlantic Canada. The launch comes as other areas such as St. John's, Moncton, Charlottetown and Halifax all have their LTE networks up and running as well. The company notes 70 per cent of the Canadian...

The Evad3rs jailbreak team has been busy over the past day or so as two updates have been released for the evasi0n jailbreak tool. The latest is version 1.5.3 which aims to fix bugs for the Windows version; this release was published shortly after the 1.5.2 version that provided language support for French, Chinese and...

While there was a spike in Android malware, iOS has been a relatively secure mobile platform thanks to the app review process and app sandboxing. But it had its share of flaws, as the most recent reports have highlighted (see here and here). A security company, however, seems to be concerned about an iOS feature...

Intel's push to enter into the chip contracting business has sparked rumours of a possible partnership with Apple. According to "institutional investors" cited by a Digitimes report, Intel could be awarded as much as 10% of Apple's next-generation chip orders. (more…)

Apple has uploaded a couple new iPhone 5 TV ads to its YouTube channel tonight, titled "Brilliant" and "Discover". Both ads feature the following description: With an iPhone, there's an app for that. And that. And that. The ads showcase the numerous apps available for the iPhone and the format is similar to recent iPad...

Marvel announced late yesterday at SXSW plans to give away 700 of their comics for free as part of a promotion to gain more readers. At $1.99-$3.99 per issue, giving away 700 number one issues is definitely a way to overwhelm comiXology servers, and that's just exactly what has happened. ComiXology CEO David Steinberger announced they...

According to a study published today in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by Isaac I. Bogoch, MD, from the Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Toronto General Hospital, says the iPhone camera modified as a microscope can yield modest results in detecting worms based on their field study: The researchers mounted a 3-mm...

When Amazon isn't targeting the iPad mini against its Kindle Fire HD on its homepage, it is showing off how cool its eTextbooks are for students looking to take their studies to another level. What's interesting about the following Kindle eTextbooks demo is Amazon pimps out the Kindle iOS app for iPad, rather than showing...

Google has announced the refresh of its Gmail mobile web app, to streamline its interface to look like that of its iOS app: Today we’re rolling out a similar refreshed look to the Gmail mobile web app as well as Gmail Offline (http://goo.gl/0f1ae) that includes many of these same changes. Try it out at gmail.com...