Stories by Gary Ng

Marc Garneau - Canada's first astronaut Liberal MP Marc Garneau recently announced in late November of his intention to run for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party of Canada. Yesterday on his website he announced his "Telecommunications Statement", which urges for increased foreign competition within our telecom industry to drive better service and pricing:...

The Verge goes hands on and exclusively reviews the Lapka (Russian for the word 'paw) iPhone sensor, which we previously covered back in August. This "personal environment monitor" comes with four various sensors to measure humidity/temperature, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies (EMF), and organicity. Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov explains their accessory: "Lapka is a set of existing...

Apple has pushed out a minor update for its Find my iPhone app to add driving directions to device locations, supported on devices running iOS 6 or later. Also, various buttons now appear separately in map view, specifically Play Sound, Lost Mode and Erase iPhone. Full change log below: What's New in Version 2.0.1 •...

Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in Quebec and Saskatchewan over the promotion of Siri as a feature of the iPhone 4S. The digital assistant feature had a limited launch in Canada with the debut of the iPhone 4S, which was misleading according to the proposed lawsuits. According to an article on...

Canada is a special place. Why? Because when it comes to subsidies on the latest smartphones, our wireless contracts are three years compared to just two in the USA and other countries around the world. With the CRTC recently announcing the results of their wireless code consultation, the results showed the top 100 'liked' comment...

After taking over as Yahoo CEO in September, Marissa Mayer offered employees free smartphones such as the iPhone 5 and more. Today on the company blog she is further making her mark by personally announcing the release of all-new Yahoo! Mail apps, which includes a version for iPhone users. The new apps are part of...

Will you be Christmas shopping online this year? If you are looking to order items from Apple online, below is a list of holiday shipping times for 2012 from Apple.ca. Apple notes midnight deadlines for both free standard shipping (left column) and expedited shipping (right column) options if you want your order delivered by December...

Just a quick heads up if you missed out on ZAGG's recent 50% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale (their site was overwhelmed by traffic). They have notified us of an impromptu 50% off sale on invisibleSHIELDs for the next 24 hours. This would be the perfect opportunity to jump on some protection for...

AgileBits has posted on their blog today a teaser for the upcoming version of 1Password 4. If you're looking for a password manager for iOS and your Mac, you can't go wrong with 1Password. It's essential for my workflow and it's one of the best out there. The AgileBits team is also a super friendly...

TELUS has filed a lawsuit against new wireless entrant Mobilicity alleging a TV ad aired by the latter is "false and misleading", according to a notice of civil claim filed with the Supreme Court of British Columbia filed on December 7th. TELUS alleges a Mobilicity ad spot contains three "misrepresentations" that damages its brand and that...

(Travellers were directed to the red dot; the correct location is the purple dot) Yesterday, Australian police alerted travellers to avoid relying on Apple Maps in iOS 6 after it led some people astray and stranded. Now, it appears Apple has fixed the error according to the Guardian: The iPhone maker updated the given location...

Twitter has announced an update to its iOS app to bring the ability to add filters to photos and edit them as well; reports on the weekend noted this feature was coming soon and it has arrived: Starting today, you’ll be able to edit and refine your photos, right from Twitter. The latest versions of...