Stories by Gary Ng

Forbes has an interesting article that reveals some details on how AT&T (when it was still branded Cingular Wireless in 2006) chief operating officer, Ralph de la Vega, helped Steve Jobs and Apple create the original iPhone. Jobs had questions about smartphone radio design in 2006 and called up de la Vega for advice: ‘How...

Tired of listening to Siri try to pronounce those difficult names, and failing miserably? While one may give her an "E" for "Effort", it may quickly become annoying. Here's a tip that some of you may not know. For each entry in the Contacts app, iOS allows you to enter fields called "Phonetic First Name"...

Apple is set to announce their Q1 2013 fiscal earnings on Wednesday, January 23rd. The quarter should reveal a record number of phone sold, as the roll out of the iPhone 5 continues to be one of the most aggressive we've seen. In mid-December Apple launched the iPhone 5 in 33 more countries including China,...

Zynga's popular game Words with Friends has received an update to allow more competition for players that have signed in without Facebook. These users can now challenge their Facebook friends to play. Plus, there is now better support for the iPhone 5 as the app now takes advantage of the faster A6 processor. What's New...

Cross platform messaging giant WhatsApp has announced on Twitter it reached a new milestone for total messages processed in one day: 18 billion. Those messages were sent on New Year's Eve and totalled 7 billion messages inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. The discrepancy between inbound and outbound messages is due to the nature of...

Do you use Ubuntu? Canonical has announced Ubuntu OS for smartphones, scheduled to arrive on devices in early 2014: "We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop,...

Apple recently debuted a new commercial to feature 'Do Not Disturb' mode, which ironically failed to turn itself off yesterday. According to this Apple support document, the 'Do Not Disturb' bug will fix itself: Do Not Disturb scheduling feature will resume normal functionality after January 7, 2013. Before this date, you should manually turn the...

U.S. Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton today dismissed Apple's claim that Amazon's use of the word 'Appstore' is false advertising. The latter had implemented the name of the 'Amazon Appstore', their market for selling apps for Kindle Fire tablets. The court ruling noted: "Apple fails to make clear how the use of the mark constitutes a...

If you have an old stereo dock for your iPhone, it's probably still using the old 30-pin dock connector which means it won't work with your iPhone 5. The solution is to purchase a Lightning to 30-pin adapter from Apple which fixes the problem. Although it isn't completely solved because your iPhone or iPad resting...

Day 8 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas brings us two singles from California native pop star Ke$ha's latest album, Warrior, which was released at the end of November. Up for grabs are tracks "Only Wanna Dance With You" and "Past Lives". You can click here to download the free songs. Let us know what...

Day 7 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is here and up for grabs is a free movie rental kids (and some adults) will enjoy--Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry. The movie rental is regularly priced at $9.99 and was released in 2005: Tom and Jerry enter the "Super Race," an extreme...

Fido's $57 unlimited plan previously had an extra 1GB of data and $1 off, plus the first month free. Those promotional "extras" toward this promo plan have expired as of yesterday, but the plan in its original form is still ongoing. As for the same plan that is eligible for three year terms (which means...