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Bell has just adjusted their consumer rate plans during this past day, and based off comments I've read, consumers aren't all too happy with the changes. Bell began to shift away from their various numbers of plans to leave just three category plans: Voice & Data, Voice & Data Lite and Voice. But the name alone...

The London 2012 Olympics had their opening ceremonies yesterday and during that time Apple launched three new Mac TV ads, profiling the magical Apple Genius. Check them out below: Mayday: An Apple Genius shows a fellow passenger how easy it is to make great home movies with iMovie. All before the tray tables are returned to...

Nick Bilton over at the New York Times reports Apple could be investing a stake in Twitter, according to unnamed sources: Apple has considered an investment in the hundreds of millions of dollars, one that could value Twitter at more than $10 billion, up from an $8.4 billion valuation last year, these people said. They...

Siri has been caught red faced after mistaking poison ivy for poisonous oak in their latest paper advertisement on the back of the The Economist. The advertisement clearly asks Siri, "What does poison oak look like?"--the response pulls up a photo of poison ivy instead, courtesy of Wolfram Alpha. If this is myself making the...

If you think back years ago, even before the initial release of the iPhone, many teens didn't own a phone. That was just five to six years ago. The smartphone around that time was just beginning to evolve. With the release of the iPhone, the mobile phone market was supercharged in my opinion, and that's...

If you haven't followed Apple patents closely over the years, you may not realize that they've filed many patents regarding video glasses. Dating back to 2006, Apple has filed patents similar to Google's, "Project Glass" glasses; one interesting patent has come into light earlier today. Apple wants to bring their high resolution Retina display to...

A Chinese iPhone case maker Shenzhen Coolzone Technology has listed a new product on its website that not only displays an iPhone 5 case but also a physical mockup of the next generation iPhone 5 handset with matches the white 3D prototype leaked previously, complete with its new 19-pin dock port (via Gizmodo). Looking at the listing,...

Yesterday, a new court filing made by Apple regarding the ongoing patent battle with Samsung revealed that company's gross margins on the iPad were much lower between April 2010 and the end of March 2012 as compared to the iPhone in U.S., as reported by Reuters. Apple earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent...

A recent publication by AllThingsD highlights Apple's argument in the ongoing patents war with Samsung Electronics that the Korean tech giant deliberately copied iPhone’s and iPad’s iconic designs as well as their intuitive user interfaces, even though Google warned the company about great similarity in design of Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab with respective iOS devices. Apple...

According to the latest IDC report on worldwide smartphone marketshare, Samsung and Apple continue to dominate over traditional cellphone makers such as Nokia and HTC. The latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report notes on 2012 Q2 smartphone marketshare and Samsung dominates with 32.6% (50.2 million phones shipped), while Apple trails at 16.9% (26...

If you waste away hours of your life on YouTube then you should know about those bacon-filled Epic Meal Time videos that air every Tuesday, led by Montrealer Harley Morenstein and his crew. Epic Meal Time has now become one of the most popular YouTube channels in the world with 2.6 million subscribers and over...

Another week and another free 'App of the Week' from Apple. This week it is the universal game Catapult King, made by Chilingo. Regularly priced at $0.99, this app has been described in the reviews as a 3D version of Angry Birds, as you are the catapult. There are 64 levels where your job is...