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Canadian Yellow Pages Gets iPhone 5 Update and Various Improvements

The Canadian Yellow Pages app has been updated to support the iPhone 5's larger screen, and also gains a plethora of new features and improvements: - Support for iPhone 5 - Updated design of homepage to be more clear on search types (business, person or reverse phone number look up) - Perform reverse number look...

Apple Debuts 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro TV Ad: “Colors”

This evening Apple uploaded a new TV ad to its YouTube channel to showcase the new 13" Retina MacBook Pro. Titled "Colors", the ad depicts the slowly rotating new Retina MacBook and the narrator highlights the Retina Display that is for "the pro in all of us". Surprisingly, the video description is empty. Check it...

Starbucks Song Pick of the Week: Ben Gibbard Single [Promo Codes]

This week at Starbucks, their free Song Pick of the Week is a single from American indie rock musician Ben Gibbard. The song "Teardrop Windows" is from the new album Former Lives released just over a week ago. The song is regularly priced at $0.99 and just under three minutes long. Here are 19 promo codes...
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Another Casualty of Twitter’s API Rules: The News.me App

Are you a fan of the social news service News.me? If so, I'm about to be the bearer of bad news. Twitter's ever-tightening API rules have claimed yet another victim. For those that don't know about News.me, it is best described as a news "curator", which used complex algorithms to pull in news stories based...

CardSwap Launches Passbook Support for Gift Card Purchases

CardSwap has announced it has launched Passbook support for its online gift card marketplace. The service is described as follows: CardSwap allows you to buy the gift cards you want for every day purchases, and sell the ones you don't for cash. With every purchase or sale, you will earn SwapPoints. CardSwap's founder Frances Ho...

Rumour: Unlocked iPhone 5 Sales to Hit Apple Stores in Late November

The launch of the iPhone 5 this year brought changes as factory unlocked units were only available for order online and not in-store. This change was unannounced by Apple but we exclusively told you about it prior to the launch, which Apple later confirmed with us. Now, our source that initially told us about the...

Rogers 2012 Q3: 707K Smartphone Activations, iPhone 5 Increased Expenses

Rogers announced its 2012 Q3 financial results this morning, which generated a total operating revenue of $3.17 billion and an adjusted $495 million in net income. Canada's largest wireless carrier noted they activated 707,000 smartphones, with 36% of these being new customers. 76,000 net postpaid customers were added, and their ARPU (average revenue per user)...

AnandTech Explains The Magic Behind Apple’s Fusion Drive

Yesterday, Apple introduced Fusion Drive, an innovative new storage option that gives the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a standard hard drive, during the 2012 iMac & updated Mac Mini unveiling at the media event. AnandTech explains how Apple is attempting to offer the best of both worlds with its new Fusion Drive. Both the new 2012 iMac and Mac...

Introducing “GooPad Mini”, The $99 iPad Mini Android Knockoff

Think $329 is too much for an iPad Mini? Well, you should checkout the "GooPad Mini" then, that costs only $99 and looks "almost" exactly like the iPad Mini. This Chinese knockoff features an 8-inch display with 1024 x 768 resolution, the same as an iPad mini, and runs a heavily skinned Android 4.1 Jelly bean that...