Stories by Gary Ng

Here’s an Interactive Map of Apple’s Worldwide Supply Chain [PIC]

Apple's Supplier Responsibility Progress Reports have long contained the names and locations of its worldwide supply chain partners. In order to get a better visual of how Apple sources parts from all over the world, TeaLeafNation and ChinaFile (via AppleInsider) collaborated with the most recent data to create a pretty cool interactive map. Although the majority of...

‘Instamonial’ Easily Shares Your Business Testimonials Online

If you own your own business, then you might be interested in checking out Instamonial, created by Toronto-based tech startup KnexxLocal. The premise of the app is to allow local businesses to quickly upload testimonials from customers to their Instamonial page to then quickly share to social networks. “Word-of-mouth referrals are the single most important...

The Mac Essentials Bundle Offers 9 Awesome Apps for $49 [Deals]

If you're looking to take your Mac to another level, the latest Stack Social deal might just do that. The Lifehacker approved Mac Essentials Bundle offers 9 elite apps for just $49, which works out to 83% off the regular retail price (retail value of $310). Here's what's included: TechTool Pro 6: Perform Complete Diagnostics...

How to Get More Out of Google Maps for iPhone [VIDEO]

Google Maps for iOS launched in the App Store last December to much fanfare (10 million downloads in under 48 hours)given the current inconsistencies with Apple Maps. For all the Google Maps newbies out there, Google released a video yesterday to help you quickly learn what the app can do. Learn how to get the most...

BodyGuardz 15% Off Sitewide Presidents’ Day Sale Now Live

BodyGuardz is holding a site wide 15% off Presidents' Day sale that starts today until February 18th. If you've been waiting for a sale on screen protectors, protective skins, cases or earbuds for your iOS devices, definitely check out some of the offerings from BodyGuardz. They have items available for the iPhone, iPad/iPad mini and...

Rogers Q4 2012 Activated and Upgraded 940,000 Smartphones

Rogers this morning announced their Q4 2012 earnings and their wireless division continues to grow on strength from data revenue, which was at $727 million (21% YOY growth) for the quarter. Total wireless revenue was at $1.92 billion (5% YOY growth) and their adjusted operating profit was $687 million (3% YOY growth). Blended ARPU also...

TELUS Q4 2012 Adds 112K Postpaid Subscribers; 7.67M Total Users

TELUS has released their Q4 2012 earnings and their wireless division ended the year by adding an additional 112,000 subscribers, bringing their total cellphone user base to 7.67 million, up 4.5% from a year ago, with postpaid subscribers also increasing 85% compared to a year ago. Smartphone subscribers now represent 66% of their postpaid user...

Shaw Go NBA League Pass Launches: Watch Live Games on iPhone, iPad

Shaw Go NBA League Pass is a new iOS app for customers who subscribe to their HD Sports programming package and is currently a free package for the rest of the season for Shaw Friends (customers who subscribe to two or more services). The app is a free download and allows eligible Shaw customers to...

Mailbox: 150,000 Reservations Filled, 50M Emails Delivered in First Week

Mailbox yesterday suffered its first outage and dealt with intermittent issues forcing them to pause their reservations line. The company notes yesterday's outage was related to "infrastructure limits" and they have since lowered the rate at which reservations are filled to help keep service online. The service has since been back up to speed as of...

Rogers President and CEO Nadir Mohamed to Retire in 2014

Rogers announced today current company president and CEO Nadir Mohamed had decided to retire from the company in January of 2014. "Nadir is a highly regarded executive who has delivered strong results and substantial value for more than a decade," said Alan Horn, Chairman of the Board, Rogers Communications Inc. "Thanks to his disciplined and...

The iPad Makes Its Way into Justin Timberlake’s ‘Suit & Tie’ Video

Today Justin Timberlake released his official video to the first single from his upcoming album The 20/20 Experience, set to debut on March 19th. We are well aware of Apple product placements in both movies and television (especially in the new Netflix original series House of Cards) but now we're seeing it in the official...

Detailed: How Apple Controls Its Proprietary Lightning Connectors

It has been widely known Apple's new smaller Lightning connector contains authentication chips within it, but now we have some further details on how the company maintains strict controls over partners within its Made for iPhone (MFi) program. The New York Times shares details from an interview with accessory maker Mophie that sheds some light on the process....