Stories by Gary Ng

When you're the world's largest company by stock valuation and a smartphone leader, everyone wants to take you down. We've seen it from Samsung and now Nokia has thrown their hat into the ring. Their latest commercial depicts animated dark characters lining up for the iPhone 5, but only come to life when they get...

Interbrand has released their annual report on best global brands and Apple has become the fastest growing brand with growth of 129% compared to a year ago. The company sits in second place just behind number one, Coca-Cola. Here's the Interbrand report on Apple: Apple (+129%): Despite Steve Jobs’ passing, consumers’ emotional connection to the...

Another week, and it's time for another Starbucks Song Pick of the Week. This week's offering from Toronto's Jason Collett, the single "King James Rag" from his latest album, Reckon (deluxe version), released on September 25th. Below are some promo codes for you to enjoy (here's how to redeem a promo code; thanks Matthew Santoro,...

After hearing about our U.S. neighbours on Verizon being affected by the iOS 6 glitch where cellular data is used when connected to Wi-Fi, it appears Canadian wireless customers are also affected, such as those on Rogers and Fido. We asked you on Twitter if you were being affected by this bug last night, and...

ZAGG has introduced a limited time promotion that will appeal to our Canadian readers--free shipping to Canada on orders over $29.98, matching the same deal available to the U.S. So anything and everything you order for the next two weeks will be shipped for free to Canada via USPS. The minimum threshold for free shipping includes...

Looks like Rogers has started a new promo called "Get a gig on us", where the following $63/$73 monthly plans get an extra 1GB of data at no extra charge, notes MobileSyrup: $73 4GB Promotional Voice and Data Plan: - 200 anytime minutes (local) - Evenings and weekends starting at 6PM - Unlimited text, picture...

As noted by FOSS Patents, Samsung has filed a lawsuit against the iPhone 5 by adding it to list of devices alleged to infringe on 8 Samsung patents, part of an existing claim against Apple being held in the San Jose federal court: Samsung seeks an order granting it leave to amend its infringement contentions...

The Globe and Mail reports the CRTC is ready to crack down on 'iCrime', the increasingly alarming rate at which smartphones such as the iPhone are brazenly stolen by thieves. How so? It wants our wireless carriers to setup a national registry to track stolen devices such as iPhones or iPads or other smartphones. If...

Last month it was noted Apple's social music network, Ping, was set to end on September 30th. Well, that day has come and gone. The social network was launched by the late Steve Jobs back in 2010 and managed to register 1 million users in 48 hours, but there was no real interest soon afterwards....

Apple has announced October 25th as the date for its 2012 Q4 conference call, set to take place at the regular time of 2PM PST: Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its fourth fiscal quarter on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. During...

Many iOS users are heavy Gmail users. The latter's iOS app was updated for the iPhone 5 recently and is still by far the best way to search for emails on the go. Now, it appears Google has added support to allow for searches of text within attachments, according to Google Operating System (via LifeHacker): The...

JailbreakCon 2012 took place this weekend, and a Canadian contingent was present there amongst the iOS hacking community. One of them was 17 year old Steven a.k.a. @iH8sn0w from Toronto. He has been known for his releases of popular jailbreak tools sn0wbreeze, iREB, iFaith and f0recast. Check out his presentation on stage talking about downgrading iOS...