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Foxconn’s Upcoming 1 Million Robot Workers Animated by NMA.TV

The latest report regarding Foxconn was their intention to employ 1 million robot workers to replace humans for certain tasks within their factories. The Taiwanese company helps supply Apple with their popular iPhone and iPad devices. NMA.TV has animated a video with their impression of how the whole takeover will go down. NMA.TV is notorious...

Instagram Surpasses 150 Million Photos and 7 Million Users in 9 Months

Instagram has quickly become the place to share photos for iOS users. Launched back in October of 2010, the service announced today they have exceeded 150 million shared photos by over 7 million users. Oh, and this has been accomplished on iOS devices only. Users love Instagram so much, photos have been shared at a...

Apple Rumoured to Launch Re-Downloading Movie Service ‘iTunes Replay’

Does Apple have plans to launch an actual streaming service to showcase their content from iTunes? The answer is yes, according to sources AppAdvice spoke to. Just the other day Apple TV users in the US received iCloud capabilities for their previously purchased TV shows. Now, it appears Apple is set to launch a new...

Rogers Launches $30 6GB Data Plan

Effective today, smartphone customers who activate on a three-year voice and data contract can choose the Rogers 6GB data plan for $30. Normally, Rogers charges $30 for 1GB of data. If you are a new or existing customer, you are eligible for the $30 6GB data plan on a 3-year term and once you add...

iOS 5 Concept Video: Notification Center Gets ‘Persistent Badge’ and ‘Widgets’

Jan-Michael Cart has just released another one of his beautiful iOS 5 concept videos. The latest video demonstrates improvements to Notification Center and introduces the 'Persistent Badge', a way of alerting users via tiny badges in the status bar. Also, there's other improvements to Widgets, collapsable notifications, and incoming calls as notifications. It's a nice...

Report: Pegatron to Ship iPhone 5 in September

According to Digitimes, Pegatron Technology will ship the iPhone 5 in September. The company has landed orders for 10 million units, according to sources. Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 10 million units of iPhone 5 to become the second ODM of the smartphone. Shipments will start in September The report goes on to mention...

Koodo Mobile to Offer Data Only Plans In the Near Future

Data only plans seem pretty hard to come by in Canada, but that is going to change soon. According to MobileSyrup, sources tell them Telus' discount brand, Koodo Mobile is set to offer data only plans 'in the future', with no requirement for voice or text plans. No prices were revealed, but given the fact...

Carriers Network Testing iPhone 5 in Locked and Sealed Boxes?

More iPhone 5 rumours coming your way, this time via the Guardian. According to their sources carriers are already testing iPhone 5 units in locked and sealed boxes: my carrier sources tell me that the boxes in which the new iPhone hardware is encased have been transported to carriers for testing. This is an important...

CellularFirm.ca: Canada’s Newest Accessories Store–Contest! [Sponsor]

During my time at Apple Expo, I met a lot of great people and got to network with lots of great companies. One of those included the folks from CellularFirm.ca, one of Canada's newest mobile accessory retailers, with over 4000 products in their inventory. Based out of Toronto, their background is in dealing with buying...

Get 50% Off invisibleSHIELDs, Today’s Three Hour Sale

If you're in the market for some invisibleSHIELDs from ZAGG, today they are offering a short 50% off sale. It applies to any invisibleSHIELD, and will apply to three items within your cart. I've been using ZAGG's invisibleSHIELD since the days of my original iPhone in 2007, and have been using them since, even on...