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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...
‘Clear’ Vaults into the #1 Paid App in the App Store: Is it Worth the Hype? [Review]
The much anticipated 'to do' app, Clear, has skyrocketed into the #1 paid app in the App Store in less than 24 hours. A product of Realmac Software, Milen, and Impending Inc., Clear has had unprecedented press coverage that has helped propel this simple app into the limelight. Does Clear live up to the hype?...
Jailbreak App ‘Display Recorder’ Updated with Audio Recording
As a blogger and app reviewer, I'm always looking for the best way to feature and show the things I'm writing about. Sure, you can get an affordable point-and-shoot that shoots pretty decent HD video, but the best way would be to actual record the display itself, like a screen cast. You could use the...
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...
Redsn0w Jailbreak Tool Updated to v0.9.10b5c
Redsn0w is a popular jailbreaking tool, maintained be The iPhone Dev Team. It has been used to jailbreak many iOS devices on various firmwares, over the past few years. The iPhone Dev Team have just released an update, with a few new bug fixes. Updates #5b and #5c: Version b5b fixes an issue with using...
Apple Says Future iOS Upgrade Will Require Explicit User Approval for Contact Data
Apple has broken its silence over the much publicized issue over the use of contact data by iOS apps. In a statement to AllThingsD, the company had this to say: “Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines,” Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AllThingsD....
Full Audio of Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs Presentation Now Online
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was the guest speaker at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. A passionate Tim Cook started off the afternoon by reiterating Apple's commitment to safe working conditions for supply chain employees. He was dead serious in his reiteration of Apple's commitment to improve working standards and transparency when it...
Apple Warns Telus and Other Carriers About Fake iPhones Being Returned
Yesterday a report surfaced over at MobileSyrup about an internal document from Telus noting its employees to be on the lookout for fake iPhones being returned at various Telus locations. Immediately what came to mind was the 'clay iPad in a box' return scam that hit stores such as Future Shop, Best Buy, Walmart and...