Stories by Gary Ng

Apple's former head of iOS, Scott Forstall was unceremoniously ousted from the company this afternoon via press release. Many have cited Forstall as the one to blame for the fiasco involving Apple Maps and other iOS shortfalls (Siri; small iOS iterations compared to Android). We earlier noted his emphasis on skeuomorphism in design, but now...

9to5Mac has obtained an internal email Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out to employees over today's executive level 'restructuring'. He notes Forstall will serve as an 'advisor' to him in the interim: Today, I am announcing changes that will encourage even more collaboration between our world-class hardware, software and services teams at all levels of...

It seems that Instagram is taking a break from being the primary source of photographs showing off our children or whatever masterpiece we've assembled for lunch today. Instead, the famous image manipulation and sharing app is busy acting as a front-line news reporter for Hurricane Sandy by way of over 10 new images posted every...

Apple has issued a press release to note SVP of iOS Software, Scott Forstall, and John Browett, SVP of Retail, will be leaving Apple: Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. [...] Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple. A...

Yesterday morning the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) updated their stats on the number of text messages sent by Canadians in 2012 Q2. This time around you sent 23.8 billion texts which eclipsed the numbers from 2012 Q1 (23 billion). Here are the highlights of their stats: More than 8 billion person-to-person text messages were sent...

Apple has released updates to Find my Friends and iBooks 3, the latter which was introduced at its iPad media event. The iBooks 3.0.1 update this afternoon "resolves an issue where iBooks may unexpectedly quit" according to the iTunes description. So if you've experienced crashing of iBooks, this update has your name all over it....

Google has announced its latest smartphone and tablet offerings to compete with the iPhone 5, iPad and iPad mini. The Nexus 4 was developed with LG, sports a quad-core processor, 4.7" display (320 ppi; just under the iPhone 5's 326 ppi), wireless charging and Jelly Bean, version 4.2 of Android OS. The Nexus 7 tablet...

MTS announced this morning they will soon support data plans for the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad to use their 4G HSPA+ network. Note this is not their 4G LTE network as it's still underway, which the company notes will be offered in Winnipeg and Brandon this year with further expansion across Manitoba coming...

Rovio has been teasing Angry Birds Star Wars over the past month, which is set to be released on November 8th. This morning the company uploaded the first video of actual gameplay to its YouTube channel--check it out below: ...but don't worry, you'll be slinging birds and waving Lightsabers around in no time! Until then,...

Patently Apple reports Apple has filed an application to trademark their Passbook icon with the US Patent and Trademark Office: The US Patent and Trademark Office revealed today that Apple filed for their new iOS "Passbook" application icon under application number 85762373 last Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Apple's trademark application states that the following is associated with...

Apple has completely sold out of their initial iPad mini pre-orders, as both Apple.ca and Apple.com now show availability as "2 weeks", and the UK as well. In Canada, initial orders for white iPad mini pre-orders showed 2 week availability from the start alongside the UK. Two days ago, black Wi-Fi models sold out in...

There are a lot of iOS games out there that tickle your nostalgia bone, but most of them are just 'twists' on the classics or updated and modernized versions of titles you played all those years ago. In the case of DONKEY.BAS, the game feels just like the original --complete with awesome 8-bit graphics and...