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With more and more people subsribing to data plans in Canada, it appears the days of only using your desktop at home for Internet are coming to an end. A new study by IDC Canada reported 40% of Canadians accessed the Internet using a mobile device in January of 2011. Rogers also reported 45% of...

According to reports, Apple may have started shooting an iPhone 5 commercial. A Craigslist posting has been found online looking for potential actors for an iPhone ad. The Craigslist posting was only live for a few hours before being pulled. According to the online posting, both male and female actors were being sought. Also, the...

The recent list of winners for the 2011 Webby Awards were announced earlier this month. What are the Webby Awards? The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes...

Earlier we reviewed the Pizza Pizza iPhone app, and it was an extremely well-designed and easy to use app. It appears others have noticed as Pizza Pizza has won a Webby Award for their innovative iPhone app (just over a month after its launch), in the mobile category for "Shopping - Handheld Devices". What makes...

When Opera Mini first debuted on the iPhone, millions of people downloaded app. Turns out, the experience just plain sucked. Yesterday, the Opera team just released version 6.0 for iOS devices, and it brings a much improved interface: What's New In Version 6.0 Enjoy the fresh new look of Opera Mini 6 without compromise. Get...

From Wikipedia: Planking is the act of lying face down with arms to the sides of the body, in unusual public spaces and photographing it. Examples: Now, from Apple Store Planking: Wow, what has society come to? LOVE IT. Send in your planking pictures folks! [via TNW]

Let the iPhone 5/iPhone 4S rumours continue. The latest comes from Electric Pig, as sources have told them Apple's PR team has reached out to influential journalists to persuade them to attend WWDC next week: A source tells us that Apple’s UK iPhone PR team is approaching journalists from major publications to fly out to...

The popular and elegant Cydia tweak for Push Notifications, known as MobileNotifier has exceeded 230,000 downloads, as announced by developer Peter Hajas on his blog. This is an indication that iOS users are in high demand of a new revamp for unobtrusive Push Notifications as the existing system has been well in place since iPhone...

The ICBC mobile practice knowledge test we previewed last week is now available for download. This is the must-have app for any new driver looking to take full advantage of their iPhone (and iPad/iPod touch) as a way to practice for the Learner's Licence test. It's crazy how people are only required to take the...

With the start of Apple's 2011 WWDC just two weeks away, many are trying to predict the future of what iOS 5 will bring. Formerly known as iPhone OS, iOS 5 will most likely bring the most significant changes we've seen to date. Rumours have been rampant about the large role of voice recognition in...

Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of Russian mobile phone blog Mobile-Review, reports via Twitter that iOS 5 will not be compatible with the iPhone 3GS. Just one comment. Apple iPhone 3Gs wont be upgradable to iOS 5.x. iPhone 4 will. At this time, the statement is unverified. However, Apple is known to drop support for older models...

At the end of December 2010, a report from Asymco indicated that the App Store would hit 500,000 apps by mid-2011. At the time however, the App Store was on the verge of hitting 400,000 submitted iOS apps. Fast forward to today and it would seem that report was accurate. Today, Apple has reportedly crossed...