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Three leading universities in United Arab Emirates have handed over iPads to their first-year students, giving them freedom from carrying a heavy backpack with massive textbooks around, reports The New York Times, with a goal to provide iPads to all the students so that in four years, the universities will have completely paperless classrooms. Last year, UAE's three major higher-education...

Apple's iTunes Connect has sent out a message to iOS developers to notify them of two new App Store marketing badges along with new product images of the iPhone 5 and 5th generation iPod touch to use when displaying apps (the iPad mini is absent though): We are excited to announce two new App Store...

The embargo has been lifted on iPad mini reviews. The new 7.9 inch tablet is set to launch in numerous countries this Friday, November 2nd and it includes Canada. The first reviews have hit the web, here's a round up of what's out there so far so check them out: The Loop TIME Tech The...

According to The Province, a Surrey woman is suing Apple alleging the company has violated her privacy and security rights via their iOS devices. Amanda Ladas filed a lawsuit today in B.C. Supreme Court and alleges Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch tracks the movements of her and son--without them knowing: “Ladas is concerned that,...

The Wall Street Journal has a follow up article to yesterday's news of Scott Forstall being forced out of Apple. It has long been known Forstall had attributes similar to Steve Jobs, who first hired the latter to work at NeXT. A year ago, Businessweek profiled Forstall as a hot-headed executive that got things done even...

Over at the Fido Technical Community forums, the moderators there have concluded the widespread bug in iOS 6 related to data usage while being on Wi-Fi doesn't exist, as the team is unable to pinpoint the problem: Hi everyone, Fido has confirmed that there is no issue. The data issues (where Wi-Fi connected phones are...

Anybody who has used Windows for more than a few days will bite their tongue when they hear Ballmer state that "you'll find things on Windows phones that you won't find on iPhone or Android." That's exactly what we are afraid of: patches and updates and blue screens, oh my! Part of the joy with...

Apple's iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won't show up as "Delivered" and just hang. During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what's...

Apple has confirmed to The Loop it has delayed iTunes 11 until November: “The new iTunes is taking longer than expected and we wanted to take a little extra time to get it right. We look forward to releasing this new version of iTunes with its dramatically simpler and cleaner interface, and seamless integration with...

Apple customers are famed for their loyalty, but turns out for the first time since the iPhone was released, the number of iPhone owners saying they will definitively upgrade to the next-generation device has dropped. (more…)

Google has just pushed a significant update to its Google Search universal iPhone / iPad app with an improved voice search, that behaves pretty much like Apple's own digital voice assistant Siri. The voice recognition engine is much faster than before, thanks to its on the fly text streaming. Similar to Siri, you tap the red mic...

Apple has pushed out a minor update to its iOS app Cards to allow for an easier way to swap photos and also to fix a few bugs. Some users have experienced sent cards show up as drafts in their history and others have also suffered from the app just crashing. Those issues have been...