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If there's Sunday reading on your agenda today, you need to check out the eulogy for Steve Jobs written by his sister, Mona Simpson. Published today in the New York Times, it was read by Mona at Steve's memorial service at the Memorial Church of Standford University on October 16th. Here's an excerpt: When I...

iOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith has successfully ported a fully working version of Siri over to the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G. http://youtu.be/gHQyV9JQzSw http://youtu.be/p8GLwG4_qBY Steven Troughton-Smith has been working on this since the first day he got his hands on an iPhone 4S. He posted his progress on his Twitter feed (@stroughtonsmith), and now with...

It appears Apple has acquired C3 Technologies, a 3D mapping company based in Sweden, reports 9to5Mac: Sure enough, we have now learned Apple is now the owner of C3 Technologies. Sources say that C3 Technologies CEO Mattias Astrom, C3 Technologies CFO Kjell Cederstrand, and lead C3 Technologies Product Manager Ludvig Emgard are now working within...

Earlier this month The City of Vancouver released a free iPhone app that aims to increase voter turnout for the November 19th civic election. The app lists election-related information, such as, including election and pre-election dates, candidates’ biographies, will tell you what polling station to vote at, what ID is required, and how to vote by...

Not all but some iPhone 4S owners have been complaining about rapid battery drains both while in active use and in standby mode. Luckily though, I've not had such a problem with my handset. But now, it seems that the issue is actually quite serious as Apple engineers are reportedly contacting select iPhone 4S users to help them figure out...

According to an official statement on Friday, Facebook is shutting down Beluga social text messaging service (aka BelugaPods) which the company acquired back in March 2011. As reported by GigaOM, this move is not unexpected since Facebook now has its own dedicated Messenger app for iOS. Facebook Messenger was developed by the founders of Beluga who worked for...

One of the coolest features of iBooks is wireless bookmark syncing. If you're reading a book on your iPad, and lay down your bookmark--it should also magically appear on your iPhone or iPod touch. As described by Apple: iBooks will automatically remember where you left off each time you close a book or return to...

Today Samsung officially announced its financial results for the third-quarter, and while they didn’t release the number of smartphone units sold, that hasn’t stopped Strategy Analytics from declaring them the unit sales leader in smartphones. Strategy Analytics has compiled the third-quarter results of all smartphone manufacturers and stated that Samsung [has] becomes the world’s number one...

Nokia recently took the wraps off its latest iPhone 4S competitor, the Lumia 800 while Samsung is already claiming that its Galaxy S II is more powerful than Apple's latest iPhone. As folks at SlashGear got their hands on a Lumia 800 at Nokia World 2011 expo, they decided to pit Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone against Samsung Galaxy SII...

Jailbreaking your iOS devices is fun, but backing up all those jailbreak apps and tweaks manually isn't fun at all. There wasn't any simple backup / restore solution for Cydia apps available out there until PKGBackup was introduced. It not only provides the simplest, fully automated backup solution for all your jailbreak stuff including Cydia...

As we reported two weeks ago, SaskTel and MTS confirmed they would offer the iPhone 4S on October 28th, two weeks after the official launch. SaskTel's website shows the 16GB and 32GB models are available at the regular carrier subsidized prices of $159.99 and $269.99. The 64GB model currently is not available and is listed...

MuscleNerd from The iPhone Dev Team has just tweeted out an image that proves a preliminary iPhone 4S jailbreak exists. Don't take this picture as proof a public jailbreak is coming anytime soon. He notes there are still 'huge missing pieces' that prevents a release along with 'lots of work left'. We previously questioned the...