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A report by PennLive (via Cult Of Mac) tells the story of an obnoxious 11 year old boy who urinated on a cart full of of MacBooks in a Pennsylvanian school. The stupid kid apparently cost the Upper Allen Elementary School a whopping US $36,000. According to the source, the MacBook computers were damaged beyond repair. Way to go kid! Detailing from the source:...

RIM today kicked off their BlackBerry World developer's conference in Florida, and here they unveiled their "BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha developer testing device" for developers to test out the new BB10 interface. Here's what was unveiled in BlackBerry 10, seen as RIM's chance to get back into the smartphone game. The Verge went hands on...

A new report from Solutions Research Group notes Canadians have been quick to jump onto mobile banking apps, thanks to the explosion of smartphone ownership in Canada, which now numbers over 10 million, as documented in The Globe and Mail. We have numerous iPhone banking apps in Canada, with CIBC being one of the first...

For the past many years, Logitech has grown to earn a reputation of producing quality products at highly affordable prices. From computer peripherals to high-end surround systems, Logitech's products rarely fail to impress and this portable Mini Boombox bluetooth speaker is a pretty good example of one such product. Check out our full review after the...

Blocking the ads in your browser can help speed up your browsing experience, as pages will often load much faster. If you jailbreak your iPhone, you can get a tweak called "AdBlocker", that will help speed up mobile Safari, as well as other UIWebView based browsers and apps. It usually goes for $2.19, but is...

Update 1: The Leader Post reports an Apple Premium Reseller is coming, rather than an Apple Store, as confirmed by Cornwall Centre's marketing manager. An 'iWorld Connect' store will be opening, which is a child company of Westworld Computers, also known as Canada's largest independent Apple dealer. The location will be near The Bay. Saskatchewan,...

In a recent poll, pod2g asked the public whether he should save his latest jailbreak for iOS 6, or burn the 5 exploits he has right now on an iOS 5.1 jailbreak. Overwhelmingly, the vote seems to be, burn 'em all and release now! Pod2g has not commented on the results of the poll, but...

Last August textPlus was updated to introduce free texting to Canadians via the distribution of free phone numbers. They eventually revealed over 381,000 numbers were given out in three months. textPlus was great for free texting between textPlus friends--but what about calling? Now, textPlus Free Calls has been updated to introduce free calling between Canadian...

Tweetbot has released an update today for its iOS app that includes some new features. The swipe gestures have now offer an easy way to see tweet details and to navigate back to the timeline. Swipe right to left to see more details and vice versa to go back to the conversation. This makes it...

Ever wanted to grab an Element Case Vapor Pro or Vapor COMP for your iPhone 4/4S in your own choice of colors? Well now you can with the Element Case Design Studio, a custom online case designer for your favorite handset. The easy-to-use online tool allows you to custom design an Element Case using a multitude of color combinations...

Tony Fadell, the former Apple hardware designer has recently revealed that the iPhone was originally planned to receive a physical keyboard, until the very last moment when Apple decided to go with the touchscreen-only design. In an interview with The Verge over the weekend, he talked about working on eighteen generations of iPods as well as the creation of...

George Hotz, known to many of us as 'GeoHot' made his claim to fame by hacking and unlocking the original iPhone. Since then he has played an important hand in numerous jailbreaks such as limera1n and blackra1n, but more recently his ability to hack then once unpenetrable Sony PS3 supplanted his claim as one of...