Stories by Gary Ng

Earlier this week the trio of newer wireless entrants WIND Mobile, Mobilicity and Public Mobile exited the CWTA over allegations the lobby group favoured our 'Big 3' carriers. Was that move foreshadowing a sign of things to come? The Globe and Mail reports this morning all three companies are now up for sale, as sources...

Three days ago some users faced an iMessage and FaceTime outage and as of this morning it appears another one has surfaced, according to Apple's iCloud system status page: To bypass iMessage, here are instructions on how to force send a text message. Tuesday's outage caused users to be unable to send or receive iMessages and...

Dropbox announced today it has added support for six more languages for its Mac, PC, Linux, Android and web users. As for iOS users? That support is coming soon. Instantly sharing your most important stuff with friends and family—no matter where in the world they are or what language they speak—can feel like magic. So...

Apple has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action law suit filed in the USA accusing the company of failing to honour warranties on iPhones and iPod touches, reports Wired: The settlement, (.pdf) set to be filed in a San Francisco federal court in the coming weeks, provides cash payouts to potentially...

According to The Verge, sources say Apple is set to sign a deal with Universal Music for the rumoured "iRadio" streaming music service, as soon as next week: Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement with a major record label perhaps as soon as next week, multiple sources with knowledge of...

Back in late February, MasterCard announced their new digital wallet would be launching by the end of March. The timeframe was a bit delayed but today the company announced the launch of their much anticipated digital wallet, MasterPass. Canada will be the first country to use MasterPass in North America. The company says at launch Porter Airlines,...

Flipboard has announced since launching their 2.0 update last month which included a new magazine curation feature, the latter has resulted in over 500,000 magazines created in the past two weeks. As for other statistics, Flipboard says there have been 6 billion pages flipped per month by their user base of 53 million readers. As...

Waterloo-based Kik has announced its cross platform messaging app has surpassed 50 million users, currently adding over 200,000 new users per day. The company also noted over 25 million installs of their HTML5 apps have been installed via their Cards feature, introduced last fall. During that same time, Kik announced it had reached 30 million...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the popular game Fruit Ninja from Halfbrick Studios (iTunes will update later this afternoon to announce it). This is one of the most popular games on iOS and has some amazing gameplay and graphics to kill the time. Last summer to celebrate the two year...

Real Racing 3 has released their 1.1 update (which they previously teased) to introduce a couple Chevrolet purchase options in the Cobalt SS and Camaro ZL1. There's also a new Hunter mode, Cloud Save functionality and over 100 new events, which now brings total events to over 1000. Full change log below: What's New in...

TELUS has announced its 4G LTE network has gone live in Saskatchewan, in Regina and Saskatoon: “Already enjoying Saskatchewan’s largest 4G network, we are pleased to welcome residents of Regina and Saskatoon to our 4G LTE wireless network service, which now covers more than 24 million Canadians across the country,” said Brent Johnston, vice-president, TELUS...

Tap Tap Tap has announced today's release of Camera+ v3.8 includes support for the following 8 languages: German Spanish Italian French Japanese Korean Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese The company used the service from Wordcrafts to help with implementing language support and revealed they originally had planned to add 20 languages, but cut them down at...