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It's Tuesday, and once again we have a new 'Pick of the Week' from Starbucks. This time around it's a free movie rental, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. Previous weeks have alternated between apps and music, and this is the first time we've seen a free movie rental. Force of Nature was released...

Read It Later started five years ago back in 2007, and the service to 'read later' has amassed more than 4.5 million users since. The team realized their service had moved beyond saving articles and users had started to emphasize video. So to that extent, they made a major announcement on their blog today that...

The Pebble e-paper watch has made Kickstarter history as the most funded project ever, surpassing $3.3 million dollars in pledges with still 31 days to go. We told you about the project prior to it hitting $1 million in under 30 hours. The project clearly shows that innovation is rewarded on Kickstarter. Here's an email...

With the release of the iPad and the iBooks app, reading in iOS became a whole new experience. Folks with an iOS device could read ebooks in a whole new way. Some find the bright screen hard on the eyes, but for the most part reading on the iPad is a great experience. There has...

When it comes to speaker docks for your iOS devices there are a lot of choices. But I find most are boxy and look fairly similar. Edifier is changing the status quo with its Tick Tock Dock. It has that retro look, similar to old style alarm clocks. Right off the bat it catches your...

We've long heard whispers of free online storage being offered by Google, but now The Next Web is reporting a free service is set to launch next week. Google Drive will offer 5GB of free online storage, and would set to rival Dropbox (which currently offers 2GB of free online storage) primarily and even attempt...

Today is 4/16, the unofficial holiday for Foursquare users to get their 4sqDay badge. The social network also announced they have reached 20 million users and 2 billion check-ins. Check in anywhere today and you'll receive the badge and read the following text: In 2010, foursquare fans declared April 16 4sqDay (4/4^2 – nerds after...

  If you are at all familiar with jailbreaking an iOS device, you know Mobile Substrate is required to run pretty much any tweak you can get in Cydia. It is a support framework that many developers use to make their tweaks work in iOS. Mobile Substrate has just been updated to version 0.9.3997. This...

Earlier we heard rumours of French designer Philippe Starck working on a 'revolutionary' project with Apple, which the company denied. Starck has now confirmed to the WSJ (as noted by App Advice) he is indeed working on the yacht project he started with Steve Jobs, but it is being continued by his wife Laurene: A spokeswoman...

Alex Dunsmore of Kamloops, BC is refusing to pay his son's $1,400 Rogers bill, that was incurred while texting on an "unlimited" text plan. Dunsmore thought it would be okay to let his son send hundreds of texts, because his contract states he can send unlimited texts to anywhere in Canada. How the charges were...

Only a couple of days back, Apple released its own Flashback Removal Tool for OS X, making the world's most advanced operating system fully secure again and today, a new Java based trojan has been discovered by Kaspersky Labs expert Costin Raiu. The expert explains in a blog post that the trojan, which is known as "LuckyCat", takes advantage of...

A Beijing based group, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), is set to carry out a joint audit with Apple of one its supplier factories in China, regarding environmental pollution concerns. Wang Jing Jing, the vice director of IPE said that they will be working with Apple and an auditing firm hired to investigate the supplier's pollution controls, the...