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Bell customers, it's now official! Bell will be launching their potent HSPA network in Manitoba beginning on August 1st. There will be two phases during the launch. Phase one is said to cover “69% of the Manitoba market,” comprising of Oakbank, Selkrik, Steinbach, Stonewall, and Winnipeg. Phase two will cover an additional 5 percent of the market, including Brandon...

Renowned iOS hacker and key member of Chronic-Dev Team Joshua Hill, more commonly known as @p0sixninja, has just announced his departure from the team on twitter. Popular iPhone / iPad jailbreak tool greenpois0n is one of the biggest highlights of Chronic-Dev Team and p0sixninja has been one of the leading developers behind it. It is no question that p0sixninja has played...

Budget Car Rental, one of the world's best-known car rental brands with more than 3,000 locations in 120 countries, has launched its official app in the iTunes App Store today that allows users to make, view, modify or cancel reservations for car rentals at Budget neighborhood and airport locations throughout the United States and Canada (via WSJ...

Moscow based company OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone’s biggest wireless carrier in Russia, has blamed Apple for not lowering the iPhone's price in the country and being too strict about how it’s sold (via Bloomberg Businessweek). Apple is currently selling the iPhone 4S at $1,000-plus price in the country making it a hard sell in a market where rival...

You may not have realized this, but the iOS App Store contains more than 650,000 applications. Many of those applications have never even been downloaded. The content of the application isn't necessarily poor, the App Store was mainly poorly designed. Applications that have never been downloaded, ranked, or even reviewed, are called "zombie" applications. The...

It’s pretty rare in this day and age that I read the synopsis of an app and say (out loud, no less,) “What? No way! Now that is cool!” In today’s crowded App Store, it’s rare to come across an app that utilizes technology in a way I’d never seen or heard of before. But that’s exactly...

The Starbucks App Pick of the Week is SoundHound, regularly priced as a $6.99 download in the App Store. SoundHound is like Shazam, as it enables users to quickly determine what song they are listening to, but the app takes it a bit further. It also displays song lyrics and includes singing and humming recognition. This...

Apple, just six weeks away from the proclaimed iPhone event date, could be having issues with their display suppliers. According to Digitimes, rumors around the touch-panel industry have indicated yield rates for the next generation iPhone's in-cell touch panel "are too low to generate profits". Japan Display, LG Display, and Sharp are supposedly the three tipped display...

If you're active on the internet, chances are you have a Facebook account. If you have a smartphone, I'm going to second guess you have the Facebook mobile application installed. So if this is all true, you may want to know about Facebook's latest nifty addition that allows users to save a post for later...

Adam Satariano, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. (AAPL) is preparing to introduce the next version of the iPhone on Sept. 12 in what will be a design overhaul of its top-selling product, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s plans. The people asked not to be named because an official announcement hasn’t been...

Typically when people wish to learn how to code, whether it be CSS or Ruby, a college class would be an excellent choice. But a website called Code School can teach you similar information for a monthly fee of $25.00. Code School's upcoming installment to their course guide will be dubbed "Try iOS". The course...

Earlier this morning a report from iMore claimed the next generation iPhone, iPad Mini, and iPod Nano would be announced at an event on September 12th. With iMore having been very reliable with past rumors, we are taking this rumor well into consideration. Now just a mere few hours later, a few more publications including...