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Potential (or current) Telus iPhone owners can continue to take advantage of the $55 Telus student plan until November 30, 2010! The plan originally expired on November 14. The plan is one of the better student packages available among the Canadian wireless carriers (the lesser of evils), mostly because of the inclusion of my10 Canada-wide...

Update 1: Scotiabank Media Communications contacted us with the following: Scotiabank manages all transactions for our iPhone services and the information is not shared with any third party.  At Scotiabank we take the security and privacy of customer information very seriously.  Our mobile banking service is protected by the highest security standards that allow us...

It's Friday--yay! Be warned that it is not iPhone-related and has nothing to do with Canada--but it is downright hilarious. I happened to be at the Bellevue Square Mall a week ago with my wife, and I was surprised to see a Microsoft Store in preparation for opening on the 18th. The interesting thing is...

Effective today, Fido has revised their two existing CityFido Plans. Previously, when subscribed to a CityFido Plan, users could only use their minutes within their CityFido Zone, which was one of the following cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec. Using minutes outside of your zone meant paying a per...

iTunes Connect just sent out an email reminder to developers that they will have their holiday shutdown from December 23-28. That means during this time, new releases, app updates and pricing changes won't be in effect during this period. Even iTunes Connect needs a holiday, right? As per the email: iTunes Connect will be temporarily...

A couple of my favourite apps had some major updates yesterday. The Globe and Mail and Boxcar had some nice updates. Be sure to check out our Globe and Mail and Boxcar reviews. The Spreed feature of the Globe and Mail app is pretty cool. Boxcar adds support for Foursquare, Gowalla, Reddit and twitter @anyone....

Apple has just released a new GM seed of iOS for developers. iOS 4.2.1 has just been posted. Apple previously released iOS 4.2 GM, only to seed a new version for the iPad (to fix a WiFi issue). When will iOS 4.2.1 final come? Your guess is as good as mine. There's less than two...

At the recent Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie expressed his thoughts on the current app-centric model that exists in the smartphone era. Here are some interesting highlights from what he had to say: "You don't need an app for the Web," "We believe you can bring the mobile to the...

After showing this tip to a few iPhone user friends, I figured it might be a good thing to put it up on the iPhone in Canada site. Suppose you are listening to music on your iPhone and need to pause your music (or audiobook), your current steps might be: Press the sleep or home...

Wikipedia has changed the way we can learn and research about any given topic. It's easy to learn about something new all the time. What if you could make a learning game out of Wikipedia? That's the concept behind the new app 3 Degrees of Wikipedia. The game is the brainchild of Ivan Zhao from...

In September 2010, Google announced that the company would bring the ability to edit Google Docs on the iPad and Google's own Android platform. Today, Google has followed through on their promise and has announced Google Docs editing for iPad and Android. However, Google has also extended support to the iPhone and iPod touch! The...

Apple just posted a new iPhone 4 ad, titled 'Longer'. It highlights the lithium polymer battery that will let you last 'longer' all on the world's thinnest smartphone. The battery on the iPhone 4 is much improved compared to previous iPhones, and is one that can actually last a day. How's your iPhone 4 battery...