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Starbucks has released their App Pick of the Week, which happens to be the game Scribblenauts Remix. Here's the app description: Help Maxwell acquire the Starite by creating any object, bringing it to life and using it to solve each challenge. Let your imagination run wild in this groundbreaking puzzle game. Summon to life a...

This day has certainly been crazy, it all started off with a privacy breach. The Antisec hackers claimed to have leaked out 1 million of the 12 million iOS UDIDs they hacked from the FBI. That wasn't all either, the president of the United States (Barack Obama) allegedly had his UDID on the leaked list, sparking a...

Apple confirmed the rumoured September 12th media event this morning when it sent out invites to the media. The invite noted a mysterious shadow that resembled the number 5, leading to some ongoing outrageous speculation about what that cryptic message means. As for what else could grace the stage, 9to5Mac speculates on what they believe...

Since the iPhone launched in 2007, each initial launch has topped all previous launches. With news earlier today that the iPhone event will be held on September 12th, an analyst has re-evaluated his sale estimates. Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray retracted his previous prediction and now believes that Apple will sell 6 to 10 million units...

The Globe and Mail has updated their iOS news app to include a new weather pane at the top of the app based on your location (or you can set it yourself), and has also made some major bug and performance tweaks. A previous update still had the app suffer from repeated crashing after customizing...

Ottawa's second Apple Store located at Bayshore Shopping Centre is set to have its grand opening this Saturday, September 8th at 9AM local time as announced on Apple's website. A week and a half ago, the location received its painted white Apple logo on the storefront, a sign of an imminent opening. This second Ottawa...

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) has released new numbers for text messages sent in Canada during the Q1 2012 period, with over 23 billion messages sent. They noted in March of 2012, 7.8 billion messages were sent, or 254 million messages per day. Total messages sent in 2011 were 78 billion, up from 56.4...

When the iPhone 4S was released in October of 2011, the phone was thereafter ranked the best selling smartphone month-after-month. Ten months later, Apple's phone may have been outsold by Samsung's flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone. In the month of August, the Galaxy S3 ranked higher than the iPhone in two-of-three U.S. based carriers. American carriers,...

With Apple's win in the Samsung case during late August, they were granted around $1 billion in damages. They haven't received any cash amount yet, and will likely have to wait until 2013 before they see the money. Unfortunately for Apple (and Samsung), the case isn't sealed, they still have to undergo a December 6th hearing in...

The Loop has just confirmed Apple has sent out media invites for a September 12th media event, to announce their highly anticipated next-generation iPhone: Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba...

Assuming the next-generation iPhone will follow suit with the two-toned design, we have a Chinese iPhone clone company all prepared to sue Apple over its sixth-generation iPhone design. Yes I am being completely serious, they revealed a knockoff functional 'iPhone 5' dubbed 'GooPhone' last week. With the massive amounts of iPhone leaks over the past month,...

We learned late last night that hacking firm Antisec had leaked out nearly one-million Apple device UDIDs to the public. The UDID is ultimately Apple's way of identifying each individual iOS device. The string of text is 40 characters long containing a mix of numbers and letters. The Antisec group claimed they hacked over 12 million...