Stories by Gary Ng

Apple's iPhone 5 launch was last Friday and most Apple stores around the world had customers wrapped around the building. AwesomenessTV on Youtube decided to take advantage of the situation and dress up as an Apple Genius employee. With this type of opportunity he could have played a span of pranks, but instead decided to...

Typically when companies release a new operating system it's suppose to add features that the user-base will enjoy. When Apple released iOS 6, that was the situation for the most part, other than the new maps application everyone is grouching about. On Device, a mobile customer research firm, held a survey over the past week...

According to a recent anonymous source that has talked to Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple was caught red-handed purchasing a large 'sample' of carbon fiber parts. It is unknown what type of product Apple is testing this carbon fiber with, but we will go over one possibility below. First off, here are the exact words of our source:...

The iPhone is just like any other mobile device or product on earth; the beginning phase begins deep down inside earth. We've all learned about the periodic table in school, and the iPhone just so happens to include a range of elements found on the chart. The photo above is of a mine located in Mountain Pass,...

If you have ever played a Gameloft mobile game, you would be impressed. These games easily take your device's GPU to the max by displaying intense gameplay graphics. Modern Combat has been one of the most popular releases by the company, and today they have released a trailer previewing their upcoming release, Modern Combat 4....

As Myspace continues to dwindle away, Apple was recently denied a trademark to their orange iOS music application icon because of the social network. According to judges, people would confuse the iOS icon with Myspace's trademarked icon. The funny bit of the whole situation is that the graphics on the icons aren't even similar besides...

The Verge has the scoop from two anonymous sources about what really went down between Apple and Google over replacing the latter's maps on iOS 6: Apple's decision to ship its own mapping system in the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 was made over a year before the company's agreement to use Google Maps expired,...

The iPhone 5 now supports LTE networks, and Rogers, Bell and Telus have done their job in setting up LTE networks coast to coast, with ongoing expansions currently underway. I asked you guys to send in your Speedtest.net screenshots to us, and here are some randomly selected tests completed on Rogers, Bell, Telus and Fido....

A couple updates have been pushed out to two popular apps, Instagram and UrbanSpoon. The updates bring support for iOS 6 and the larger 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5. Urbanspoon brings some usability enhancements to the new restaurant map along with some bug fixes. The app looks great on the larger iPhone 5 display....

With Apple's new Passbook application on iOS 6, it opens whole new doors for companies. Although large corporations such as Starbucks and Cineplix Mobile are some of the first to incorporate Passbook into their company, Apple allows any company, or person to develop Passbook content. What Apple didn't do was develop an easy way to...

Looks like a Canadian airline has quickly jumped onto integrating Passbook as a check-in feature for its customers. Porter Airlines has posted on its Facebook page to announce Passbook support in iOS 6. How to use Passbook with Porter Airlines? 1. Web check-in from your Passbook-supported iPhone 2. Launch Passbook on your iPhone and boom--your...

Apple told us the 4-inch Retina display on the iPhone 5 has better colour saturation and contrast, but is it really true? Retinal neuroscientist Bryan Jones compares the iPhone 5 display with that of the iPhone 4 with a stereomicroscope on his blog. He place both screens on max brightness and then snapped pictures with...