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The latest rumours as pointed out by 9to5Mac and AppleInsider point towards imminent upgrades to existing Apple Retail Stores. Dubbed "Apple Store 2.0", stores will have new interactive areas to provide a better experience for customers. There will be new signage, with iPads possibly replacing existing paper signs. Also, Apple is reportedly releasing a new...

If you're a Rogers cable subscriber with a PVR, you're going to like this app. The Rogers Remote TV Manager app allows existing users to schedule recordings, search for shows, and works on both WiFi and 3G. The app is free, and works with the Rogers model 8300HD PVR (8642 HD PVR soon to come),...

If you're looking for an iPhone 4 at a great price, and are considering service with Virgin Mobile, you can now get $100 off of the iPhone 4 16 GB or iPhone 4 32GB on a 3-year contract. The offer is applicable to new 3-year contract activations on plans of $50 or higher per month...

This week, McDonald's Canada has announced that 1,000 restaurant locations now feature free Wi-Fi, courtesy of Bell Mobility. By the end of May, McDonald's forecasts to have a total of 1,400 locations providing free wireless Internet access! By month's end, more than 90 per cent of the company's 1,400 plus locations nationally will be enabled...

Sky Force, from iOS developers Infinite Dreams, is a classic arcade shooter featuring 3D interactive objects, fantastic graphics, special effects, and a great soundtrack. The game is all about shooting enemies while saving Earth! The game is based on hybrid 2D/3D graphics, where 2D backgrounds are mixed with fully textured 3D objects. The game includes eight...

The jailbreak tweaks I most often use are Activator, SBSettings, and Infinidock. Activator Activator allows iPhone/iPod Touch users to activate an app or a setting by simply pressing a button or doing a finger gesture on the screen. For example you can have the Phone app launch by holding down the volume up or down...

The Wordpress iPhone app slowly improved over the past few months in terms of stability and bug fixes. The current 2.7 release brought a new user interface and was more reliable than before. The Wordpress for iOS team has announced since January, with each incremental iOS Wordpress app update, over 75% of crashes have been...

Third party developers in Cydia tend to get overlooked sometimes with their innovative tweaks and apps. The latest upcoming app is called RecognizeMe, and it brings facial recognition to the iPhone 4. By utilizing the front-facing camera, it will scan your face to unlock your passcode. RecognizeMe is the first Facial Recognition security for the...

  More next generation iPhone rumours coming your way. This time around, Digitimes reports an Apple LTE-enabled 'iPhone 4S' is unlikely to launch in 2011, according to their sources: Apple is likely to delay the launch of its LTE-enabled iPhones to 2012, said the sources, noting that the industry had also long been skeptical about...

Now this is something that should get the attention of cable companies. Ontario-based Sandvine Corp. has released their report on internet usage for the month of March in North America. Netflix led the pack accounting for 29.7% (growth of 44% since the last report) of all internet bandwidth, surpassing even BitTorrent. “Netflix has surpassed file sharing and...

The Google Search iPhone app (formerly known as Google Mobile; was revamped in March) just got an update, and it brings faster performance and new features to make it easier to use. According to the Google Mobile blog, the app is 20% faster than before. The feature "Just Talk", where you could just search by moving...

iFixit sent out an email blast this afternoon that points to an analysis of the iPhone 4′s voice processor that powers the noise cancellation feature of the device. The noise cancellation technology in the iPhone 4 improves call quality by masking various background noises during phone calls so that both caller and receiver have an...