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Koodo has launched new Canada-wide promo voice and data plans (as first spotted by MobileSyrup yesterday) to go with some improvements to their regular plans. For the promo Canada-wide plans, voice minutes and data buckets have doubled, which make them perfect for the casual unlocked iPhone user. The $60 plan looks pretty awesome and is better...

ION All-Star, the popular electric guitar controller that turns your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into fully-featured guitar learning tool and game controller, is now available with $50 discount at Future Shop Canada, as part of Black Friday deals. The offer will end on November 25, 2012. The guitar features a built-in speaker that lets you play just...

Analyst Gene Munster has made an interesting prediction regarding a cheaper iPhone, saying that Apple will launch a $200, unsubsidized iPhone in 2014, reports the Business Insider. In order to increase its market share in countries like India and China, Apple will introduce a cheaper iPhone with a price point of around $200. In the...

Toronto-based GelaSkins has launched their annual 20% off site-wide Black Friday sale. Everything on the site is discounted and that includes skins and cases for the latest iOS devices like the iPhone 5 or iPad mini and more. You can get a skin for your iPhone 5 for $11.96. GelaSkins supports over 100+ worldwide independent...

An ex-Apple employee has a lot to say about the company, particularly when it comes to their Internet-enabled endeavours (including services like iCloud, MobileMe, and .Mac). According to engineer Patrick B. Gibson, "almost everything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess." (via ZDNET) Gibson helped build the original iPad before leaving Apple for work at...

Studio Neat has announced the release of new Glif and Glif+ for iPhone 5 today, both of which are now available for order and will begin shipping early next week. The Glif ($20) is a small, elegant tripod mount and stand for the iPhone. You can use it to mount your iPhone 5 to a tripod for taking pictures & making...

In an era when online security and privacy are central questions, Sophos has today dropped the information that cyber criminals aren't just targeting your applications -- they can't really, due to Apple's ecosystem -- but they have now found another way to get access your private data: by convincing you to infect yourself. (more…)

The Telegraph is reporting (via The Register) that British bank Barclays has placed one of UK’s largest ever iPad orders i.e 8,500 units, for its various branches in order to better assist and interact with customers, in an effort to improve the overall customer experience. The iPads will also feature a new app specifically for mortgage advisers called "Mortgage...

Apple has been forced to change its battery suppliers for the MacBook Pro lines and the iPad to Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery after a Samsung subsidiary in charge of battery production, Samsung SDI, stopped supplying Apple, China Business News (via TechCrunch) reported. (more…)

It turns out that LG Display is the largest iPad mini display supplier as AU Optronics suffers from poor yields in production, Taiwanese industry sources report (Via Digitimes). Well, at least besides Samsung, that is. (more…)

Apple has kicked off their 2012 Black Friday sale in Canada. Earlier today we got a glimpse of what to expect when the sale went live in Australia (such as the iPad mini being excluded). Here are the savings you can get right now both online and in-store: iPad with Retina display: $499 –> save...

BodyGuardz is kicking off another Black Friday sale, this time it's 40% off everything site-wide (last year it was 50% off site wide). Whether you're looking for protective skins for your iPhone 5 or iPad mini (or any other iOS device), cases or earphones, it's all included in the sale. No promo codes are required as...