Stories by Gary Ng

According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook has reportedly hired a former manager from Apple's maps team, to help expand the social network's mobile-software group: Facebook Inc. has nabbed another member of Apple Inc.’s original iPhone team, hiring Richard Williamson, the manager who had led Apple’s mapping efforts, according to people with knowledge of the...

Last week T-Mobile launched the iPhone 5 in the USA, a firmware tweaked GSM version to support AWS bands of 1700MHz. Some Canadians managed to get their hands on T-Mobile iPhone 5 units and showed off how they were able to connect to Mobilicity and WIND Mobile's AWS 3G network. That same day, Apple.ca updated...

How much are your family jewels worth? One Hong Kong businessman had a $14.5 million 26-carat black diamond as part of his family heirlooms. What does one do with such an expensive and rare stone? Put it up for auction and get the cash? Donate it to a museum to show off to the world?...

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...

Facebook has updated its iOS app to 6.0 and with it comes a cleaner look for the News Feeds, a tweaked icon, plus new ways to chat anywhere in the app with 'chat heads'. Also new is the ability to send stickers within chats. Full change log below: What's New in Version 6.0 Brand new...

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...

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....

Looks like we have yet another sale on the iPhone 5 on three year terms from our wireless carriers. TELUS, Rogers, Fido, Bell and Virgin Mobile have all discounted the 32GB and 64GB iPhone 5 models again on three year terms. The prices are as follows: 32GB iPhone 5: $230 (normally $280; $50 off) 64GB...

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...

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...

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...

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...