Stories by Gary Ng

TELUS has sent out an email blast to its customers notifying them the 16GB iPhone 4S is currently free on a three year term until November 11th. This model regularly retails for $79 on a three year term. You can bet Rogers and Bell will try to match this promo. The promo requires a $50/month...

Google recently released an impressive update to their Google Search iOS app to include better voice search capabilities. We noted the speed of the new voice search was actually faster than Siri, and now Gizmodo has put both to the test in a video to illustrate. Check it out below: Anyone out there using Google...

Almost three years ago Rogers and Fido released their My Account iPhone app to allow customers to check account balances, track wireless voice and data usage and change My5 or My10 numbers. The apps require a data connection to authenticate your account, but lately it appears both apps are not working for customers, giving messages...

Back in January of last year Sony had their iPhone app rejected by Apple as the latter changed its policy regarding in-app purchases. Now it looks like Sony has released their standalone Reader app, which according to The Digital Reader was promised more than two years ago by the company. Here's the iTunes description: Never...

Apple recently posted their iPad mini TV ad to their YouTube channel, which was first debuted at their keynote in October. The commercial shows the iPad as a piano with the iPad mini playing right next to it.  But what if there was a product such as the 'iMac touch'? Pocket Link posts a cool...

We're slightly delayed on this, but Apple's app Pick of the Week (from last Thursday) is the game Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor. Here's the description to whet your appetite:  You are a spider. One afternoon, you discover an abandoned mansion. Where is the family who lived here? What happened, and why did they...

Canadians love to communicate via text messages--a week ago the CWTA reported we sent over 24 billion of them in Q2 of 2012. This is also become the new norm for flirting and dating, according to Virgin Mobile and their recent study detailing "textiquette". LedgerWeb asked over 1000 Canadians in an online panel about their...

Back in August, Empirical Magic put out an iOS support matrix to support to detail what devices are supported on the various version of iOS. Today they let us know the matrix has been updated to support the iPhone 5, iPad mini and 5th generation iPod touch. It's a handy matrix to check out and...

Primate Labs has posted about iPad mini benchmarks showing up in Geekbench from five different models of the smaller iPad. Considering the iPad mini uses the same A5 processor found in the iPad 2, the results aren't surprising at all, with a score coming in at 745. Check it out below: The iPad 2 fares...

Equal parts military strategy and tower defense, Air Patriots delivers addiction every bit as strong as the developers at Amazon Games promise. You begin your journey as a rookie, a situation that will give you entirely too much confidence because as you work your way through to the Veteran and Pro levels, the game gets...

Anybody who read Apple's first attempt at an apology will agree with the courts in the UK: nice try, but do it again... this time, with feeling (or at the very least, with accuracy). The revised notice made appearances in UK newspapers earlier this week. (more…)

The iPhone Dev Team released redsn0w 0.9.15b3 a couple days ago (when iOS 6.0.1 was released) with improved bug fixes and also includes the ability for new iPad mini and iPad 4 users to save their iOS 6.0 blobs to Cydia. Muscle Nerd recommends users to stay at 6.0, but of course this is nothing new...