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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...

Rovio Entertainment has today released the annual Halloween update for its Angry Birds Seasons game titled the "Haunted Hogs". The update brings 30 brand new Halloween themed levels along with some spooky new music to get you into the Halloween spirit. Both the iPhone and iPad versions of Angry Birds Seasons have received the update. The "Haunted Hogs" takes the...

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 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)...

Apple has released three new accessories in its online store following yesterday's iPad Mini launch event i.e a Lightning to VGA adapter, a Lightning Digital AV (HDMI) adapter and a new 12W USB power adapter, as pointed out by The Verge. Lightning to VGA Adapter The Lightning to VGA Adapter ($49 on Apple Store) connects to your iPad with...

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...

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...

Kristy from Mobile Phone Finder emailed us this video to share with you--Shit Android Fanatics Say. It's another video from the "Sh*t <insert> Say" theme that's been making its away across the web this year. I'm pretty sure this video is spot on as it characterizes some of you insecure Android fanatics pretty accurately. Not all Android...

Tweetie founder Loren Brichter formerly told the world he had a new iOS game coming and it has just launched. Called Letterpress, it's a free word game where you create words on a 5x5 board with an opponent via Game Center: Find words, steal tiles, color the board! Letterpress is a fresh new word game...

Easy commerce for everyone (real name 'Square') has finally stepped into Canadian territory. The service enables fast payments for anyone running a business in Canada, no matter where the business is located. Although not the first mobile payment system in Canada, it's one of the most popular based on its success in the U.S., as...

Earlier today we noted analyst reactions to the $329 starting price of the new iPad mini. Now in a separate article Reuters (via BGR) interviews Apple SVP Phil Schiller on the iPad mini's starting price: "The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category. The most affordable product we've made so far was...

As widely anticipated thanks to the rumor mill built around Apple, the iPad mini was launched with a great fanfare yesterday. But everybody was surprised when Apple announced the iPad mini pricing, and the first reaction of future iPad (mini?) buyers was among lots of smiling faces: the device is overpriced. (more…)