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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was established to control access to copyrighted works by preventing individuals from circumventing digital rights management schemes; though the Librarian of Congress has the power to grand exemptions. After some concern expressed earlier this year, this power was exercised this week with the addition of a new batch of...

Are you a fan of the social news service News.me? If so, I'm about to be the bearer of bad news. Twitter's ever-tightening API rules have claimed yet another victim. For those that don't know about News.me, it is best described as a news "curator", which used complex algorithms to pull in news stories based...

Easy commerce for everyone (real name 'Square') has finally stepped into Canadian territory. The service enables fast payments for anyone running a business in Canada, no matter where the business is located. Although not the first mobile payment system in Canada, it's one of the most popular based on its success in the U.S., as...

Apple has just announced the iBooks 3.0 for all iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices with brand new features such as infinite scrolling, improved iCloud integration, Facebook / Twitter sharing and support for Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages among others. The update is free to download from the App Store. During today's keynote, Apple CEO Tim...

A recent study commissioned by Research in Motion has concluded it is cheaper and safer for companies to keep using BlackBerrys despite the proliferation of the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon. RIM hired global research firm Strategy Analytics to look into the related costs when companies made a switch away from the BlackBerry to...

Reuters reports RIM has been dealt another blow as the US Customs and Immigration (ICE) has announced it will switch from the BlackBerry to the iPhone, with almost 18,000 iPhones purchased, at a contract price of $2.1 million: The agency said in a solicitation document posted last week that it intends to buy iPhones for...

Apple may drop the IR proximity sensors currently used in the iPhone in favor of sonar tech. Or at least it is working on this technology, as a recently granted US patent shows. (more…)

How does one measure mobile dominance? One might say - by assessing which phones are being used the most! One measurement of this is overall web traffic share. In other words, which models of smartphones are used to surf the Internet the most? According to online advertising network Chitika, Apple is the clear winner in this...

With a few weeks experience using iOS 6, a few of the new features are rising to the surface and showing themselves as real gems. In case you haven't had the chance to play around, or you need a good reason to stop delaying your upgrade, consider my picks for the three best features of...

Crazy Taxi, an extremely fun game of barreling through traffic jammed streets to get from point A to point B will finally hit our iOS devices later this month. Sega announced earlier today that Crazy Taxi would launch on the iPhone and iPad sometime during the month of October. The crazily amusing game was widely...

When it comes to Canadians making apps or products for your iDevices, we've covered a few of them. From the Pela Case to the Concept Touchscreen Gloves. There are plenty of talented and smart Canadians out there. So when I heard about Knottycase, I wanted to review their wooden iPhone cases. But I quickly found...

Want to live out your basketball fantasy, but have no game on the real court? Have no fear, the world's most popular NBA video game franchise is finally coming to iPhone. NBA 2K13 by 2K Sports is now available in the App Store. The franchise has been asserting its dominance in the basketball simulation department for...