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Apple pushed iOS 6 beta 2 to the developer community as an over the air (OTA) update a couple of days ago and today, folks at AppAdvice have pointed out one of 200+ brand new features introduced by Apple in the latest version of iOS which most of us might have overlooked. With iOS 6, users in Mail can...

Just days before last month's court-mediated meeting between Apple and Samsung CEOs, the Cupertino giant filed a new injunction against Samsung, requesting an immediate ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States. Well, it looks like Apple has just got its biggest victory yet against its Korean competitor, as U.S Judge Lucy Koh has issued a...

Today at the kickoff of Google I/O 2012, the company announced a new streaming media player device called the Nexus Q. The sphere-looking device costs $299 (it isn't available in Canada yet), has 16GB of storage, a dual core processor, runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and essentially will allow streaming of music, movies and...

According to MacMagazine (via MacRumors), the apps within Apple TV on iOS 6 beta can be rearranged like apps on iOS devices such as the iPhone. By holding down the centre select button on the Apple TV remote, on screen icons start to do the familiar 'jiggle' we have all been accustomed to. Here's a...

Are you a Facebook addict (or stalker)? If you find the iPhone app painfully slow, an update is coming soon that will transform the app into a much speedier one, according to Nick Bilton from the New York Times. He spoke with two anonymous Facebook engineers about a significant update coming this summer: I had the...

Friday is the five year anniversary of the original iPhone's first day it went on sale, and in that half-decade the sales numbers appear to be staggering, according to the latest report from Boston-based research firm, Strategy Analytics. "The iPhone portfolio has become a huge generator of cash and profit for Apple," said Neil Mawston, the...

Apple has just issued a press release to note it has launched the iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam: Apple® today announced the launch of the iTunes Store® in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and nine additional countries in Asia featuring an incredible selection of...

The jailbreak community is always coming up with great new ways to use our iPhones, iPod Toucches, and iPads. If you jailbreak your iDevice, you may be familiar the SMS app, biteSMS. This app can replace the default iMessage app to bring much more functionality. One of the great features of biteSMS is the "Quick...

Apple's North Carolina Data Centre The Reno Memo reports Apple has plans to invest $1 billion dollars over ten years to build a new data centre and business and purchasing centre. An upcoming Washoe County staff report notes the following: ”The prospective tenant, Apple, Inc…has stated the desire to construct and operate a new data...

  As previously rumoured, Apple has released a stand alone Podcasts app in the App Store. It is a one stop app, to listen to and watch all your favourite podcasts. Apple has done this to keep your podcasts separate from your Music app, making it easier to find your them. Similar to the iBooks...

A new smartphone app developed by Cheryl Brown Ovarian Outcomes Unit under supervision of Dr. Sarah Finlayson, a surgeon and researcher with the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at the B.C. Cancer Agency, allows ovarian cancer surgeons in B.C to track vital patient information in a database, CBC News reports. The app reportedly eliminates a long chart-review process where doctors had...

Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 6 to developers. With access to these beta versions of the firmware, developers have the chance to get their apps ready for the official release of iOS 6 this fall. Jailbreak developers need the same access to get their apps and tweaks ready, but they need the firmware...