Stories by Gary Ng

For those looking for a quick iTunes Card sale, Food Basics currently has $10 off $50 iTunes Cards. Food Basics is based in Ontario so if there's a store near you, time to jump on this deal. The deal started on November 9th and is on until the 22nd.  For those that continue to fund...

Earlier today Apple kicked off its Black Friday teaser in Australia, and now that same teaser is live online for Canada and the USA. The teaser says you can shop online or visit a store (and use EasyPay via the Apple Store app).  The one-day Apple Shopping event is Friday, November 23.  Get ready to...

For those wondering, the second generation Jawbone UP wristband is now in stock at Apple retail stores in Canada (the Polo Park store in Winnipeg had stock; it's not up on Apple.ca yet). This new version of the UP was announced just under a week ago, as the company tries to recover from the snafu of its...

The 2012 MacLegion Holiday Bundle has finally arrived--you can get 10 great Mac apps for just $49.99 (a bonus 11th app is available to the first 5000 bundles sold only). All of these apps combined retail for over $540, but you can get them for 90% off as a bundle for just $49.99 (a savings of...

For the close followers of Oprah out there, she recently shared her love for the Microsoft Surface on twitter, but the tweet was sent via the Twitter app--from her iPad (via TNW). Is that wrong?  I wonder how much she got paaaaiiiiddddd (Oprah voice) to send out that tweet. Because as we all know, when...

Hardly anybody knows where Black Friday got its name (stories of businesses finally turning a profit for the year and such abound) but the reality is that with American Thanksgiving finished, the day afterward is the traditional start to holiday shopping. Now, with special thanks to the Internet, you don't have to be living in...

A week ago Apple's iPhone 5 online availability improved to 2-3 weeks from 3-4 weeks, and just now it has improved to 2 weeks in both the US and Canada online store. Below, you can see from Apple.ca the availability times have improved to 2 weeks for factory unlocked iPhone 5 units: Apple still offers...

Astral and Bell are back to the drawing board and have submitted a new proposal to the CRTC for approval. Previously, both companies had their merger proposal rejected by the CRTC over competition concerns, such as Bell having too much marketshare in some areas. Now, both companies have announced they have re-submitted a modified proposal...

You may have heard about an Apple specialist gaining some internet fame lately. Why? Because his name is Sam Sung (first posted on The Loop), and he works at the Pacific Centre retail location in Vancouver. Our sources have noted Sam is a cool co-worker. Check out his business card below: Happy Monday. 

In a crime that was originally likened to one seen in the Goodfellas movie, it seems more appropriate that the New York Post would liken it to the 'Dumbfellas'. Court papers identified that JFK Airport employee Renel Rene Richardson was behind the theft of a USD $1.9 million dollar iPad Mini shipment moving through the...

iMessage (and FaceTime) is currently suffering from another outage, as most of you probably have noticed by now. If iMessage is down, your message should be sent through as a text message. However, you'll probably get hit with a 'did not send' error then have to resend it manually as a text message. But what...

You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...