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Air Canada has quietly added Passbook support for boarding passes. Passbook is Apple's new ticket repository that debuted with iOS 6. Essentially it stores all your coupons, gift cards, passes, movie tickets and anything else that has a barcode. According to iPhoneinCanada reader @aaron604, existing customers that purchase airline tickets are sent unique URLs via...

Cineplex Mobile was one of the first apps to support Passbook, Apple's ticket repository app that debuted with iOS 6. Cineplex Mobile was updated at the end of September to bring Passbook support for SCENE cardholders now it has been updated to bring Passbook ticket notifications: What's New in Version 3.5 - New Interactive Cineplex...

Apple announced its new iPad mini would start pre-orders on Friday, October 26th. As for the time when we can pre-order online at Apple.ca, it will be once again at 12:01AM PDT (3AM EDT) just like it was for the iPhone 5. Both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi+Cellular models will be available tonight, but cellular models won't...

During Apple's 2012 Q4 earnings call, Apple CEO was asked a question about the company's old position on dismissing 7-inch tablets made by their competitors, which the late Steve Jobs said would "dead on arrival". Cook clarified that stance was aimed directly at precise tablets of 7-inches in diameter--whereas the new iPad mini is at...

Looks like Apple's iMessage is down for the count, as noted by numerous users. Messages look like they are about to finish sending, but they don't completely go through. Our own experience trying to send iMessages on our Mac gives us a message that particular users "aren't registered with iMessage" (which isn't true): The last...

DigiTimes is reporting through its anonymous industry sources that iPad Mini's DITO film sensor is having mass production issues, which is why the device is approximately 40-50% more expensive compared to other 7-inch tablets. The iPad Mini features the GF2 (DITO film) touch screen technology, which according to the source, has extremely low yield rates as a result of...

Apple has posted its 2012 fourth quarter earnings and has announced $36 billion in revenue and a net profit of $8.2 billion. International sales accounted for 60% of their revenue: “We’re entering this holiday season with the best iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod products ever, and we remain very confident in our new product pipeline.”...

Opera's Q3 2012 installment of the State of Mobile Advertising report reveals that Apple’s iOS is the highest yielding platform on its advertising network. Furthermore, it appears that Android isn't even as effective as Blackberry as an advertising platform, points out The Next Web (via The Loop). Back in July, Opera officially declared iOS as the most effective mobile advertising platform with an...

With over 400 million iTunes accounts, Apple is now the world's largest online music retailer. However, it looks like the Cupertino giant now wants its share from the online music streaming market as well and is planning to introduce its own radio service as early as 2013 in order to compete with Pandora, reports Bloomberg (via @Satariano)....

Canon lowered its sales forecast for its compact models by 19.5%, and professional-grade EOS models by 4.3%, as well as its profit forecast by 6.4% according to a company statement reported by Bloomberg. (more…)

Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) has released its annual report and this year telecom complaints increased by 35%, with a majority of those related to wireless services topping the charts for the fourth consecutive year: Commissioner Howard Maker had this to say: “Nearly 11 thousand consumer complaints were filed with us. That...

Songza recently surpassed 1 million Canadian users with over 900,000 of those listeners using their iOS app for curated music playlists. The update today brings iOS 6 and iPhone 5 support plus a new alarm clock feature. The latter is pretty awesome as you can set any playlist as your alarm. How to set an alarm? Go...