Stories by Gary Ng

SaskTel expects Christmas Day to be one of their busiest of the year. The company as announced it projects their customers will make 600,000 long distance calls, 450,000 landline calls and 150,000 wireless long distance calls. As for text messages? That's the new Christmas card as SaskTel predicts their customers will send 8 million texts...

Fido's popular $56 unlimited plan with 2GB of data has just received a new promo for Boxing Week. New customers signing up to the plan will get the first month free until December 31st. Standard plans and all promo plans are eligible for the first month free. In late November, this plan received double the...

TELUS has announced their 4G LTE network has gone live in Sudbury, part of an ongoing $650 million investment in Ontario over the next three years to expand wireless networks. “TELUS is committed to offering the best customer experience and launching our 4G LTE service in Sudbury is an excellent example of how we’re doing...

Five days ago AllThingsD reported Facebook was set to launch a competitor to Snapchat, an app that allows users to send self destructing messages to friends. That has now come to life as Facebook has just announced the release of Poke, a new messaging app for the iPhone: With the Poke app, you can poke...

At the end of November, Nokia sought to ban BlackBerry sales as RIM was told by the latter it was not entitled to ship products with the WLAN standard since it wasn't covered in their original patent license agreement. Now, RIM has agreed to pay Nokia for these WLAN patents (as expected). Nokia made an...

If you're in Toronto right now, Mobilicity is offering free worldwide long distance calls inside a promotional snow globe tent in Yonge-Dundas Square. The 24 foot high snow globe is open today until 8pm and tomorrow from 9:30am to 7:30pm for free worldwide calling to loved ones. No word on how long your calls can...

Apple's free App of the Week is Marvel's Avengers Initiative, a winner of of IGN's People's Choice Award, which is part of the reason why the app is now free (it coincides with Apple's weekly pick it appears). The game comes in at a 1.54 GB download and is optimized for the iPad mini, Retina...

Rogers and TELUS have introduced some iPhone 5 sales for the holidays. Rogers is offering the 16GB  iPhone 5 for $79 on a three year contract, which is a savings of $100. TELUS is also offering the same deal on the 16GB model, but has also slashed its 32GB and 64GB models by $100 as...

Instagram has released an update just prior to the shutdown of iTunes Connect for the holidays. This new version introduces a new filter called "Mayfair", adds Facebook iOS 6 integration, more languages support and the ability to share photos from any album, plus some bug fixes. What's New in Version 3.4.0 - Instagram is now...

Apple's latest 21.5" and 27" iMacs have shipped and many have already arrived in Canada and the US. Primate Labs has released some Geekbench data to help users take a look at the performance results from both computers. The benchmark measures processor and memory performance. The new 27" iMacs were first compared to last year's...

Just a quick note the RedFlagDeals.com iOS app has been updated to support the taller screen of the iPhone 5 and better compatibility with iOS 6. Also, with Boxing Day looming only six days away, the newly added Flyers section will make it even easier to keep track of those deals. What's New in Version...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in preliminary talks alongside Microsoft and Google to acquire home automation start up R2 Studios, created by the maker of the Slingbox: A secretive startup founded by the man who popularized the Slingbox has been in talks with companies considering buying it, people close to the company...