Stories by Gary Ng

Globalnews.ca has launched a new responsive website design to target the increasingly growing number of mobile users that access news from their smartphones and tablets. What's also new about the site is there will be featured editorial content written by journalists but commissioned by advertisers, to go alongside news stories, as the media industry continues...

With Google Reader set to shutdown on July 1st, the race is on to create the next best replacement. Digg announced shortly afterwards it was set to re-prioritize its goals to create a Reader replacement. The company has shared today what it plans to do after hearing feedback from the community: After combing through all...

Google+ for iOS has received a major update to bring photo editing such as filters and rotate and crop features. There's also a new profile design, notifications tray and easier setup for new users. The full change log is below: What's New in Version 4.3.0 - New photo editing features: add filters, rotate and crop...

We last reviewed Summly last November, as an innovative news app that uses a unique algorithm to summarize articles into short form. This morning, Yahoo! has announced it has acquired the company, founded by Nick D'Aloisio when he was just 15 years old. Part of this acqui-hire means the Summly app itself will close, but...

Astral has announced its iOS apps The Movie Network GO, HBO GO and TMN Encore GO are now available for Rogers customers, after noting in early March the latter would be later included. "Launching TMN GO with Rogers is a significant milestone for our business as it will enable us to bring our innovative streaming...

Remember the dad whose son ran up $22,000 in data roaming charges down in Mexico? Well, he has finally managed to negotiate the final bill down to $200 with Fido, reports the CBC. Buie refused to pay, and argued all the way up to the office of the president at Fido, which is owned by...

This afternoon the WSJ reports Apple has snapped up indoor-GPS company WiFiSLAM for $20 million dollars, with the deal confirmed by Apple: Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently. An Apple spokesman confirmed the deal saying the company...

NAVIGON has announced it has updated its iOS GPS apps to include Bluetooth audio support for directions along with Wikipedia integration. This means you can now hear directions over your car's speakers and it will fade out music before it announces instructions. As for Wikipedia enhancements, points of interests will now show icons where you can...

Yesterday Apple implemented 2-step authentication security for Apple ID accounts, but unfortunately did not include Canada as part of its launch. Ironically, The Verge reports of an exploit where Apple ID password resets can by achieved with only an email and date of birth, using a modified URL of Apple's iForgot page (which is currently...

We have heard ongoing stories about parents dishing out iPads to their kids, only to be surprised when 'accidental' in-app purchases occur (like spending $1500 CDN on virtual donuts). The Guardian now reports Apple has implemented a small change to all paid and freemium apps within the App Store to add the line "Offers In-App...

Apple recently launched a new page on its website to tout why the iPhone was the smartphone of choice. Just yesterday, the iPhone won its 9th straight JD Power and Associates award for customer satisfaction and we noted the company had not updated its "Why iPhone" page to reflect this achievement. Well, that time has come...

A couple days ago Reuters released their iOS app for iPhone and iPad, which is currently featured as the Editors' Choice in the App Store. After using the Reuters app for a day or so, I can say it's an extremely well-designed news app with some intuitive gestures. The main page features the top stories...