Stories by Gary Ng

Looks like more evidence has emerged that Microsoft Office for iOS is inevitable and currently is being tested in Redmond. Mac4ever points us to references to 'Excel for iPad' when searching for custom number formats for Excel on Microsoft's support site, which points to the following result: Other queries noted by MacRumors on the same site shows references to Office...

Amazon has quietly launched the Kindle Store in Canada over the weekend. First spotted by the Digital Reader last Friday, Amazon's landing page revealed the debut of the Kindle Store to allow Canadians to purchase ebooks with their local account, instead of going through a US portal. For Canadian iOS users, this means it will...

On the weekend, Fido dropped their $57 unlimited promo plan by a dollar to $56. Virgin Mobile quickly followed and matched Fido, and now TELUS has let us know Koodo has done the same, as noted on their Canada-wide promo plans page: Earlier, we also noted Fido's $67 unlimited plan also was updated to include...

Looks like Apple Maps in iOS 6 has once again received criticism, this time from the Victoria Police covering the Mildura area in Australia. The latter issued a public warning on its website to motorists, notifying them to "be careful" on relying on Apple Maps within iOS 6 after numerous people were led astray and...

Bell is stepping up its game to target existing MTS customers in Manitoba to switch over by offering a free iPhone 5, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility, says this is the time for their company to try to win over customers in Manitoba: "Over our history there was connections...

TechCrunch is reporting Apple might be acquiring Snapguide, even though the latter's co-founder Daniel Raffel responded and denied any discussions with Apple: “Snapguide has not been acquired by, nor is in acquisition conversations with, Apple,” he said, “While we have a ton of respect for Apple, and love developing products on iOS, it would be...

AllThingsD is reporting Instagram has officially ceased support for Twitter cards technology today, as confirmed to the publication via a Facebook spokesperson (the latter acquired Instagram for $1 billion back in September): Instagram has completely turned off support for Twitter cards technology on Sunday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllThingsD. Users will still be able...

Rogers CEO Nazir Mohamed, speaking to investors at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York last Tuesday, told the crowd the company is seeing a turnaround in growth as users consume more data thanks to smartphone adoption and a lessening impact from smaller wireless entrants. Mohamed noted “clearly, the business has had an...

According to Brazilian Apple site Blogdoiphone, iOS 6.1 (as seen in beta 3) will ask users to create security questions and set a recovery email during the initial setup for an iCloud account. Example security questions include asking the user what their favourite children's book was and what the model was of their first car. Apple...

Looks like the former iOS 6 Wi-Fi bug causing data overages has received some media attention via CTV News BC. A report by CTV's Consumer Reporter Lynda Steele takes a look at a particular case that involves Fido, where customer Derek Finnamore was noticed increase usage of his data plan compared to before: "I had apparently used...

According to the CBC, the CRTC commission created to hear input from Canadians on setting up a wireless code has only resulted in over 500 responses from a pool of 27 million cellphone users: The commission is expected to issue a draft code by the end of next month, after which a second round of...

Earlier Fido dropped their $57 unlimited plan by a dollar to $56, and now it looks like Virgin Mobile has done the same to their existing $57 plan, reports MobileSyrup. According to an internal memo it reads: Starting Saturday, December 8th until store close on Monday, December 31st, our Choice 57 plan has become our Choice...