Stories by Gary Ng

According to a report by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch, his sources note Facebook could introduce a phone next week at the company's mystery media event: And so, with that in mind, multiple sources have told us that they expect some sort of Facebook Phone to be on display on Tuesday. Now for the caveats...

German site Apfellike has created a round up of some interesting concepts they'd like to see in iOS 7. They cover some nice looking concepts such as a redesign of the iOS lockscreen; a new dashboard similar to Widgets in OS X for controlling toggles such as LTE, Bluetooth and more; a redesign of notification banners...

Earlier this morning Reuters suddenly pulled their article that cited Apple had no plans to pursue a less-expensive iPhone, information from an interview Apple SVP Phil Schiller had with the Shanghai Evening News. Now, in a follow up article Reuters clarifies why it pulled the original story. It was because the Shanghai Evening News (SEN)...

Bloomberg reports U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan approved the $527 million deal Apple, Google and other tech companies bid to purchase patents from Kodak. The latter was "disappointed" with the final price, as a previous advisory firm estimated the company could get $2 billion out of the patents: Michael Torkin, an attorney for Kodak,...

With winter in full swing it's always better to be well-informed and prepared if you're a traveller. If you live in Calgary, the city has created a free app to provide its citizens with real-time traffic updates and also views of traffic cameras as well: The City of Calgary Road Conditions app is designed to...

Rovio has announced some more incredible numbers for December. This time, the Finnish company has noted they had 263 million active users last month, to go along with their other 2012 milestones: 2012 was a milestone year for us: More than 1 billion downloads (30 million during Christmas week alone), and we had more than...

Former Apple Safari Engineering Manager, Don Melton (a hire by Scott Forstall), continues to share his anecdotal accounts of his experience working for the Cupertino company. This time around, he shares what it was like when Steve Jobs announced Safari to the world at MacWorld back in 2003: Steve started the Safari presentation with, “So, buckle...

AllThingsD reports on an interview with Beats headphones CEO Jimmy Iovine and how the latter once tried to sell Steve Jobs on music subscriptions, but ultimately was unsuccessful, even after three years of pursuing the matter. Universal Music head Doug Morris told Iovine to talk to Jobs: In 2002, 2003, Doug asked me to go...

Japanese Twitter user @morisatoh has created one of the most interesting iPhone accessories I've seen. It's a quick draw sleeve contraption that is quite interesting, only because of the way it's being demonstrated on video. The man behind the video is performer Shota Mori. His video has references to the movie Taxi Driver and is kinda...

Apple will receive an Emmy Engineering Award tonight (via The Loop) at CES 2013 for winning in the following category: Eco-system for Real Time Presentation of TV Content to Mobile Devices without the use of Specialized Television Hardware Launched in 1948, the awards honour "development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the puzzle game KooZac, made by Square Enix. The concept of KooZac is simple: position the falling blocks on top of each other to create the target numbers. The game features 60 levels with three different modes and can be described as Tetris-like arithmetic game...

Right: Apple SVP Phil Schiller is currently in China; via M.I.C. Gadget Apple executive Phil Schiller is in China with CEO Tim Cook and in a recent interview with the Shanghai Evening News, the former noted cheap smartphones will not be developed by Apple in order to grab marketshare. The Next Web confirmed with Apple...