Stories by Gary Ng

Zynga’s Draw Something 2 Launches in the Canadian App Store

For those still playing Zynga's Draw Something, you may be glad to know the sequel, Draw Something 2 has exclusively launched in the Canadian App Store, just the second country in the world after the Sweden received the game last month, notes App Advice. The new version has a redesign and now allows you to...

Mailbox Removes Reservation System, Now Handling Over 100M Emails Daily

Mailbox has announced its reservation system on their popular Gmail iOS email app has been confidently removed, thanks in large part to "10 weeks of around-the-clock hard work" by their engineering team, which has now enabled servers to handle over 100 million messages per day. Just last month the team announced it had filled 1 million reservations...

WhatsApp Sending 20 Billion Messages Daily; User Base Larger Than Twitter

We all know popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is big, right? Well think again because the company is larger than you could ever imagine. Speaking onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile, AllThingsD reports WhatApp CEO Jan Koum revealed his company has exceeded the user base of Twitter, which has roughly 200 million monthly active users....

Funny or Die Delays ‘iSteve’ Premiere to Wednesday, April 17

In mid-March, FunnyorDie.com announced it was set to release their own parody Steve Jobs biopic titled "iSteve" on April 15th. The first teaser of this movie starring Justin Long was available in early April and just last week its producers revealed behind the scenes tidbits of what it took to make the movie. We were anticipating...

Apple Replacing These Apple TV 3 Units Suffering From Wi-Fi Issues

9to5Mac reports Apple has started a replacement program for 3rd generation Apple TV units affected by Wi-Fi connectivity issues: Apple has determined that a very small number of Apple TV (3rd generation) products might experience one of these Wi-Fi related connectivity issues: Cannot locate network Unable to join network Dropped or intermittent connection. Only units with...

Mailbox 1.2 Update Brings Smarter Snoozes, Faster Swipes

Popular inbox-clearing email app Mailbox has released an update today to bring some new features and tweaks. Snoozes are now 'smarter' as they have been adjusted based on the time of day and week, plus you can now swipe more than one email at a time (as many as you want). There are also some...

Backblaze iPhone App is Now Available for Download

During the beginning of this year Backblaze teased their iPhone app would soon be available for download. The app has finally arrived and is now live in the App Store. Backblaze Mobile for iPhone let's you use your iPhone to access, view and share the data that you have backed up with the Backblaze online...

YouTube iOS App Updated to Access Live Streams

YouTube has updated its iOS app to bring access to live streams and also allow users to queue up videos to play on TV, which has long been a feature on its Android app counterpart. The sidebar also adds quick access to new videos from your subscriptions, plus the app gains some stability and performance...