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Effective March 12, 2010, Rogers and Fido have extended their activation fee waiver promotion and are continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Mega Value Plans (All...

It is always very exciting when there is new firmware available for the iPhone, especially when the release brings many new features and enhancements. The current iPhone firmware is 3.1.3, having just recently been updated, and users are now feverishly waiting for a 4.0 release. As many may be aware, the Apple iPad, scheduled to...

With the recently updated iPhone SDK beta 4, developers have been feverishly digging deep through the updated software to find any type of hidden files regarding new features. Well, their effort has been well rewarded! Looking at the image below, developers have found new references to multitasking throughout the SDK, such as the mention of a "multitasking dialog...

Oh boy, Rogers customers are going to love this. Navigating over to the 911 fee area of the Rogers Website (or checking out your Rogers invoice), visitors will notice that effective April 12, 2010 Rogers will be increasing their monthly charged $0.50 911 fee to $0.75 per month. Rogers has given no reason for the...

How addicted are you to your iPhone? Addicted enough to express it on your fridge with some iPhone app magnets? If so, check out the iPhone App magnets from Jailbreak Toys. The magnets include the entire first iPhone home screen, including the newer "Messages" app instead of "SMS". The only two missing apps are Voice...

So far we've talked about the L5 remote, Bell PVR TV remote app, and the RedEye Mini. Being able to control all your multimedia devices with one remote is very handy. The latest patents submitted by Apple reveals that they have some sort of super remote in the works. PatentlyApple.com writes about the following: Apple...

Yesterday Apple released beta 4 of the iPhone 3.2 SDK. Initially nothing seemed very different from the previous beta, until today when users located new gesture references. Deep within the gestures folder of the new SDK, two new types of gesture commands have been found. The gestures are not currently present in the iPhone 3.1...

If you live or work in Edmonton and are a software developer, whether independent or with a firm, you have a great chance at winning yourself a couple thousand dollars in prizes! Later this month, the City of Edmonton will be holding a contest that will provide $50,000 in prize winnings to local software developers....

Do you send a lot of text and/or picture messages with your iPhone? Does your wireless bill add up every month from these messages? If so, take a closer look at the Pushme.to Messenger app. Pushme.to by Treebune Pushme.to is a messenger app that is made to send free messages from the internet to an...

On Jan. 31st, The Simpsons featured Homer using his iPhone on the show's opening couch gag. I never did catch the episode but the clip itself is pretty funny. This is the not the first time Apple has been featured on TV's longest running show. You may recall the November 2008 episode that featured "Mapple"...

The 2010 Academy Awards took place yesterday and guess who was spotted on the red carpet by Wayne Sutton? None other than 'the man' himself, Steve Jobs. That's right folks, he was probably there to support Pixar with the nominations Up! received. Also interesting to note was the first official iPad commercial debuted last night...

t was recently reported that Apple has started pulling all WiFi finder apps from the App Store, due to an issue with an undocumented, private API being used in some of these apps. Developer Aspecto Software has decided to go the jailbreak route, and release their app, WiFiFoFum in Cydia, for Free.