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On Thursday, January 13th, the developers of a Canadian mobile and Flash game studio, Halfbot, discovered that their soon to be released iOS game "The Blocks Cometh" had  been released on the App Store, but not by them. The Blocks Cometh was originally a Flash game that the developers were working on porting to the...

Task Ave is a location-aware task management app that helps users remember what they need to do and where they need to do it. The app makes it easy to manage tasks and their respective locations through local alerts. The app is fairly simple to use. Users just input a task (purchase milk next week)...

Overnight, the App Store reached its new milestone of 10 Billion downloaded apps! Launching in 2008, the App Store has been extremely successful since day one, taking just over two and half years to reach 10 Billion downloaded apps. For comparison, it took the iTunes Music Store almost seven years from its 2003 launch to...

Here we go again. The Rovio team is raking it in with themed versions of their smash hit, Angry Birds. We've seen Halloween and Christmas versions so far, but get ready for the Valentine's Day version soon to be released on February 14th. I bet they'll get over a million downloads again, easily. In the...

Pod2g notes that a small bug remains where the wifi icon doesn't show up. Once fixed they will package the untether for release. Here's a video demo below, released via twitter: An 'untethered' iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak is what the world has been waiting for. It would be wise to release this after iOS 4.3 is...

With the launch of the Verizon iPhone 4, Apple slightly tweaked the design of the device to make the iPhone 4 work on a CDMA network. This design change caused a slight downward shift of the iPhone 4 silent switch. This concern immediately worried Verizon users, since most existing iPhone 4 cases would be incompatible....

A 14-year-old Canadian has reached Apple's "New and Noteworthy" app list for utilities in both Japan and Canada after creating an app called "The Universal Alarm Clock". Rony Besprozvanny, our young Canadian developer, has managed to secure himself 1,500 downloads in the first four days since the app was released on January 15 2011, shooting...

This week Verizon launched their first iPhone 4 commercial. The device is due for launch on February 10, 2011. At first glance, the commercial seems a little dramatic, but considering how long Verizon customers have waited, I'd say it's justified. “To our millions of customers, who never stopped believing this day would come…” Overall, a...

Mr. Rogers, from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, calls SaskTel customer service and meets the most patient wireless customer service representative I have ever heard. A great afternoon laugh. This definitely put a smile on my face. [mrrogersvideos]

When Apple launched Ping, their social music network, people were interested for about one day. I checked out Ping and it was neat and all, but it's safe to say Ping failed--miserably. New evidence dug up by 9to5Mac indicates that Apple could be in the process of creating a new social network based on media...

Users of jailbroken iOS devices would have noticed this week that Cydia, the App Store equivalent for jailbroken apps, has been updated with a new Manage Account feature that allows users to conveniently view purchased packages from the Cydia store. The Manage Account feature can be accessed from Cydia’s main screen under “Manage Account” and...

Update 1: There's a now a video of gestures, via YouTube user antoninygaard. (via Engadget) Some more rumours are making the rounds regarding upcoming features for the iPhone. The latest images are from BGR, which indicate some leaked screens that indicate multitasking gestures could be coming our way. There were rumours that the Home button...