Stories by Gary Ng

An Edmonton gas station has created its own iPhone (and Android) app to allow customers to make mobile payments at the pump. The free Hughes Mobile Pay app enables customers to purchase gas directly from the app, activate the pump for fuelling and receive a receipt for the transaction all "from the comfort of their cars."...

The folks over at iFixit have completed a teardown of the Pebble e-paper watch, one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history, started by Canadian Eric Migicovsky, a former RIM employee. iFixit notes in their teardown there is no repairability scale yet on the watch, but they did say replacing parts would be difficult given...

Cellhelmet started out on Kickstarter last February as an iPhone case and insurance program to offer protection for US and Canadian owners. Just last week, the company behind Cellhelmet let us know they had made its way onto ABC's Shark Tank. Check out the video below to see how they fared (jump to the 23:30...

Google Now is the virtual assistant that's long been accessible for Android users, but according to Engadget, the following alleged leaked promo video for the iOS version was uploaded to YouTube then subsequently pulled. How the iOS version of Google Now would work is to just simply swipe up from the main screen within the...

Apple has released a relatively minor update to its Apple Store iOS app, which brings new options when it comes to setting up your shipping options for individual items. This update means you can decide which items you want to ship faster than others. Since Apple has free shipping on orders over $75, it's worth...

Audyssey Labs made its way onto iOS via an update to Songza last December, bringing its audio technology to free streaming music app. The audio technology improves the listening experience via implementing specific profiles for each model of headphones from numerous manufacturers. Just recently, Audyssey launched its own standalone media player, 'amp' in the App...

Dropbox has announced an update to its Mac desktop client (and Windows as well) to bring a new and improved notification menu which makes it easier to accept invitations to shared folders, links or albums. Everything you want from Dropbox can now be accessed in the new menu, which also has an even easier view...

VEVO has announced at SXSW the update of its VEVO iOS app to launch VEVO TV, a 24/7 channel to stream music videos, similar to the old school days when we were glued to MTV and Much Music (where's Master T at nowadays?) before YouTube came along, reports The Next Web: Michael Cerda, VP of...

According to a report by CTV BC, one particular iPhone 5 user in South Surrey was unhappy with his TELUS network reception to the point where he decided to cancel his contract early with the company. Steve Lee's neighbourhood in South Surrey previously had decent cell reception but as of last April, the coverage had...

It was recently discovered the latest 'silent' Apple TV update contained a smaller A5 chip, with speculation it could have been manufactured by TSMC's 28 nm process, possibly part of a production trial to create smaller chips for Apple. Now, Chipworks (via MacRumors) has confirmed the A5 within the latest Apple TV is still being...

TELUS has announced its 4G LTE network is now officially live in Saint John, part of its ongoing rollout in Atlantic Canada. The launch comes as other areas such as St. John's, Moncton, Charlottetown and Halifax all have their LTE networks up and running as well. The company notes 70 per cent of the Canadian...

The Evad3rs jailbreak team has been busy over the past day or so as two updates have been released for the evasi0n jailbreak tool. The latest is version 1.5.3 which aims to fix bugs for the Windows version; this release was published shortly after the 1.5.2 version that provided language support for French, Chinese and...