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The story of the day is that your iPhone has been quietly tracking you--in the background. Are you scared? Here's what Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden from O'Reilly Radar have to say: ...your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived,...

Update 1: Apparently Crackle keeps Location Services on when you close it, causing battery drain. You can disable this in Settings. If you're looking for some entertainment on your iPhone, Netflix works flawlessly. However, for a free solution, a new app called Crackle aims to keep you busy with free movies and TV shows. What...

If you're looking for an iPhone camera app that packs an amazing number of features, some of which you may never even use but are nice to have, check out ProCamera in the App Store. ProCamera The great thing about ProCamera is the abundance of features included in the app. The app delivers intuitive and...

Reuters has issued a new report indicating that the iPhone 5 will begin production in July 2011 with a September 2011 release. This report corroborates recent rumors that point to a fall 2011 launch for the next iPhone. Among all of the iPhone 5 rumors, it is still unclear why Apple has chosen to change...

Alongside the SaskTel iPhone 4 announcement today, MTS has quietly revealed that it too will be launching the iPhone 4 on April 26. While the MTS website still shows the iPhone 4 as "coming soon", the information page has been updated with a brief statement: MTS is proud to be launching the iPhone 4 on...

Earlier this year, SaskTel started posting various iPhone 4 graphics on the company's website. This was followed by an information registration page that was set up for people interested in the SaskTel iPhone 4. Those SaskTel iPhone 4 graphics have now been updated to feature a launch date for the iPhone 4! According to SaskTel, the iPhone...

Looking for a good laugh? Head over to The Onion, the most objective and reliable news source on the web since 1896. Today The Onion discusses, via a panel of analysts, whether or not unemployed Americans should be purchasing Apple computers? The discussion panel features a mix of people from a blogger, to news anchor,...

Today, GasBuddy, the app that helps users find cheap gas, has been updated to version 1.05. GasBuddy is one of those apps that takes advantage of crowdsourcing. It will use your location to find the nearest gas stations and list them by distance or price on a map or list. Stations such as Petro Canada,...

Yesterday it was revealed Apple had launched a lawsuit on Friday against Samsung for 'copying' the iPhone and iPad. Samsung as already responded against the suit, and will defend vigorously. With the release of that lawsuit, total sales numbers of iOS devices were also revealed. Asymco provides a breakdown of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch...

Sn0wbreeze 2.6 for Windows has been released by iH8sn0w. The update enables users to jailbreak and unlock their iPhone on iOS 4.3.2. This jailbreak tool is the Windows equivalent of PwnageTool (Mac only). Users should use sn0wbreeze if they want to update to iOS 4.3.2 safely but keep their existing baseband and retain their unlock...

Geekaphone had just finished a "green study" of the iPhone and published their findings in a nice infographic. Apple pulls in close to 50% of total global cellphone profits by selling only 4% of all cellphones, with that kind of profit and over 100 million iPhones sold Apple is a legitimate gorilla. There are both...

Yesterday news broke about Apple apparently changing the algorithm in the way apps are ranked in its Top Charts. Today, new reports state that apps with pay-per-install incentives are being rejected from the App Store, according to one of the largest providers, TapJoy. Pay-per-install apps are ones that ask users to download and 'try out'...