Stories by Gary Ng

Koodo Promo: Double Voice Minutes Until April 30th

Last month Koodo offered a promo where we saw double the voice minutes and data on most plans. For this month, a similar promo now offers double the minutes only until the 30th. As you can see below their Canada-wide data plans and Canada-wide talk and text plans are showing twice as many minutes than...

Apple’s Free App of the Week: Toca Tailor

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is one your children will enjoy. Toca Tailor (normally priced at $2.99) allows you to design and style four cute characters with various clothes and accessories. The app is made for kids aged 4 years and up. Time to get busy with those design skills! With...

Real Racing 3 to Get Chevrolet Update, Cloud Saves, 100+ New Events

Real Racing has announced on its Facebook page the latest third instalment of the popular game will soon get an update to bring Chevrolet to its line up. Users will be able to purchase the Cobalt SS and Camaro ZL1. Other new features will include an all-new Hunter mode, Cloud save functionality (finally), over 100...

Smart Calendar Tempo Launches iOS App to Users in Canada

Tempo is a smart calendar that just launched to users in Canada, with a wait list system similar to what we have previously seen from Mailbox. What is Tempo? It's based on SRI (the birthplace of Siri): Tempo is like having your own personal assistant prepare you for what’s next. It’s the only mobile calendar...

2013 Federal Budget Discovered to Include 5-6% iPod Tax [Update]

Last month's federal budget includes an 'accidental' iPod tax, as discovered by associate professor Mike Moffatt from the Richard Ivey School of Business, who believes the inclusion might have been 'accidental'. Moffat says the Conservative government might have accidentally included levy on iPods and other digital music players due in part to complicated tariff codes....

Wireless Carriers Oppose Ottawa’s Desire to Regulate Spectrum License Transfers

Earlier in March, the Minister of Industry Christian Paradis announced plans by Ottawa to further increase wireless competition to help Canadians gain better prices and services. Part of this plan was a declaration by the Federal Government to "promote at least four wireless providers in every region of the country." Other plans included reviewing the...

Google Announces Blink: Open Source WebKit-Based Rendering Engine

Google has announced it will no longer be using the WebKit rendering engine to power Google Chrome. Rather, the company will soon launch Blink, a new rendering engine based on WebKit that will be open source: However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has...

Duke Nukem 2 for iOS Now Available for Download

In mid-March it was announced Duke Nukem 2 would be released on iOS to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary. Well, the title went live in the App Store yesterday and is now available for download. The game  is $1.99, has 32 levels and "256 eye popping colors" which should take you back in time. It's...

Angry Birds Friends Coming for iOS, Will Allow Play Against Facebook Friends

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Friends, a game exclusively launched on Facebook last May, will soon have its own iOS app for the iPhone and iPad. This latest addition will allow iOS users to challenge their Facebook friends in various weekly tournaments: Pop some piggies with your friends wherever you are! Angry Birds Friends spruces...