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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...

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...