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The WSJ has a lengthy article profiling 48 year old Apple executive Eddy Cue, a 23 year veteran of Apple and current senior vice president of Internet Software and Services: Mr. Cue has lately managed crises related to Apple's mobile maps and iCloud and iMessage outages. He has taken on iBooks and the iAd advertising service and...

Do you strive to be the most fashionable iPhone nerd around? Are you tired of those people that wear their smartphones attached to their belts with a clip? If you answered "yes" to either of those questions, this news story just might be for you. A brand called "WTF Jeans" (no seriously, it's actually called...

Today has been a good day for app updates, as earlier we noted Chrome for iOS and Google Drive received some nice updates. There are some other worthy apps that received updates today worthy of your time. Skype for iOS can now chat with Messenger, Hotmail and Outlook.com contacts. Users can sign in and merge...

We've seen various concept designs for the rumoured Apple television and also iOS user interface updates for notifications. But what about a concept design for the popular photosharing network, Instagram? TechCrunch shares a video created by designer Stephen Levinson, who redesigned a concept version of Instagram to be more intuitive and take advantage of gestures....

Apple is now guaranteeing new iPad mini orders on its website before Christmas to Canada and the USA. Its instructions to customers on Apple.ca states: Order iPad mini by midnight December 4 for guaranteed delivery before Christmas. Check cart for details. Or buy at your favourite Apple Retail Store. As for shipping times, the iPad mini...

Google has updated Chrome for iOS to allow for more options when it comes to opening PDF files (you can choose an app to open the files in) and also Passbook support. The latter will allow you to save your boarding passes and tickets right to Passbook. Full change log: What's New in Version 23.0.1271.91...

There are about three quarters of a billion active iOS and Android devices across the globe, set to generate approximately $10 billion in revenue by the end of 2012. These numbers are amazing, but which countries are driving this tremendous growth of the mobile market? Flurry has the answers. (more…)

ScoreMobile has received an update today, which has changed its name to theScore. The awesome sports app also now brings optimized support for the iPad and iPad mini, in both landscape and portrait modes. Also included today is better social sharing support to Twitter and Facebook. What's New in Version 3.5 • ScoreMobile is now...

The taxi app Hailo has partnered with Molson Coors Canada to give away $1 million dollars worth of taxi fares for the upcoming holiday season in Toronto, part of a campaign to ensure people get home safe for the holidays. “At Hailo, we make it easy to get home from any holiday gathering – allowing...

RIM has yet another battle on its hands, this time coming from Nokia. Back in 2003, RIM licensed wireless patents from Nokia, assuming the WLAN standard was included. In Nokia's eyes, this was not the case and the Finnish company has now asked a court in California to enforce its arbitration award and ban BlackBerry...

According to a new survey, Canadians are more addicted to our smartphones than we think. WIND Mobile conducted the national survey on November 21-22 (from 1501 Angus Reid Forum panel members) and here is what they discovered from cellphone owners aged 18-34, on what they would give up before their smartphones: 37% of say they would...

Apple has decided to limit the terms of one of the patents successfully asserted in the $1 billion verdict against Samsung. First reported by Florian Müller of Foss Patents, Apple filed a so-called "terminal disclaimer" with the US Patent Office yesterday, as a reply to the Samsung motion claiming Apple's US Patent No. D618,677 is...