Stories by Gary Ng

Earlier today Google published 10 quick tips on how to use Google Maps for iOS. One tip many have asked is how to change from kilometres (or kilometers) to miles and vice versa within Google Maps? The answer? It comes down to the default unit of distance within your iPhone settings. To change between miles...

Patently Apple reports Apple has filed for the 'iPod touch loop' trademark with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on December 10th, 2012. Apple's original trademark filing for this term took place in Jamaica in September, when the new iPod touch was first launched. Apple filed their trademark in Toronto, Canada under "wares" which specifically covers...

Google has shared some quick tips for newbies trying out Google Maps for the iPhone. The app looks great but some of the gestures take some discovering to figure out. One of the best features about the app is how the swiping up on info sheets include Street View previews and relevant search info for businesses...

With the emergence of popular bookmarking services like Pocket, does anyone still use Delicious? The company was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, fell into despair, and sold to AVOS Systems (run by the co-founders of YouTube) in 2011. Just over a week ago, the Delicious blog announced the release of their official iPhone app. Delicious...

Pocket has become one of the most popular services to save articles or links for reading later. Last year, the company was known as Read It Later but was rebranded to Pocket. The company has posted their 2012 year in review and they have experienced some incredible success: 240 million 'saved to Pocket' instances from...

Electronic Arts is definitely getting festive again this year, as they have announced a massive holiday sale. Every iOS title for either the iPhone or iPad has been discounted to $0.99 or free: Join the festivities with the Big Holiday Sale. Over 99 of EA’s best mobile games are just 99¢ – or FREE. This...

If you've been waiting for WhatsApp Messenger to go on sale, it's currently a free download in the App Store. If you haven't used WhatsApp, it's a popular and powerful cross platform messaging app that will allow you to communicate with friends who also have the app on Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian devices....

It looks like Apple may not be able to patent the "pinch-to-zoom" functionality after all. Today the United States Patent Office (USPTO) rejected the "US 7,844,915" patent, otherwise known as the "pinch-to-zoom" patent. This is significant because this particular patent was a key piece of the pie in Apple's $1.049 billion infringement win over Samsung...

Kids Help Phone recently asked for ideas to include in their mobile app and the idea for a 'Stress Buster app' won. The idea has gone from its initial sketch stages to a finished app that allows youth to contact professionals for help over the phone or live chat, as announced earlier today: The Kids...

We're only posting this because Fruit Ninja was updated today with iPhone 5 support and was free the other day. The following video is what Fruit Ninja would look like in real life--to the beat of dubstep. The song within the video was written by Scott & Brendo. [via @macguitar]

Earlier this month, we reported on TELUS suing wireless entrant Mobilicity over claims the latter's TV ads were "false and misleading". Now, Mobilicity has issued a press release stating a BC Supreme Court Judge has made a decision in their favour over TELUS, dismissing an interlocutory injunction application by the latter to take the TV add...

Yesterday TIME Magazine announced Apple CEO Tim Cook had made a list of shortlisted candidates for the 2012 TIME Person of the Year Award. The winner announced this morning was President Barack Obama: Cook, "the Technologist" according to TIME, was second runner up for leading Apple during its most prosperous years. Apple is world's largest...