Stories by Gary Ng

Apple has uploaded a couple new iPhone 5 TV ads to its YouTube channel tonight, titled "Brilliant" and "Discover". Both ads feature the following description: With an iPhone, there's an app for that. And that. And that. The ads showcase the numerous apps available for the iPhone and the format is similar to recent iPad...

Marvel announced late yesterday at SXSW plans to give away 700 of their comics for free as part of a promotion to gain more readers. At $1.99-$3.99 per issue, giving away 700 number one issues is definitely a way to overwhelm comiXology servers, and that's just exactly what has happened. ComiXology CEO David Steinberger announced they...

According to a study published today in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by Isaac I. Bogoch, MD, from the Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Toronto General Hospital, says the iPhone camera modified as a microscope can yield modest results in detecting worms based on their field study: The researchers mounted a 3-mm...

When Amazon isn't targeting the iPad mini against its Kindle Fire HD on its homepage, it is showing off how cool its eTextbooks are for students looking to take their studies to another level. What's interesting about the following Kindle eTextbooks demo is Amazon pimps out the Kindle iOS app for iPad, rather than showing...

Google has announced the refresh of its Gmail mobile web app, to streamline its interface to look like that of its iOS app: Today we’re rolling out a similar refreshed look to the Gmail mobile web app as well as Gmail Offline (http://goo.gl/0f1ae) that includes many of these same changes. Try it out at gmail.com...

Are you using Mailbox yet? The highly anticipated app launched to much fanfare, although its reservation system has remained a questionable way for it to ramp up its launch; but at the end of the day, this app is free so there's nothing to complain about. The company has announced the app is now delivering...

Want to hide any stock app on your iPhone or iPad without jailbreaking? You can do so by downloading the free app, HiddenApps, which launched in the App Store five days ago. Once installed, tap on 'Hide Apps'. Then, select the stock app you wish to hide. Immediately, you'll be asked to install "Poof". Agree...

Canada's wireless market has long been dominated by three major players: Rogers, Bell and TELUS, which control roughly 94% of the market, according to Open Media's latest report to fix our cellphone market. The Federal government recently promised it would increase further increase wireless competition to offer Canadians more choice and lower prices--but will that...

Rovio today has announced Angry Birds Toons will first debut on March 17th and will be available to stream from within all Angry Birds apps, with new episodes airing every weekend at the same time. An update will arrive on March 17th to allow fans to watch episodes right within apps via a new channel...

At the end of January it was suspected Apple was set to release an Apple TV refresh, as FCC filings revealed a unit with a different model number and slightly smaller dimensions. Apple responded to the speculation to say the updated model number was required as part of regulatory approval and overall it is just...

Speaking at a panel at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) moderated by CNET Senior Reporter Seth Rosenblatt, the vice president of Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, said Firefox will not make its way onto iOS devices until Apple changes its ways towards third party browsers: Mozilla's Firefox browser will have no place on Apple devices so long...

First it was Koodo that doubled data and minutes for its Canada-wide plans, then Fido followed, and now it's Virgin Mobile's turn. The latter has updated their website to announce double the data and minutes for its Gold Plans, plus the first month is free. Do note data overages are $10/200MB for the $35 plan...