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More and more cable companies are offering iPhone apps to allow customers to control their PVRs. The Telus Optik TV remote was released last Fall, and was eventually updated for iOS 5 last October. However, customers still reported issues with the app crashing incessantly even with the iOS 5 update. Just yesterday, Telus released a...

USA Today reports on increasing rumours of an upcoming Apple 'iTV', alluding to the possibility of something appearing at upcoming CES, which was rumoured before. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak chimed in about a possible TV: "I do expect Apple to make an attempt...since I expect the living room to remain a center for family...

Heads up guys! @Notcom has just updated his handy SHSH blobs extraction tool TinyUmbrella for Mac and Windows bringing support for the iPhone 4S. With TinyUmbrella 5.10.04 you can save SHSH blobs for iPhone 4S 5.0.1 build 9A406 in addition to all previously supported iOS devices. It is highly likely that an untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for A5...

Forbes contributor Caleb Melby and JESS3 CEO Jesse Thomas launched their much anticipated illustrated novel, The Zen of Steve Jobs last month. The comic book takes a closer look at the relationship Steve Jobs had with the Zen Buddhist, Kobun Chino Otogawa, with a mixture of fact and fiction: Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who...

We're onto Day 10 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas and today's offering is the game Hell's Kitchen, starring the short tempered chef, Gordon Ramsay. Here's the iTunes description: You and a friend can experience the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere simultaneously! Now blue-tooth enabled, battle head to head in an arcade style kitchen challenge! Hell’s...

Rovio Mobile’s Ville Heijari has told AllThingsD that the total number of downloads for their three games i.e Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, touched a whopping 6.5 million on Christmas Day setting a new record for the multi-platform smashing hit franchise. Even more interesting to note is that this number approximately equals the total number of smartphone...

Jeff Broderick previously released those beautiful easy to save iOS shortcuts for iOS 5.0, and now he's back with another cool tweak. Called QuickWiFi, it allows you to easily share your network credentials by providing visitors with a verified WiFi profile to install on their iOS devices or Mac. All you have to do is...

Further information has been provided by @pod2g in regards to the status of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak. A few hours ago pod2g sent out the following on twitter: I made a step today for the A5. With some luck we could expect a release in a week. Yes, upgrade...

With rumours swirling regarding Apple's upcoming media event this month in New York City, further information has surfaced about what could be detailed at this event by Clayton Morris from Fox News: This event will focus on iTunes University and Apple in education I learned of the event back in September when it was originally scheduled for...

Day 9 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas has arrived, and after today there's only three days left to go. Today's freebie consists of four singles from the Vancouver punk-pop band, Hedley. Here are the songs available plus a video: Gunnin' For the Nights I Can't Remember Perfect Beautiful Video: Perfect   The runner...

2011 was not a kind year for Canada's tech prodigy, Research in Motion. RIM's Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis doubted the iPhone when it launched in 2007. They made claims about how we don't need apps for the web and blamed iPhone data demands for network congestion. RIM couldn't even setup the App World...

Is the Nokia Lumia 800 ready to turn the company around? This latest device from Nokia runs Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and was recently put to a browser showdown with the iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0) and iPhone 4 (on iOS 4.3). The following video, posted by YouTube user 359gsm, puts all three phones through a...