Stories by Gary Ng

The Future Shop and Best Buy iPhone apps have received an update today with some new features. You can now utilize Reserve and Pick Up within the app (some orders within 20 minutes), plus also view items that quality for free same day shipping. Also, this version prepares the app for an upcoming update that...

The third annual Recycle My Cell Student Challenge, as part of Waste Reduction Week in Canada, has resulted in students from K-12 and post secondary recycling 4,260 cellphones and other wireless devices, plus 270 kilograms of accessories and batteries. The challenge took place from Oct. 15th to Nov. 15th, 2012 with 131 schools across Canada participating: “I...

Fido has updated their monthly plans this morning and quietly updated their website just a couple hours ago. As for the changes? All plans now include Canada-wide calling, evenings and weekends now start at 6PM (previously this was at 5PM), and caller ID and voicemail are now standard (Rogers added this recently to their plans...

Apple has updated their online sales page for the iPad mini to remove the two per customer limit on purchases in both their Canadian and US online stores. Now, during checkout customers can enter in a number between 1-999 iPad minis for purchase, as seen below: This removal looks to signal Apple's ability to keep...

Last April, Astral Media confirmed they planned to launch HBO GO to Canadians in the Fall, but now it has arrived in the form of the free app The Movie Network GO for iOS. This app allows existing TV subscribers to watch over 1,200 titles and 1,500 hours of content from HBO Canada, The Movie...

AllThingsD reports David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital has dropped its lawsuit against Apple. In early February, Einhorn was disappointed Apple was not going to issue dividend-paying preferred shares to investors. In response, he ended up suing Apple over its Proxy Proposal 2, citing it would "restrict the board's ability to unlock the value on Apple's balance sheet."...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is Weathercube, regularly a 99 cent download and previously featured as part of the 'App Store Best of 2012'. This neat weather app (seriously, how many do we really need?!) brings your weather in an interactive and fun way. By using a variety of swipes, pinches...

Just like Fido, Rogers, TELUS, and Bell are also holding a sale on 32GB and 64GB iPhone 5 models for new activations and hardware upgrades on three year terms: 32GB iPhone 5: $229 (normally $279) 64GB iPhone 5: $279 (normally $379) The iPhone 4S remains $0 on a three year contract as well. For Rogers,...

When Canadian Jordan Satok was 17 years old, he created an app called AppHero, dedicated to personalized iOS app recommendations. Their 2.0 launch which features a new interface, a powerful text summarization engine to tell you in plain English what apps do instead of sifting through PR speak, and also push alerts when apps you might...

If you have been waiting for an iPhone 5 price drop from Fido, the time has now come. Starting today until March 4th (midnight), 32GB and 64GB models will be on sale if you sign a three year term. The sale is eligible for those renewing and doing hardware upgrades plus new customers. 32GB iPhone...

This week's Starbucks App Pick of the Week is the universal app Living Earth - Clock and Weather. Regularly $1.99, you can now grab it for free from your local Starbucks. This app can provide live clouds from near real-time satellite cloud data, updated every 3 years. This can allow storm chasers to keep up...

The Globe and Mail iOS app for news has been updated to support videos on the iPhone and iPad, plus push notification alerts for breaking stories. Also, the app now features higher quality images than before and also support for their interactive multimedia features. For iPhone 5 owners, galleries now work in landscape orientation, plus...