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Every week we discuss the latest about iOS news and apps on The iPhone Podcast, and Justin Luey manages to find some nice little gems. One of those is Convore, a new app that lets you chat with others in real-time. It's essentially forums made easy on iOS. But Convore goes beyond just for chat....

In late January, it was announced Rovio was teaming up with 20th Century Fox to release Angry Birds Rio, a new version of the game based on the upcoming animated film. Angry Birds Rio went live in the App Store tonight, and it's $0.99. In Angry Birds Rio, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and...

For those living in the Greater Toronto Area, you mind find the following app useful. CityNews Toronto has been released in the App Store, by Rogers Media. This app provides dedicated local news stories and video clips. The CityTV iPad app is also worth checking out. Out of the newsroom and on the streets, CityNews...

The creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman aka 'Saurik', announced on twitter a couple days ago Cydia now has improved launch times. His tweaking over three months has resulted in slightly faster response times, as seen in the following graphs: Saurik accomplished this via the following: Just switched Cydia's www over to the new "CDN->ELB" stack...

Apple appears to be aggressively defending its use of the 'App Store' name. Bloomberg reports Apple filed a complained on March 18th, Amazon.com for using the term "App Store" to describe their software developer program. “We’ve asked Amazon not to copy the App Store name because it will confuse and mislead customers,” said Kristin Huguet,...

Justin Luey and I discuss the latest iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV) news on Episode 31 of The iPhone Podcast. You don't want to miss this! Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we discuss at our blog. Apps Discussed: WordPress Instapaper Photoshop Express Path Posterous...

Google Latitude has just been updated for the iPhone. This update brings the ability to check in to restaurants (rivalling services like Foursquare) and brings an improvement to battery life when running in the background. What's New In Version 2.1 -- Check-ins: Check in at places like restaurants so your friends can see you’re there....

If you're a fan of March Madness, this is the app you want to have. NCAA March Madness On Demand is an epic free app that streams the entire tournament for free to your iPhone, even in Canada. That's right, from the first round to the final four, you can watch the entire tournament in...

The New York Times is reporting NFC capabilities are coming to a future iPhone, but not necessarily the next iteration. Near-field communication would allow iPhones to make payments digitally by just tapping your phone. According to sources familiar with the matter: According to two people with knowledge of the inner workings of a coming iteration...

It seems that unlimited calling plans are extremely popular in recent months with the Canadian wireless carriers. Today, in response to recent competitive activity, Rogers has launched a new $30 Unlimited Incoming "Competitive Response" plan. The plan is effective March 21, 2011 and the features are listed below: Minutes: 150 daytime Evenings/Weekends: Unlimited @ 6PM...

In February, SaskTel announced that they will eventually be carrying the iPhone 4. While no official launch date was set, this was definitely great news for SaskTel customers! Now, after the announcement and various iPhone 4 graphics appearing on the SaskTel site, a new information registration page has been set up for people interested in...

Today, BGR reports that Apple may be releasing iOS 4.3.1 within the next "one to two weeks". The update would bring mostly bug fixes for Apple's iOS devices. For reference, the changes from iOS 4.3 are detailed: Baseband updates for iPhone 3GS and original iPad Fixed memory hang that results in memory corruption when reading...