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Are you an Instagram fiend? It is by far the easiest way to upload and share pictures with your social networks. What makes Instagram great is that it's simple and easy to use. However, one downside is if you want to check out your Instagram feed you need to do it on your iOS device....

A brand new tweak called Belfry from famous iOS developer Ryan Petrich has just hit the Cydia store which enables jailbroken iPad / iPad 2 owners to install the 6 stock iPhone apps that were never added to the iPad. These native iPhone apps include Weather, Clock, Calculator, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Compass. The only downside is that...

Walter Isaacson quoted Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates in the official Steve Jobs biography as claiming Jobs “said a lot of very nice things about me,” while noting that he also said “a lot of tough things". In a recent interview with Yahoo! and ABC News (via 9to5Mac), Gates shared his final conversation with Steve Jobs and how his passing affected him. Interestingly,...

Are you addicted to Words With Friends? The tiled game is so addicting it got Alec Baldwin kicked off his flight. The game now boasts almost 15 million active users per month, and is a mega hit around the globe. Fast Company takes an in-depth look at how Words With Friends beat Scrabble in popularity...

Just a quick update for those wondering--you helped us win the 2011 Canadian Blog Award in the category for 'Best Science and Technology Blog'. Even though we posted about the final voting period two weeks after it started, the power of the iPhoneinCanada.ca community pulled through. The first round of voting took place last November,...

Apple today announced some historic numbers as it generated a $46 billion dollar quarter and sold 37 million iPhones. The total cash on hand sits at $97.6 billion, with no specific direction in what to do with it all. Can we expect to hear more good things from Apple? Well, according to a purported email...

Update 1: Here's what Barack Obama had to say about Steve Jobs tonight in his reference to the tech sector: "An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work. It means we should support everyone...

Apple reported their 2012 Q1 earnings today, a record $46 billion dollar quarter. During the earnings call, Apple reported they now have $97.6 billion dollars in cash. The last quarter earned Apple $17.5 billion in cash during their record quarter. Apple clearly emphasized they are 'actively discussing' the uses of their cash balance, with nothing...

Apple has posted their 2012 Q1 earnings prior to their earnings call, and holy smokes is it a doozy. The company reported a record quarter of $46.33 billion in sales, and record profit of $13.06 billion, with international sales taking into account 58% of the revenue. Apple predicted they would hit $37 billion in sales...

Update 1: This new cancellation policy only affects customers who signed on after January 22, 2012. Existing customers aren't included, until they enter a new term. == Rogers has updated their cancellation policy as previously noted and a new blog post details the changes on the Rogers Redboard. We now see the emergence of new...

The last time we heard from Geohot, aka George Hotz, he had just started a job at Facebook. Hotz's claim to fame was being one of the first people to jailbreak the original iPhone, plus more recently being sued by Sony (they settled the case out of court). Business Insider's Boonsri Dickinson caught up with Hotz at...

A new report from Gartner notes the rankings of OEMs and their purchase of semiconductor chips in 2011. Guess who topped the list last year? Yes, your favourite company, Apple. They spent $17.2 billion in 2011, a 34.6% growth compared to the $12.8 billion spent in 2010. Apple just edged out Samsung (their growth was...