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On Sunday the iPhone Dev Team reported progress on the iPhone 4S baseband unlock as 'very promising', and tonight @musclenerd has tweeted the iPhone 4S baseband bootrom has been dumped. This is a significant step in producing an unlock for the iPhone 4S, and will most likely come as an update to the unlocking tool...

As noted by ifoAppleStore, Apple Stores are participating in World AIDS Day efforts, to take place on December 1st. Retail stores will focus their attention on (RED) products that contribute towards the AIDS fight in Africa: According to sources, on Thursday a select group of Specialists will be wearing and promoting the (RED) iPod nano,...

If you have an Apple Store in your city, consider yourself lucky. Here in Vancouver, we have two locations (with a rumoured fifth location coming) for a population of roughly 578,000 people, and two more in neighbouring Richmond and Burnaby. Each location is no more than 25 minutes away from the next. You can never...

comScore has released their Canadian mobile report for September 2011. Canada now has 20.1 million cell subscribers aged 13 and older, and 8 million of those users have smartphones (40%), an increase of 7% compared to March of 2011. Samsung is the Leading OEM for Smartphones and Regular Phones In terms of OEM hardware leaders...

Microsoft is three years behind the competition and is trying to erase consumers bad memories of previous devices. A few weeks back they built a giant Windows Phone in New York’s Herald Square, and earlier this week they launched a cheeky HTML5 based mobile site that invites Android and iPhone users to sample its Windows Phone...

Siri is being accused of having an antiabortion agenda -- at least in New York City and Washington, D.C.. When asked where to get an abortion, the beta personal assistant only produces results for pro-life centres or tells users that it has no knowledge of abortion clinics. Megan Carpentier, executive editor of The Raw Story, reports that Siri...

Update 1: Reuters reports these claims have been denied by NTT Docomo: An NTT Docomo Inc (9437.T) spokesperson denied on Thursday that the company had reached a basic agreement with Apple Inc APPL.O on selling its popular iPhone in Could we see an iPhone with LTE capability next year? Macotakara points us to a report...

Steven Levy, currently writing for Wired, has published an in-depth look at his 48 page manuscript interview with Steve Jobs, that took place back in November of 1983 (he was writing for Rolling Stone): I can’t find the tape of my first interview with Steve Jobs. At some point in the past 28 years—the conversation...

The Opena is the world's first iPhone case with a slide out bottle opener. The case itself is made from a durable and protective hard polycarbonate material. Since the case has a slide out design, you only need to take it out when the beer arrives. The Opena is compatible with all Phone 4 models (GSM...

Back in August, Apple won a patients violation suit against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia leading to a ban in tablet's sale across the country. Today, the Australian courts have removed this ban as a result of which the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be going on sale in Australia tomorrow. Apparently, the court has allowed...

Couple of days back, a tweak named Siri0us was released on Cydia which allowed owners of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch to use Siri dictation feature on their jailbroken handsets. Today, Siri0us developer Eric Day announced on Twitter that the tweak has been pulled from the Cydia since Nuance has denied him the rights to...

According to Bloomberg, the two largest app providers, Apple and Google, will not participate in a new mobile app rating system created by CTIA-The Wireless Association. Participating in the new ratings system are Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular Corp. Of those, only Microsoft, AT&T and Verizon Wireless operate their own app stores. The voluntary program will be operated...