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ThinkGeek is set to unveil its newest product, iCADE 8-Bitty, at the 2012 Toy Fair in New York City.  Its big brother, the iCADE gaming cabinet, began as an April Fool’s joke and soon became the most anticipated ThinkGeek product to date.  The iCADE 8-Bitty will bring the magic of the iCADE to the pockets of...

There is no denying the success of Angry Birds. It's hard to go anywhere these days without seeing those birds and pigs. They're on shirts, they're toys, they're fruit snacks, pretty much they've taken over the world. So it shouldn't come as a surprise there are those trying to capitalize on that success. Siege Hero...

Last October Apple released AirPort Utility for iOS, and the layout looked pretty slick on the iPad. Today, Apple released an update to AirPort Utility on OS X Lion that resembles its iOS counterpart. AirPort Utility enables users to control and manage settings for their wireless routers such as the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, or...

Intel has approached Apple with hopes of sneaking their new Medfield processing chip into future iOS device releases. We’ve previously reported the likelihood of a quad core chip in upcoming iOS devices which makes this possibility curious. The Medfield chip is actually a single core processor. “We don’t frankly see the need for dual core....

It’s been three years since Apple has officially attended its last conference, Macworld 2009, but that doesn’t mean that its employees, and in this case one of its executives, don’t make low profile appearances in an effort to keep tabs on other leading technology companies. Today, PaidContent spotted Greg Joswiak, head of iOS product marketing...

The latest mobile data charts from Statcounter reveals Apple's iOS and mobile Safari continue to dominate the mobile landscape in Canada and the U.S, but competitors such as Android aren't far behind and have made it a close race. Statcounter receives their data from the more than 3 million sites that use their tracking code....

Developer Steve Stroughton-Smith has revealed Apple's code names for iOS firmware all the way back from iPhone OS 1.0. The code names are from the book iOS Forensic Analysis: 1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly) 1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest) 2.0: Big Bear 2.1: Sugarbowl 2.2: Timberline 3.0: Kirkwood 3.1: Northstar 3.2: Wildcat...

A recent report published by Global StatCounter (via 9to5Mac) suggests that even though Google's Android OS has been showing rapid growth since the beginning of this year overtaking BlackBerry and even surpassing iOS in August (though only for the remainder of that month), it hasn't been able to catch up with the growing popularity of iOS. The statistics...

The developers of Infinity Blade, Chair Entertainment, are back a year later with Infinity Blade II which is now available for download in the App Store for $6.99. The game which is often quoted to be "a showcase piece", is a technically and visually stunning title that consistently delivers eye-popping stuff. In screenshots, the game might look indistinguishable from...

References of 'Carrier IQ', the infamous spware, have just been found in Apple's iOS. For those who aren't aware, 'Carrier IQ' is the rootkit that Carriers put on many of their phones to monitor customer usage.  As previously discovered by a security researcher, 'Carrier IQ' monitors keystrokes and sends them back to its own servers. Luckily...

comScore has released their Canadian mobile report for September 2011. Canada now has 20.1 million cell subscribers aged 13 and older, and 8 million of those users have smartphones (40%), an increase of 7% compared to March of 2011. Samsung is the Leading OEM for Smartphones and Regular Phones In terms of OEM hardware leaders...

Update 5: Profile installs are now 'verified'. Update 4: New icons added for Sounds, Backup, About, and Safari. Update 3: Jeff's site has been so popular, it has received over 250,000 hits in over 24 hours. His site got taken down with all the traffic, but it's back up now. A new update brings the...