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The App Store hit 25 billion app downloads this year and once again Apple offered up a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the lucky winner, which turned out to be Chunli Fu from China. Now, it turns out Apple has flown the lucky winner from Qingdao (home of the Tsingtao brewery--yes, that beer) to Beijing...

Looks like some Starbucks locations have put out this week's App 'Pick of the Week' one day early. Last week we saw a single from Paul McCartney, and this time around it's one that all golf nuts will love (including myself), Golfplan with Paul Azinger. Golfplan retails for $4.99 in the App Store and features...

Apple is offering a new standard for SIM to which they hold patents called the nano-SIM. These nano-SIM cards would be thinner and smaller then the current micro-SIM cards. Apple's plans to introduce a smaller SIM card have been widely known. Fosspatents has a source that has shown them a letter from Apple to the...

The Inside iTunes team is part of Apple.com that details news updates, and tips from anything related to iTunes. Their newest site update notes the new features in iBooks 2.1, such as how to highlight in 2.1: New features in iBooks 2.1. In addition to the pleasures of reading sharply detailed text via the Retina display on the...

Tim Cook met with Chinese government officials in Beijing on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal: A spokeswoman said Mr. Cook— who is on his first trip to China since becoming chief executive of the Cupertino, Calif., company— "had great meetings with Chinese officials today." "China is very important to us and we look...

When it comes to Angry Birds, you simply cannot guess how many record breaking numbers this massively hit game franchise is going to achieve. The latest iteration of the game i.e Angry Birds Space, which was released on March 22nd for iOS and Mac OS X on their respective App Stores as well as for PC...

The 2012 'One More Thing' iOS conference is set to take place on May 25-26, in Melbourne, Australia, and marks the second year of the event. This year, there will be the main conference alongside two separate mini-conferences that will focus on code and design. The line up of 'One More Thing' features an impressive...

A website named iPhoneception has come up with a harmless but funny iPhone pranklet (via TUAW) which can easily be installed on just about any iOS device you can get your hands on this April Fool's day, unless it is locked with a Passcode. Best part is that you don't even need an Apple ID to add...

Apple has given the 'Great Canadian Apps' section of the App Store a light makeover to further highlight the best and most popular apps for Canadians. The new design of this app section now has a black background with red coloured font, which provides a more distinct 'Canadian' feel. The section is described as follows:...

Steve Jobs has been named the 'Greatest Entrepreneur of our Time,' beating out others such as the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Here's how Fortune describes Jobs: Though he could be abusive and mean-spirited to people who threw themselves into their work on his behalf, Steve Jobs has been our generation's quintessential entrepreneur. Visionary. Inspiring....

Canadian iOS hacker iH8sn0w tweeted that he has found a way to restore A5 devices to an earlier firmware. This is quite significant, as it was previously only possible to downgrade to a 4.x.x firmware and not an earlier 5.x.x firmware. Downgrading is used in a case where you have accidentally, or out of necessity,...

TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has put together teams to review apps and automatically reject them if they are accessing device UDIDs. A device's UDID (Unique Device Identification) is used by many app developers to track usage of their apps, and better determine further development of their products. It is some mobile ad companies only...