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Turns out Rogers is officially the world's worst internet throttler based on research derived from the initiative known as the Measurement Lab (MLab), backed by Google. Results of the study reveal that based out of all the internet providers on earth, Rogers throttles internet more than any other ISP out there, notes TorrentFreak. As we've...

Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs hit the iBookstore earlier this week with some small hiccups. MacWorld is reporting that a small number of customers who downloaded the iBook are suffering from formatting problems, rendering some of the pages illegible and causing some of the photos not to load. An email was recently sent out...

A new Volkswagon Beetle is coming to Canada, and there's a new augmented reality campaign to introduce it. The campaign consists of billboards in Toronto's Dundas Square, posters on bus shelters throughout Toronto and Vancouver, and other traditional print-based media for the rest of Canada. The app is a free download. Then all you have to...

If you haven't figured it out already, iOS 5 enables native support for the Emoji keyboard (instead of previously downloading an app, or installing a tweak from Cydia), to allow users access to the plethora of neat little emoticons. To do so, just go to: General-->International-->Keyboards-->Add New Keyboard-->Emoji After you've added the Emoji keyboard, or...

The Apple TV rumours keep on coming!     When it was revealed that Jobs declared he'd "finally cracked” the secret to building an easy-to-use television set, and said it would have "the simplest user interface you could imagine", many commentators assumed that he was referring to Apple’s plans to build a full-fledged television. But, according...

If you haven't already purchased the Steve Jobs biography from the iBookstore or Amazon.ca, you can get a fantastic deal from Costco for $21.97. This is much cheaper than the Canadian cover price of $37.00, and beats the Amazon.ca price of $23. The Steve Jobs biography was released on Monday (and earlier at some outlets...

Last month we told you Adobe was developing Carousel, a perfect Lightroom alternative for iOS devices which would allow users to access their entire photo library on any iPhone, iPod, iPad or a Mac computer with seamless photo syncing across all these devices. Today, the company has released native iOS and Mac clients for Carousel which can be downloaded for...

A handful of hypothetical stories have been published all over the web regarding why Steve Job's car did not have a license plate. But iTWire claims to have finally uncovered the truth. In a one hour encounter with CTO of Entrust Jon Callas, who has also worked at Apple in the past as a senior security officer,...

Update 1: Congrats to our winner JoeOaky! Thanks to everyone for entering this contest. Stay tuned for more contests in the future! Did you get a chance to check out our review of the JVC UX-VJ3 iPhone/iPad speaker dock? Lucky for you, we've teamed up with JVC Canada to offer a unit up for grabs...

The Weather Network's first iPhone app was called WeatherEye, but now the channel has relaunched its app with a massive update. The difference? It's not through an update to the WeatherEye app, but it comes via a new self-titled app called The Weather Network. One of the newest features includes a 'follow me' feature that...

Roger’s latest quarterly report notes that they “activated and upgraded approximately 609,000 smartphones” that were “predominantly iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices." It's not all good news, as the report goes on to note that Rogers added 74,000 new subscribers to its post-paid operations, which is a significant drop from 108,000 added in the previous quarter....

In a recent article published in Fortune, Steve Jobs' chronicler Brent Schlender has published several personal stories from 25 years of covering Apple and its late co-founder, offering a unique look at how Steve Jobs interacted with the media. The article tells stories Schlender says he "was never able to tell, either because they would...