Stories by Gary Ng

A new promo today from Rogers looks to end the year with more activations. From today until December 31st, new three year activations on Rogers will get the first three months free and activation fee waived, according to an internal doc, notes MobileSyrup. The promo is applicable to all Rogers locations, dealers and corporate stores....

We're into day 3 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas freebies promotion. Today we have the first episode from the first season of the TV series Sherlock. The free episode, "A Study in Pink", is 1 hour and 28 minutes and is available in both HD and SD downloads. The show was created by Hartswood...

Checkout 51 was released in early December and looks to change the way coupons are redeemed, thanks to the iPhone. Here's how it works, as explained to us by Checkout 51's founder, Noah Godfrey: Every Thursday, the Checkout 51 mobile app gives its members a new list of offers on grocery store products. Members can...

Recently Eastlink released their Eastlink to Go iPhone/iPad app, to allow their customers to access a variety of multimedia from their Apple devices. Users have access to movies, TV shows, Eastlink TV programming, plus OnDemand entertainment plus live HD Eastlink TV too. The service is free with Eastlink Digital TV subscriptions and a simple login...

If you're looking into running Android apps on your Mac, BlueStacks has released the beta version of their App Player for Mac, reports TechCrunch. Why would you want to do this? Well, it would allow users to run apps such as Instagram and Flipboard on the Mac. The ability to launch Android apps on Mac...

Instagram has just published a blog post revealing the top locations of images posted to the photo network from 2012. Can you guess where the top Instagrammed (that's a verb now?) location was? It was Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, which had over 100,000 pictures taken there in 2012. Here's the full list of 2012's top locations: Suvarnabhumi...

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas offers up free downloads and runs from December 26th until January 6th. Day 2's offering is the game Score! Classic Goals, an interesting football based puzzle game. The game allows you to recreate classic goals from the past 40 years of international football and features over 420 levels and 140...

This week's free Starbucks App Pick of the Week is the game Rayman Jungle Run by Ubisoft, which currently retails for $2.99 in the App Store. The app was part of App Store Best of 2012 and has an impressive average rating of 4.5 stars in iTunes. The legendary platforming hero is making the jump...

The latest Rogers Innovation Report for 2012 was conducted to reveal Canadians are increasingly becoming addicted to their smartphones. A panel of 1040 Angus Reid Forum members that owned smartphones and tablets with data plans were surveyed in late November. The results have produced a look at some trends in 2012--here are some interesting ones:...

One report coming out of Digitimes this evening notes Apple is considering moving its Mac mini production to the USA, and another report shares information regarding the use of IGZO technology for future iPhone, iPad and iPad mini displays. When new iMacs made their way to US shores, some labels read "Assembled in USA", which...

Google Maps for iOS has been one of the best app releases of 2012, and it appears the app could get better. Canadian iOS hacker Ryan Petrich has discovered the app contains a hidden topography mode, also known as 'terrain' view on the web: https://twitter.com/rpetrich/status/283551889990221825 Petrich has also released a tweak within Cydia to allow...

Boxing Day is here and there are online and in-store deals to be had on Apple products and accessories. Here's a quick round up of some sales to get you started! BodyGuardz - 20% off site wide sale! Use coupon KEEPITNEW (ends Dec. 31st). We just installed their popular iPhone 5 ScreenGuardz Pure Premium Glass...