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Previously featured on Gizmodo, 'Sprd The Note' app allows you to transfer any song from your iPhone / iPod touch's Music library as well as any personal recording, to another iPhone or iPod touch over Wifi and email. All you need to do is import the songs you want to share into the app right from...

If you want to have some fun this Christmas, check out Sympatico's Magic Santa iPhone app. This cool app lets you create personalized videos tailored to specific answers you provide for recipients. The information you provide shows up in the final video itself, and looks pretty awesome. You can even include pictures into the video...

Prior to the iPhone 4S announcement, Rogers informed customers about the option to pre-order the device through their online reservations system. Devices would be available on a first-come, first-serve basis dependent on stock, and emails would be dispatched to customers informing them when they could pick up their phone. The reservations system resulted in long...

Health Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Best Buy have issued a recall on Rocketfish iPhone battery packs as they pose a fire hazard. Sold at both Best Buy and Future Shop from April 2010 to September 2011, there have been instances of the cases overheating during charging in the U.S., but not...

Apple is looking to get into the business of unique device identification, Patently Apple reports, filing a patent that details plans for a "digital handshake" capable of transferring data between nearby devices. The patent application, published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today, preposes using a camera that could identify barcodes or invisible ink that would allow devices to recognize...

Last week Samsung posted a series of commercials (see here and here) that pokes fun at iPhone owners. Today they're continuing the campaign on their US Facebook page with a series of graphics that suggests the iPhone is dated and uncool. Samsung clearly wants their message to go viral. One graphic illustrates a comparison between “Cutting edge” (their Galaxy S II) and...

Apple has issued a statement over Carrier IQ, and in a note to AllThingsD, they mentioned Carrier IQ was removed from iOS 5: “We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must...

Rovio early this morning updated Angry Birds Seasons (the last update was for Halloween), and released a new trailer to their YouTube channel. This latest update includes new holiday levels and continues with the themed updates for the popular $0.99 cent app. In total, Angry Birds has exceeded 500 million downloads. What's New In Version 2.1.0...

The developers of Infinity Blade, Chair Entertainment, are back a year later with Infinity Blade II which is now available for download in the App Store for $6.99. The game which is often quoted to be "a showcase piece", is a technically and visually stunning title that consistently delivers eye-popping stuff. In screenshots, the game might look indistinguishable from...

Update 1: Here is what the 'Big 3' have to say about Carrier IQ: Bell says it does not “install or support Carrier IQ or similar programs,” Rogers tweeted “we have investigated and Carrier IQ is not on any of our devices,” and Telus says “it's not something we've installed on any of our devices...

References of 'Carrier IQ', the infamous spware, have just been found in Apple's iOS. For those who aren't aware, 'Carrier IQ' is the rootkit that Carriers put on many of their phones to monitor customer usage.  As previously discovered by a security researcher, 'Carrier IQ' monitors keystrokes and sends them back to its own servers. Luckily...

Robin Williams is one of those comedians that has wit as quick as lightning. During his appearance on Ellen in late November to promote his new movie Happy Feet Two, he gave his best impersonation of Siri, everybody's favourite personal assistant. When Ellen brought up the subject of Siri and the iPhone, Robin went off...