Stories by Gary Ng

Bell has announced new unlimited text, picture and video messaging plans, conveniently on the same day Rogers made their 'simplified pricing' plans official, but these will become available on November 9th. Check out these plans--they look eerily familiar: Bell's new plans all include unlimited text, picture and video messaging: $55/month 1000 minutes, 200 MB broadband...

Rogers has officially announced their new 'Simplified Pricing' plans on the Rogers Redboard. These plans were leaked early on the web and detailed yesterday: That’s why today, we are introducing new plans that better reflect how our customers are using their devices in 2012 and into the future. We’ve redesigned and simplified our price plans...

Left to Right: Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Bob Iger and John Lasseter  Pixar has named its main building after Steve Jobs, to honour the late Apple CEO that played an integral part of the animation studio as one of its original investors. Now, according to Pixar Times (via 9to5Mac), a Pixar employee tweeted out an...

The most successful thing Microsoft has done in a very long time revolves around their signature gaming console, and that experience is about to be extended to iOS devices by transforming your mobile phone or tablet into "a second screen that intelligently interacts with your Xbox 360 to elevate your entertainment experience." (more…)

Last week CIBC and Rogers unveiled their new NFC mobile payment solution (known as Rogers suretap), a combination of an NFC-SIM tied to your CIBC VISA or MasterCard credit card account for transactions. Both companies claimed it was the first mobile credit card transaction in Canada.  PayPal wrote to us and explained they weren't amazed by...

EA has released some data on their hit game, The Simpsons: Tapped Out. The game was released in February of this year, pulled due to 'server issues' in March, then re-released in mid-August. It's a pretty awesome port of the hit TV show interpretation to iOS and I can see why it would be popular....

I think we've all seen this before when talking about Apple with the haters. Posted by Farley (via The Loop): The Apple haters’ stages of grief go something like this: Predict failure of new Apple product Attribute early success of new Apple product to rabid fanbois affected by the reality distortion field Attribute longer term success of product to...

Less than a week ago word leaked Rogers was set to announce new 'Simplified Pricing' plans that featured unlimited talk, text and various data buckets. The exact pricing for these plans have been revealed as noted by MobileSyrup, which says there are 7 plans in total. There are 3 talk and text plans that come with...

Some of you are purists, preferring the iPhone 5 just as nature (Apple) intended: sleek, light and beautiful in all of its aluminum-backed glory. Many of you will fall into another category: you have children, a job that has you constantly on the go, outdoor hobbies or maybe just butterfingers. If you fall into that...

Once in a long while, on a very special day, you can be shoe shopping and try on a pair that feels amazing... almost as if you've owned those shoes forever and broken them in and made them yours and... forgive me, I've digressed. The point is, sometimes something new will surprise you by fitting...

Rovio is set to release its much anticipated Angry Birds Star Wars game on November 8th and this morning has posted its official gameplay trailer to YouTube. Check it out below: The company has also released other teasers from before, such as ones including Star Wars characters such Luke & Leia, Hans Solo and Chewie,...

Facebook has release its 5.1 update to its iOS app to include an easier way to chat with friends and a better way to share multiple photos: What's New in Version 5.1Now it's easier to chat with your friends and share multiple photos.• Swipe left anywhere in the app to quickly see who's available and...