Stories by Gary Ng

Apple has updated their free App Pick of the Week and this time around it's the game Blueprint 3D. The game features over 300 levels with 11 themes: Each level begins with a mysterious clutter of seemingly chaotic dots and lines. Underneath all the chaos, however, lies a beautiful blueprint image waiting to be uncovered....

2013 looks to be the year wireless competition could continue to heat up in Canada. The upcoming auction for the coveted 700MHz wireless spectrum brings some advantages to our new wireless entrants WIND Mobile, Mobilicity and Public Mobile, which looks to turn the heat up on incumbents Rogers, TELUS and Bell. According to Peter Nowak,...

Day 10 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas offers up the culinary app, The Photo Cookbook - Quick and Easy (regularly priced at $3.99). This app shows you how to make meals in an easy way as simple images elegantly displayed show you exactly what to do. Every recipe starts with a photograph of all...

Day 9 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas is a single from English indie pop group, the xx. The free track is Sunset (Jamie xx Edit) along with two videos from the album Coexist, released this summer: Angels (Live in Tokyo) and Chained. The band was formed in 2008 and consists of: Romy Madley Croft,...

According to UPI, the Ashton Kutcher-led biopic on Steve Jobs will hit theatres in April, as announced by Open Road Films and Five Star Feature films: Ortenberg stated, “jOBS is certain to resonate with audiences and we are thrilled to partner with Five Star Feature Films to bring this film to theaters.” Hulme said, “We set...

Back in August G-Form dropped an iPhone 4S out of a helicopter at 1000 feet. This time around, the company has dropped a fifth gen iPod touch inside one of their latest iPhone 5 cases from 100,000 feet up in the stratosphere. The setup was lifted up via weather balloon, then dropped to the Earth....

  Corning has announced it will debut its Gorilla Glass 3 at CES 2013. The new glass will be even more durable and according to Engadget, the glass will feature a proprietary technology called Native Damage Resistance (NDR) that will reduce flaws, scratches and have overall improved strength: GG3 claims a three-fold improvement in scratch...

AllThingsD reports the latest update today to Facebook Messenger for iOS will introduce voice messages within the app, allowing users to send voice clips to friends, up to one minute long. What makes this update extra special is Facebook will be testing VOIP calls in this update, exclusively in Canada (yays): Also particularly noteworthy: In...

Yesterday TechCrunch ran a story noting its sources said Apple was in talks to acquire mapping company Waze, with various updates citing the latter wanted $750 million in a deal. Now, a follow up story by MG Siegler notes no deal is happening whatsoever: That information comes from multiple sources close to the situation. And...

Rovio announced this morning the company experienced a huge Christmas season for game downloads. During Christmas week (Dec. 22-29), the company experienced 30 million game downloads, with 8 million alone on Christmas Day: To top it all off, we had 30 million downloads during Christmas week (December 22-29) and, on Christmas Day, over 8 million...

Pebble, the Kickstarter watch project that shattered records, has announced it will be holding a press conference at CES 2013 to announce some "big news". For those not able to attend in person at CES, you will be able to watch the announcement streamed live at getpebble.com on January 9th, 9:00AM PST. Pebble has not...

A couple days ago the added extras to Fido's $57 unlimited plan expired--the 1GB of extra data and $1 off. Some of you procrastinators missed out but you're in luck because this morning Fido brought them back, as their website reflects the change: The reason for the return of these promos? Probably because rivals Koodo...