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iOS 5.1 ‘Pre-GM’ Leak Reveals New Camera Shortcut and Japanese Siri?

Brazilian blog BlogdoiPhone has leaked screenshots that show a version of iOS 5.1 pre-GM that shows a new screen for the camera shortcut on the homescreen and also further evidence of Siri's support for Japanese, which was previously noticed by the assistant itself. Currently the shortcut to the iPhone's camera from the lockscreen is to...

Apple Messages Beta First Impressions [Review]

Part of Apple's announcement of OS X Mountain Lion for developers today was also the availability of the download of Messages Beta, which has the following features: Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch (iOS 5 required). Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or...

Fido Value Packs and Caller ID Prices Have Increased

Fido recently made a slight change to the prices of their Value Packs and Caller ID. The Fido website was quietly updated about a week ago with increases of $1 to Value Packs and Caller ID. Value Packs are now stand at $11 and $16, whereas Caller ID as a standalone feature is now $8...

How Canadians Use Technology to Manage their Relationships [INFOGRAPHIC]

A new Rogers Innovation Report has been published today and this time around, Rogers takes a look at how Canadians are using technology to manage their personal relationships. The info graphic below shows women are better communicators in the digital world and the most connect age group are young adults from age 18-24. Check out...

iBookstore Publishers Get More App Store Like Features

Publishers that use Apple's iBookstore received a letter from iTunes Connect saying that they have rolled out some updates and changes. The most welcome improvement for publishers is most likely the ability to issue up to 50 promo codes to book reviewers, much like App Store developers can for their apps. Amongst the other changes...

Messages Beta Download for OS X Released by Apple

Apple has just released a beta version of Messages for Mac, promising a taste of what's to come from OS X Mountain Lion.   Messages replaces iChat and brings all of the functionality you get with iMessage on your iOS device, right onto your Mac, and as with iMessage, the feature list is a follows:...

Round Up of OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview First Looks

As noted earlier, Apple allowed a few select tech bloggers and media attend their preview of OS X Mountain Lion, (note that it's no longer 'Mac' OS X) a meeting that occurred last week in New York City. Here is round up of their early reviews: Daring Fireball The Loop Macworld The Verge CNET AllThingsD...

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Preview to Developers [Update]

Apple has announced this morning a developer preview of its next release of its operation system, OS X Mountain Lion. This new OS is set to debut in the Mac Store in late summer 2012, and will essentially bring further iOS integration to the Mac. Apple's website already has a preview page up for OS...

Telus 6GB Data Promo Emerges While Rogers 6GB Data Plan Ends Feb. 28th

Rogers re-introduced the coveted 6GB/$30 data plan last Fall and was set to expire on February 6th. It now appears to have been silently extended past that date and will now 'disappear' on February 28th, as seen on an internal memo as sent in by Technapedia: Just four days ago Bell brought back the 6GB data...