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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...

TELUS continues to expand its 4G LTE network in Alberta and today it has announced the launch in Okotoks and High River, as part of the company's plan to bring the high speed technology to more than 80 percent of the province by year's end. The expansion today is part of a $3 million investment...

Following the departure of Scott Forstall from Apple, company's former head of software design, Apple's hardware design chief Jonathan Ive a.k.a Johnny Ive has been given control of software design as well, a move that will prove to be good for the Cupertino company, believe the analysts (via Reuters). Tim Cook's decision to make Ive, company's celebrated industrial design chief,...

According to Newsweek's 2012 Green Rankings for U.S. companies, Apple ranks in the 112th spot. Newsweek explains their methodology in determining the ranks of companies: To produce the 2012 Green Rankings, Newsweek collaborated with leading environmental research providers, Trucost and Sustainalytics, to assess each company’s environmental footprint, management of that footprint, and transparency. Although Apple...

AKG, the leading manufacturers of professional quality microphones, headphones and wireless-equipment, have announced the all new AKG K551 reference-class full-sized headphones, that also host a remote control and an in-line microphone allowing you to control your music and answer phone calls from your iPhone. Featuring a 50-millimeter driver on each ear, these stylish and portable headphones let you...