Stories by Gary Ng

This week Google announced a refresh to their hardware line up and unveiled the  Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The Nexus 4 is made by LG and sports a 4.7 inch screen that rivals the industry standard Retina display (326 ppi) when it comes to pixels per inch with 320. ...

Apple updated their iPad user guide yesterday to include the latest details for the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad. The 14MB PDF document can be downloaded here or accessed directly from your iPad by visiting http://help.apple.com/ipad in Safari (or via the iPad User Guide bookmark). When accessed from an iPad, the user guide resembles the...

Apple has posted their iPad mini TV ad, "Piano" to their YouTube channel: Introducing iPad mini. It's every inch an iPad. The commercial was first aired at the iPad mini keynote held on October 24th and also the same ad Conan O'Brien based a recent spoof on. Today was the worldwide launch of the iPad mini...

An SEC Form 4 was filed this afternoon by Apple to indicate their SVP and General Counsel Bruce Sewell sold 5,137 shares of stock yesterday at the price of $600 each, for a total amount worth $3.08 million. Apple's Leadership page bio on Sewell: Bruce Sewell is Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president of...

Apple's Podcasts iOS app has been updated with a couple improvements and some bug fixes. The most notable one is the immediate prompt when opening the app to ask if you want to turn on Auto-Downloads for your existing podcast subscriptions, as seen below: Full change log below: What's New in Version 1.1.2Podcasts 1.1.2 includes...

Today is the launch of the iPad mini and the 4th generation iPad. Earlier we reported lines were smaller than usual and after asking around, it appears some Apple retail locations have sold out of iPad minis: http://twitter.com/jm_boily/status/264480696154861570 http://twitter.com/jasonsnider/status/264470614742540289 http://twitter.com/RobinGambin/status/264460642189185024 http://twitter.com/cjohnson403/status/264451639488942080 http://twitter.com/trishussey/status/264451256637091842 http://twitter.com/kylemilec/status/264450539742445568 Did Apple just not have enough stock on hand leading to a...

According to a report from the New York Times, Twitter is going to add filters to pictures to compete with Instagram: In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobilecentric photo-sharing network,...

It was about a year ago that we saw the last big update to Evernote for our iOS-based mobile devices, so it is very exciting that we can now expect big changes for the app along with the huge refresh for other platforms. (more…)

Apple Stores now sell the Lightning to Micro USB Adapter online for $21 at Apple.ca and is available in 1-3 business days: The Lightning to Micro USB Adapter lets you connect an iPhone, iPad, or iPod with Lightning connector to micro USB cables and chargers to sync and charge your device. The adapter works for all...

Repair Labs has tested the iPad mini versus other iPad displays under a 150x zoom microscope. The iPad mini's display is compared to the iPad 2 and Retina display equipped iPad 3/4 and the results are shown on an HDTV to get a better picture of what the differences are. Here is the iPad mini...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft continues its new goal to start making its own hardware like Apple, and is testing smartphone designs with its suppliers in Asia: Microsoft is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the computer-software giant is increasingly...

A couple reports this morning have noted Apple is removing Emoji apps from the App Store, citing they are no longer required to unlock the icons initially made available to Japanese users. Emoji icons provide a plethora of advanced emoticons and was not supported natively until iOS 5. Prior to that, users needed free apps...