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A couple of students from University of New Brunswick have developed a new iPhone app which alerts the municipal officials of potholes in Fredericton and other cities of Canada, reports CBC. The developers of the app namely Coady and Drew Cameron who are fourth year engineering students and have created the app with their friend Mark Feero, believe that their Totalpave app should...

In a recent report by Mercury News (via 9to5Mac), it appears that Google may be fined by U.S. Federal Trade Commission over bypassing iOS Safari’s privacy settings and continuing to track users without their consent. Even though Google has already disabled the code responsible for such tracking, FTC is still looking deep into the matter and is planning to...

As noted by TNW, Apple has pushed out a couple of new TV ads highlighting Siri for iPhone 4S on its three major U.S carrier partners Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. Most interesting thing about the new ads is that they feature Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. The ads were aired during ESPN's SportsCenter this afternoon with several spots...

Greenpeace has released a report (as noted by AppleInsider) that targets the environmental impact of the growing number of massive data centres that store our data online in the 'cloud'. Apple is one of the companies criticized, and is included in one of the key findings of the study to use dirty energy: Three of the...

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...