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PayPal has announced their foray into the mobile payment solution by introducing PayPal Here. A credit card dongle plugs into the iPhone's headset jack, and the initial rollout of this new payment system includes Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Hong Kong. Here are the details: PayPal Here comes with our world-class fraud management capabilities, and...

If you are a blogger on the go, you most likely have used the Wordpress app for iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad. Wordpress has made some great improvements to the app since the initial release. They have just pushed out a new update that brings compatibility for iOS 5.1, and new high resolution graphics for The...

Just moments ago, famous iOS hacker Stefan Esser a.k.a @i0n1c who is known for his untethered jailbreak exploit for iOS 4.3.1, has just published screenshots of his iPad 2 showing a successful A5 jailbreak on iOS 5.1. The screenshot clearly shows Cydia running on an iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 firmware installed. However, he hasn't given any details...

Last night, Sparrow for iPhone hit the App Store for $2.99, but the highly anticipated email client was released without one major feature--push notifications. If you're shaking your head, you're not alone. Push was included in its beta versions for testers, but pulled by Apple because the Sparrow team was caught using an API reserved...

A couple of weeks back when Apple sent out official invitations for the new iPad launch event, its stock (AAPL) climbed to a new lifetime high taking the company's market capital to over $500 Billion. Today, AAPL touched the $600 mark for the first time ever as trading opened this morning. It did however come down to $594 by...

GeoHot, the genius behind the original iPhone jailbreak, was arrested today for possessing marijuana while he was driving to the annual SXSW conference in Austin. On his way to give a talk at SXSW, he reportedly had to pass through a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca where the Department of Homeland Security had drug dogs that...

Update 1: Sparrow is now available in Canada. There's no push, but our Boxcar tutorial will help you work around that. Also, Exchange/POP accounts are not supported, only IMAP. == Sparrow for iPhone is slowly propagating worldwide across all the App Stores, as the highly anticipated iPhone mail client has finally been released. Originally created...

Apple preceded their new iPad announcement and debuted a new version of the second generation Apple TV, updated to support 1080p streaming, but at the same $99US price (Canada now sells the new Apple TV for $109, a $10 price drop!). New features include an updated user interface (also available to second generation users via...

Canadian advertising and PR firm Taxi yesterday implemented a creative marketing plan to advertise its iPhone app, Pothole Season. The app is meant to harness the power of the social community and turn reporting potholes on the roads of Montreal into a game, and thus allowing the city to fix them as the weather starts...

If you've been waiting to get you own copy of VMWare Fusion 4, now is the time to do so as MacUpdate has bundled the app alongside 11 other Mac apps for only $49.99, as part of the latest MacUpdate bundle promo. Here are the total 12 Mac apps you'll receive, for just $49.99: VMWare...

The federal government has made a huge announcement this afternoon, as they have made changes to allow foreign ownership of wireless companies in Canada, with an upcoming change to the Telecommunications Act, as announced by Industry Minister Christian Paradis. This will allow smaller companies gain access to more capital to grow and compete: The federal government...

Following the introduction of new Apple TV with 1080p playback support, Apple pushed 1080p video to the iTunes Store, essentially doubling the number of pixels from the previously offered 720p content. For those wondering how does iTunes' HD 1080p content compare with the Blu-ray Disc's video in terms of quality, folks at Ars Technica have published a...