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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...

Crimson LLC, makers of the popular Aluminum Frame Cases (AFC) for the iPhone 4/4S, have just announced new additions to their hot-selling product line. These additions include 3 new colors as well as 2 brand new finishes. The new colors are Anodized Orange, Anodized Pink and Anodized Purple while the new finishes are Chrome and 24K Gold Plate. As always, each AFC...

We first told you about Roam Mobility, the Vancouver-based company that offers affordable roaming solutions for Canadians heading down to the U.S. via their agreement with T-Mobile. Roam Mobility offers an easy way for Canadians to setup their own roaming plan prior to landing in the U.S. with cheaper plans versus roaming off the 'Big...

Steve Wozniak, whose development of the Apple I and Apple II computers became the basis for Apple, was the keynote speaker at a conference in Whistler put on by the International Council of Shopping Centres. Wozniak spoke about the future of internet saying that he's not optimistic the efforts to kill the flawed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)...

The award-winning mobile VoIP provider Vopium, known for its low-cost, high quality calling to more than 1 million users in 52 countries, has just pushed an update to its iPhone app which is now available for download in the App Store. The update takes Vopium app to version 2.1 which brings a couple of significant enhancements including an 'in-app payment...

An update has been updated for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak tool, Absinthe. The popular tool has by now exceeded over 1 million downloads in about three days. Version 0.3 has been released and has been updated to include a version for Linux users, as noted by Chronic Dev Team member @pimskeks. As...

Virgin America has branded one of their jumbo jets with a tribute to Steve Jobs. On the side of an A320 reads the quote "stay hungry, stay foolish", taken from The Whole Earth Catalog Jobs mentioned in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech. The airline told MacRumors the name was decided based on an internal...

It’s that time again. Tomorrow, Apple will hold its usual quarterly earnings call. This one will revolve around the Cupertino-based company’s revenue and sales over the course of the first quarter of 2012, expected to be a $37 billion dollar quarter. In advance of this, Philip Elmer-Dewitt has put together his list of analysts' expectations...

Evi is the new girl on the block and she wants to be your new voice-activated personal assistant. True Knowledge has released their version of the assistant in your pocket. It’s a tall order, creating an app with the ability to convert speech to text, understand the context of that text and apply it to...

The iPhone Dev Team has released some official A5 jailbreak numbers in detail, as noted in a recent post titled 'Welcome new A5 Jailbreakers!'. Earlier, we noted the numbers mentioned by Chronic Dev Team member @p0sixninja, and these numbers are similar but in more detail: Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have...