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Meebo Messenger Reiterates the Service Will Shut Down on July 11th

Google acquired Meebo and all of its services back on June 4th, including its popular Messenger service. It quickly became known that Google was going to shut down the Meebo Messenger service, and today the team reiterated the closure in an email to its users and encouraged them to download chat logs: With Google's acquisition...

Kickstarter: Hone For iPhone 4S – Never Lose Your Keys Again [VIDEO]

Louis Gerbarg and Geoff Litwack from Los Angeles have just come up with a brand new Kickstarter project called the Hone which is a small low-energy Bluetooth device that works with iPhone 4S as well as the New iPad. Hone simply attaches to a keychain that lights up and audibly vibrates when triggered using an iOS app, so you...

Teen Developers at WWDC 2012 Enjoyed Skittles and Bean Bag Chairs

The Wall Street Journal details the stories of a few teen developers (out of the 150 free passes given out) that were treated to attend WWDC 2012 thanks to Apple. This year marked the inaugural opening of the event to 13-17 year old developers by Apple, part of their WWDC Student Scholarships. Phil Schiller, Apple's...

Do Turn by Turn Directions in Maps on iOS 6 Work in Canada?

Earlier we showed you a quick video preview of the new updated Siri coming in iOS 6, with tuned language support for Canadian English and French, along with local search support. We've had numerous queries asking about turn-by-turn directions in iOS 6 within the Maps app in Canada. Turn-by-turn directions appear within Maps, BUT... ...they...

iOS 6 – More New Features Uncovered

The first beta of iOS 6 has been out for a week now, and we are seeing more and more features come to light. Scott Forstall only showed us a few new features, but said there would be over 200 in the final release of iOS 6. Today, Cult of Mac is reporting they have found...