Stories by Gary Ng

Apple Facing New China Lawsuit Over Facetime Patent

Having finished paying out $60 million to Proview merely a month back ending the 'iPad' trademark patent dispute in China, Apple is now fighting Samsung in-court and will soon be dealing with another lawsuit. This latest dispute comes from China once again and is now over Cupertino's Facetime patent. A Taiwanese man claims that Apple's Facetime service...

Apple May Be Sharp’s Only Means Of Staying Afloat

  Sharp's days appear to be numbered. They aren't progressing too well as a company at this point, mainly due to their consumer business of selling televisions failing during current times. According to Reuters, Sharp is cash-strapped and may actually need to dump their television business to survive. Rather then continuing on as a consumer...

Apple’s Whole Product Lineup To Receive New Dock Connector This Fall

According to a report from iMore, Apple has plans to roll out the new miniaturized dock-connector to all its products this fall. The products receiving the update will include the iPhone 5, the new iPod Nano and iPod touch, the 7-inch iPad Mini, and the 9.7 inch iPad. The source failed to note whether the current product lineup,...

Apple Outshines Competitors With Revenue And Profit Margins

You may realize that Apple doesn't sell the most smartphones during each quarter, but does that really matter? This past quarter Samsung shipped out 50 million smartphones while Apple only shipped 26 million. Sure, Samsung had a significant lead, but guess who sells a wide-range of smartphones and profited bare-minimum from each sale. The answer is Samsung....

Nuance Is Bringing Voice Assistant ‘Nina’ To Third Party Applications

Nuance, the company that has brought you many voice recognition applications, including Dragon ID and Dragon Drive, is returning, but this time they're working on adding voice-powered 'Nina' to third party applications. They hope to expand to bank, insurance, and other large iOS (and Android) applications. To accomplish this feat, Nuance has launched a SDK for developers....

Photos of The Next Generation iPhone’s Nano-SIM Tray Surface

With speculation over the past few months that the next generation iPhone would come equipped with a nano-SIM card tray, some photos have finally surfaced. A translated report from Nowhereelse.fr has brought extended proof that these SIM-card trays are in production. Translated from the source: Presented as being designed to slip into the SIM card...

Enhance Your iPhone’s Battery Life With ‘BattSaver’ [Cydia]

If you're an iPhone user that is constantly experiencing battery drainage issues, you sure will enjoy this jailbreak tweak. Hacker @pod2g has pointed to a tweak by @xvolks called BattSaver. It claims to enhance the battery life of your jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5.0 or later. According to BattSaver's official website, the tweak will allow for double the current...

Apple Granted Hacker Access To A Reporter’s iCloud Account

Well, this is truly shocking. On Friday, Mat Honan, a writer for Wired, had his iCloud account hacked. This resulted in a number of emails and social networking accounts of his also being hacked. Once Honan was re-granted access to his iCloud account, he was able to trace back the hacker's steps through password reset emails. Keep reading...

Apple Seeks Interest In Social Networking Site ‘The Fancy’

According to a report by Business Insider, Apple may be interested in acquiring a social network dubbed 'The Fancy'. Similar to Pinterest, users of The Fancy can "fancy" products they find interesting. The only twist is the capability of purchasing the fancied product on-site. This allows the social network to also be labeled an e-commerce...

Find A Bite To Eat With The ‘Toronto Patio Guide’ App

It's the weekend, and best of all the summer. If you're in Toronto (or elsewhere), you shouldn't be sitting inside, go out and have a drink or bite to eat. It's well deserved after a week of hard work. Those who've had trouble in the past trying to find an enjoyable patio, think no more....

Apple Was Once Inspired By Samsung’s Clickwheel ‘Fashion Phone’

While yesterday's court case revealed a bandwagon full of Apple's long-held secrets, an interesting email involving Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tony Fadell surfaced. It turns out Samsung's allegations remarking that both companies were inspired by each other, may actually hold true. The email exchange was first sent from Steve Jobs to Apple's Senior Vice...