Stories by Gary Ng

According to The Province, a Surrey woman is suing Apple alleging the company has violated her privacy and security rights via their iOS devices. Amanda Ladas filed a lawsuit today in B.C. Supreme Court and alleges Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch tracks the movements of her and son--without them knowing: “Ladas is concerned that,...

The Wall Street Journal has a follow up article to yesterday's news of Scott Forstall being forced out of Apple. It has long been known Forstall had attributes similar to Steve Jobs, who first hired the latter to work at NeXT. A year ago, Businessweek profiled Forstall as a hot-headed executive that got things done even...

Over at the Fido Technical Community forums, the moderators there have concluded the widespread bug in iOS 6 related to data usage while being on Wi-Fi doesn't exist, as the team is unable to pinpoint the problem: Hi everyone, Fido has confirmed that there is no issue. The data issues (where Wi-Fi connected phones are...

Anybody who has used Windows for more than a few days will bite their tongue when they hear Ballmer state that "you'll find things on Windows phones that you won't find on iPhone or Android." That's exactly what we are afraid of: patches and updates and blue screens, oh my! Part of the joy with...

Apple's iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won't show up as "Delivered" and just hang. During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what's...

Apple has confirmed to The Loop it has delayed iTunes 11 until November: “The new iTunes is taking longer than expected and we wanted to take a little extra time to get it right. We look forward to releasing this new version of iTunes with its dramatically simpler and cleaner interface, and seamless integration with...

Apple has pushed out a minor update to its iOS app Cards to allow for an easier way to swap photos and also to fix a few bugs. Some users have experienced sent cards show up as drafts in their history and others have also suffered from the app just crashing. Those issues have been...

TELUS continues to expand its 4G LTE network in Alberta and today it has announced the launch in Okotoks and High River, as part of the company's plan to bring the high speed technology to more than 80 percent of the province by year's end. The expansion today is part of a $3 million investment...

According to Newsweek's 2012 Green Rankings for U.S. companies, Apple ranks in the 112th spot. Newsweek explains their methodology in determining the ranks of companies: To produce the 2012 Green Rankings, Newsweek collaborated with leading environmental research providers, Trucost and Sustainalytics, to assess each company’s environmental footprint, management of that footprint, and transparency. Although Apple...

Waterloo's Primate Labs has posted what they believe to be an early Geekbench results score for the latest 4th generation iPad--which isn't set to launch until this Friday, November 2nd: If this benchmark result is real (and there's nothing in the result that indicates it's a fake) then it shows that the new iPad comes...

Conan O'Brien and his team spoofed the iPad mini four days ago to explain why we needed to buy one. Now, he has released another video detailing the iPad mini and other iPads coming from Apple. Check it out below (via The Loop; requires Flash): Which iPad are you going to buy? There's just too...

The Wall Street Journal now reports on what was earlier speculated by Adam Lashinsky from Fortune--Scott Forstall was let go by Apple over his refusal to sign his name to the apology over Apple Maps. Moreover, sources note Forstall wanted to adopt a move we've seen formerly from Steve Jobs--not apologizing for its SNAFU like...