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Facebook has introduced a new featured in its iOS app and on the web called Find Friends Nearby, a tool to enable you to locate people you know nearby, notes TechCrunch. Facebook engineer Ryan Patterson created the app--he responded in the comments to clarify the feature and remarked the it was initially named 'Friendshake': I built...

Back in February, Apple acquired application discovery platform Chomp for a reported $50 million dollars. Chomp's specialty was in app discovery and now it is being reported by TechCrunch their algorithms have started to make their way into the App Store, based on the feedback from certain developers seeing a spike in downloads for certain...

U.S. Judge Richard Posner pulled the plug on the ongoing lawsuit between Apple and Motorola this Friday, reports FOSS Patents. The lawsuit in which Apple was asserting four patents and Motorola was suing over one patent, was dismissed by Judge Posner who recently canceled a jury trial and indicated his inclination to dismiss the case. However, as pointed...

The New York Times has an in-depth look at Apple Store retail employees and their wages compared to the profits they continue to reap for Apple. It was recently noted Apple had committed new wage increases for its retail employees. By the standards of retailing, Apple offers above average pay — well above the minimum...

This morning London welcomed the grand opening of its first Apple Store at Masonville Place at 10AM. The first 1000 visitors received a limited edition t-shirt, and as from the photos we've received it looks like there were lines as usual for this big event. Check out the pics below: Anyone wait in line this...

  We have seen a few iOS 6 features ported over to iOS 5, via some Cydia tweaks and themes, and today we have another. Scott Forstall introduced iOS 6 at WWDC 2012 and one of the many new features coming is the Twitter and Facebook widgets in the notification center. This is a quick...

Occasionally, there are times when you do not want your iPhone to shut down. If your iPhone is stolen or lost, you can track it down with find my iPhone, but not if the thief turns it off. This is also important if you have a tethered jailbreak. You definitely don't want your iPhone turning...

Venerable iOS game Fruit Ninja is celebrating its two year anniversary and part of the festivities means you can get the game for FREE, via their website. All you have to do is click 'redeem' in the top right hand corner of the site, enter your email and a promo code will be emailed to...

Looks like new Rogers customers signing up from June 21st to the 24th are in for a treat--your activation fee will be waived up until midnight on the last day, as noted by MobileSyrup. The activation fee will eventually be credited to your bill. The following plans are ineligible: Talk and Text Family Plans $45...

A little while back, there were "leaked" photos of the next iPhone circulating the web, but were quickly identified to be 3D renderings from designer Martin Hajek. We here at iPhoneinCanada reported these images as leaked photos, but quickly updated the article once we found out the truth. Martin is back, and has taken his...

iTunes Connect notified developers late yesterday evening via email the App Store had been expanded to 32 more territories around the world. Places such as Albania, Fiji, Mongolia, the Seychelles and Nepal will now have their own place in the App Store, bringing the grand total to 155 countries. Apps know no boundaries. The full...

For those that have watched the WWDC 2012 keynote in its entirety, you may remember the developer highlight video Tim Cook showed the audience at the beginning of the event. The video highlighted numerous incredible apps, and one family that was profiled included Renena Joy, a speech and language pathologist in education, and her daughter...