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Apple Blocks iOS Settings Shortcuts in iOS 5.1 Beta

If you have enjoyed the beautiful iOS settings shortcuts designed by @brdrck, you might want to avoid iOS 5.1 beta. The latest beta release of iOS has resulted in these shortcuts no longer working properly.   In our conversations with Jeff, he notes this block could be a beta issue, and that the final build...

Pizza Pizza iPhone App Hits 111,111 Orders Placed

The popular pizza ordering app from Pizza Pizza has reached a milestone--over 111,111 orders placed since the launch of their iPhone app six months ago. In that short period of time, the app has received the following accolades: Webby Award (Mobile Shopping for Handheld Devices) Canadian Marketing Association Award (Digital Interactive Retail) W3 Award for...

An Inside Look at Apple’s New In-Store Pickup Service

Apple is continuing to roll out ways that streamline the shopping process, including a new retail self-checkout app and the ability to pick up online purchases in select stores. Late last week, The New York Times took a look at Apple's internal retail software that responds to customer requests for assistance and further streamlines the...

TED iPhone App Launches to Showcase ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’

TED has officially announced the launch of their app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Originally, the app was only available for the iPad (launched last October). TED for iPhone was available in the App Store two weeks ago, but now it's ready for primetime: The entire library is available for browsing and searching in both...

RIM Announces Blackberry Mobile Fusion Software to Protect iPhones

Today RIM announced the upcoming debut of a device management software that will protect iPhone (and Android) users. Set to launch in March of 2012, Mobile Fusion will function alongside Blackberry Enterprise Servers (BES) behind corporate firewalls, according to Reuters: "What our enterprise customers are looking for, and the opportunity for us, is to become...

Next Generation Apple TV Codename Revealed as J33?

Details of the next generation Apple TV have been uncovered in the latest code strings within today's newly released iOS 5.1 beta. 9to5Mac notes the codename J33 represents the next Apple TV: As you can see above, the new Apple TV is rocking a the J33 codename, the second JXX product we’ve seen from Apple....

Apple’s Establishing Corporate Papers Heading to Auction

Bloomberg reports that the original founding documents establishing the Apple Computer Company, signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, is set to appear at auction on December 13th at Sotheby's in New York. The original four-page founding contract and the legalese of their partnership was drafted by Wayne on a typewriter in 1976. In Steve Jobs,...

Create Your Own Siri Conversations with iFakeSiri.com

If you don't have an iPhone 4S, well, you don't have an iPhone 4S. And if you don't have an iPhone 4S, you don't have Siri (logic from Apple's TV commercials, duh). Well you don't need an iPhone 4S to make your own Siri conversations because iFakeSiri.com is here to do it for you. Just...

Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta to Developers

Apple offered free shipping today only on all products purchased from Apple.ca as part of Cyber Monday. They weren't finished with giving though as now iOS 5.1 beta is now available to developers. Build number 9B5117b comes in at an 800MB download for the iPhone 4S. Apple previously noted they are still working on crushing...

iPhone 4 Self Combusts Aboard Just-Landed Aircraft

BGR points to a press release from Australian airline Regional Express describing an incident where an iPhone self combusted onboard an aircraft just after landing. Regional Express (Rex) flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney today had an occurrence after landing, when a passenger’s mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied...