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ShopCatch is a new app with one purpose--to bring you in-store deals from shopping malls across Canada. The app takes advantage of your location to offer deals via Push Notifications, plus includes maps and store directories too. The app allows for social media sharing of deals, plus the ability to submit your own tips. The...

Electronic Arts (EA) has a 100 games listed in the iTunes Store that range from console to iOS ports (FIFA, NBA JAM) as well as exclusive iOS content (Max & the Magic Marker, Fantasy Safari). Today EA has created a Daily Deals page that highlights many of their most popular games by offering deep discounts. Updated daily, the site will feature...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in Bangalore last week to give a talk to up-and-coming entrepreneurs about Apple. While there, he gave a great interview to Indian television program Sunday MIDDAY. As always, everyone’s favorite geek had interesting thoughts to share, particularly on the state of todays mobile industry. Woz likened today’s competing smartphones (read as Android, Blackberry,...

People will do anything to get Siri onto non-iPhone 4S devices, and we saw that with the tweak Siri0us (which was ultimately removed). This time around, H1Siri has emerged by a group of hackers in China called the CD-Dev Team. This hack brings full-fledged Siri to your iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4th generation on iOS...

It appears iOS 5.0.1 has some WiFi issues for some people. I have received a few emails about this and I've experienced it lately on my own iPhone 4S. All signs point to being connected to WiFi, but no data is being transferred. At first I thought I was going crazy. A reset of network...

The ongoing series of patent wars between two of the world's biggest technology giants, Apple and Samsung first began with Apple having alleged that Samsung Galaxy’s smartphones and Tablets infringed its design patents. Among the ten countries in which Apple had initially filed suits against Samsung, it won in Germany and Netherlands. Moving on to Australia, Apple succeeded in banning Samsung’s Tablet...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has launched a unique online Steve Jobs exhibit today which showcases the life and times of Apple co-founder, but with a twist. The exhibit is called Steve Jobs: First, Last, One more thing... and can be accessed here featuring objects from the permanent collection of the CHM which holds over 100,000 artifacts including 3,000 Apple-related items. The...

Apple has had a handful of patent-violation lawsuits in recent months which made one thing pretty clear to us that Cupertino's patent policy is very territorial. However, a recent article by The Verge points out a totally different scenario. It seems that Apple has in fact licensed its iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, especially...

The handy SHSH blobs extraction tool a.k.a TinyUmbrella has just been updated to version 5.1.00 which adds iOS 5.1 beta 1 support. The latest release of TinyUmbrella is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Until now, there is no way to downgrade back to an iOS 5.x firmware even...

Developer Steve Stroughton-Smith has revealed Apple's code names for iOS firmware all the way back from iPhone OS 1.0. The code names are from the book iOS Forensic Analysis: 1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly) 1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest) 2.0: Big Bear 2.1: Sugarbowl 2.2: Timberline 3.0: Kirkwood 3.1: Northstar 3.2: Wildcat...

By now, you must have seen tons of Siri related videos which can be found all over the web showing what can be achieved when Siri is combined with SiriProxy, for instance locking / unlocking and starting a car, fully controlling a television and even controlling third-party iOS apps. Now, this developer named Mark Hodder has combined SiriProxy with ioBridge, a small module...

If you're a frequent iTunes customer, here's a limited-time deal you cannot miss. You can buy an iTunes card for 25% off at Safeway. The offer is valid all across Canada. We're told that if you buy 2 of their 3 x $10 packs you get $15 off. This also beats Future Shop's deal who...