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Didn't have time to watch the two hour Apple WWDC 2011 keynote? Don't have two hours now to watch the keynote? No worries. You can watch it in two minutes. A super condensed version of the keynote has been posted to YouTube and the video hits pretty much every major announcement. The video definitely lacks...

Apple's previous in-app subscription policy announced in February irked a variety of publishers and caused a massive divide on the issue. The policy stated Apple would take a 30% cut of subscriptions and limit the ability of publishers to collect a user's information. Publishers quickly rejected this policy, and now it appears Apple has relented, according to...

You read about Apple's new ambitious plans to build a new campus in Cupertino that would hold over 12,000 staff. Cupertino's Mayor held a short press conference to answer some grilling questions over their decision to support Apple's new campus. With America still recovering from a recession, Cupertino would be foolish to not accomodate the...

The North by Northeast (NXNE) Festival is taking place on June 13-19 in Toronto, and is Canada's largest music festival. There are over 650 bands, 40 films, and 50 panels to be showcased during the event. If you want an easy way to keep track of everything at NXNE, be sure to download the newly...

According to a few photos we received today, it seems that Apple may be ready to go with FaceTime over 3G. However, it may be the carriers who make the final decision. With the iOS 5 beta, photos reveal a new pop-up that prompts users to turn on cellular data to use FaceTime. Once cellular...

With the Beta release of iOS 5 and iCloud, Apple explained that iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and more. When content is downloaded on one device, iCloud wirelessly pushes it to all your devices. This is also how the new "Automatic Downloads" feature is also supposed to work. Unfortunately, Canadians on iOS...

For those just updating to iTunes 10.3, Apple has now released iTunes 10.3.1. The update documentation for version 10.3.1 is the same as in version 10.3, so it is difficult to say exactly what was updated. However, as is typical for most 10.x.x iTunes releases, it is likely a very minor bug fix. iTunes 10.3.1...

Steve Jobs has explained last night to Cupertino City Council Apple's plans for a new campus on their recent purchase of HP's old site. The design calls for a 13,000 person capacity in a new revolutionary 'spaceship' design. Steve Jobs was introduced by Mayor Gilbert Wong to a round of applause. He goes on to...

Image via @erator The Apple Design Awards are rewarded to apps that are well designed, innovative, and have technical excellence (here are last year's winners). Here's the criteria from Apple: Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable. Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting...

Justin Luey and I recap and discuss the 2011 WWDC Keynote on Episode 40 of The iPhone Podcast. There's even chatter about iOS 5 beta. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we discuss at our blog. Episode 40 is brought to you by Audible Play In Your...

When I first heard of Georeme, I was quite impressed with the concept. It's quite simple: you can set alerts to go off when you enter or leave a particular area. We were shown this feature in iOS 5, as part of the new Reminders app. Well, the developer of Georeme clearly inspired Apple because...

With the launch of iOS 5 beta, Apple confirmed that the latest firmware is compatible with the iPhone 3GS. However, we have received some reports that iPhone 3GS users on iOS 5 may have some iOS 5 features disabled. So far it seems that iPhone 3GS users are affected as follows: Significantly slower performance than...