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A recent survey by PayPal Canada has noted more than 70% of Canadians are ready to go 'cashless'. The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing on behalf of PayPal Canada, revealed 71% of Canadians are okay with never having to handle cash again for purchases, up 27% from 2011. A quarter of respondents noted they already...

Dropbox has released an update to their iOS app to introduce automatic photo and video uploads over 3G/WiFi. By choosing to uploading your photos automatically to Dropbox, you'll be able to earn up to 3GB of extra storage in 500MB increments. Other new features include a gallery view for your photos, and the ability to...

Pregnancy is a special time, but it can also be very stressful over the course of the nine months. A Canadian made product can help alleviate some of the concerns and fears. It's called FetalBeats. It's your own personal fetal heartbeat monitor that works with your iOS devices. Hearing your unborn child's heartbeat for the first...

Telus continues to broadcast its commitment to expand its 4G LTE network across Canada. Manitoba is the latest province the company will spend $7 million in to build the infrastructure for their 4G LTE network. “TELUS’ $7 million investment will enhance our world-class wireless network for Manitobans living and working in the province,” said Michael...

Yesterday we showed you a video of Siri's new local search capabilities in Canada on iOS 6, and today we're going to take a look at the differences between Apple Maps and Google Maps. The latter was removed in iOS 6 and replaced by Apple's own mapping solution, a combination of technologies from acquisitions C3...

Nokia has announced today that it is going to shut some research and development projects including a manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland and research facilities in Burnaby, B.C. and Ulm, Germany, as the company plans to lay off 10,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013, reports Bloomberg. Nokia said that these cuts and closures will result in...

We've previously seen photos of Ashton Kutcher already growing hair to look more like Steve Jobs for his role of Steve in an upcoming indie pic titled “jOBS” and now, a few more actors have been caught on camera while filming for the movie in Steve Jobs’ childhood home (via 9to5Mac). Filming of the biopic started last month and is expected to cover Apple and Steve Jobs’ life...

In less than 24 hours after Apple releasing the first developer’s beta release of iOS 6, Dev-Team’s @MuscleNerd jailbroke the latest iOS release by confirming a successful tethered iOS 6 beta jailbreak on his iPod touch 4G. Today, an updated version of Redsn0w jailbreak tool has been released exclusively for the developers which supports tethered iOS 6 beta jailbreak on A4 devices. Redsn0w 0.9.13dev1...

This is one of those stories that is really hard to believe. This YouTube user, by the name of "Bubble Wrap", claims to have built an iOS emulator for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The video is quite convincing, but it just looks too good to be true. This emulator is apparently only for apps and games....

iOS 6 was just unveiled yesterday, and we already have iOS 6 themes hitting Cydia. The UI of iOS 6 doesn't differ too much from the current iOS, but one of the aspects that has changed, is the dialler, in the Phone app. Today, you can get this new dialer with this new Winterboard theme....

Apple announced at WWDC 2012 Siri would be getting a huge list of updates, along with tuned support for Canadian English and French to go with local search support, something we didn't get with the debut of the iPhone 4S. Here's a brief video below of Siri on iOS 6 with full support for restaurants,...

Scott Forstall mentioned on stage at WWDC 2012 that numerous automobile manufacturers have agreed to implement a new wireless feature called Eyes Free. This allows for drivers to speak to Siri and perform other actions, built into the setup of the car. Fast Company spoke with numerous car makers noted within Forstall's presentation, such as BMW,...