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What can brown do for you? Well, if you live in Canada, brown can now calculate shipping rates, track shipments and more, right from your iPhone. Yes, as you can probably guess, the UPS Mobile iPhone App is now available in Canada. This is a welcome addition to the Apple App Store for Canadians packing…
We’ve heard of exploding or fiery iPods and iPhone handsets before, usually resulting in little or no injury, but none have perplexed us as much as this particular case. Why on earth would you put together a video montage of the destroyed iPhone with cheesy flames and explosions around them set to Bruce Springsteen’s music?…
As part of its plans to ship 40 million iPads this year, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among competitors. According to sources from upstream component makers, it’s the second-tier players that won’t be able to procure enough touch panels for their tablet devices. With RIM,…
Just because you don’t attend, it doesn’t mean you can’t win. Take Apple for instance. Last year, Steve Jobs was named the “Mobile Personality of the Year” and this year the iPhone 4 took the Best Mobile Device award. Needless to say, Apple wasn’t at the show neither this nor last year. Judges said that…
We’ve been on the ground at the Mobile World Congress 2011 and I got a chance to hop aboard a boat to check out the CyWee Air Shuttle, a wireless video streamer for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other Apple products. Why was I on a boat? I have no idea but check out…
The anticipation had been building for years and the hype reached an all-time high when it became official, but did the Verizon iPhone 4 fail to meet sales expectations? We knew that pre-order sales were impressive and that Verizon set a new first-day sales record. Figures from the pre-orders are rumored to be just over…
Please allow me to indulge my photography obsession once again by sharing with you Camera+ and the process the developers take to create effects. If you’re familiar with iPhone photo apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, Camerabag and Camera+, you’ll notice that film-style photos – especially ones that look like they’ve aged or have been taken by…
The iPhone 3GS is an aging beast, but still a very capable handset nonetheless. AT&T and Apple are both selling the device for $49 with a new contract, and have been for some time now, but it doesn’t seem like folks are aware or perhaps they’re just bombarded with iPhone 4 news and ads. AT&T…
The holidays were good to Apple as it saw a huge surge in iPad shipments worldwide. Combined with notebooks, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs helping it speed right past HP, who shipped 9.3 million units worldwide in the mobile PC space. This puts Apple and HP at 17.2% and 15.6% of the worldwide marketshare…
The Apple App Store subscription service may be a boon for newspapers and magazines publishers but not all content companies are happy with the 30% cut that Apple will be taking from subscription services on iOS. Rhapsody is already saying that it won’t abide by this fee and that it may have to drop iOS…