Stories by Gary Ng

Google Search iOS App to Soon Be Able to Answer Questions Like Siri

Google has announced today the launch of their Knowledge Graph in Canada and around the world. The Knowledge Graph is described as "more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them". On top of this announcement, Google also noted an upcoming update of the Google Search iOS...

Fido Launches New ‘Smart’ and ‘Max’ Voice and Data Plans

Fido has launched new Smart and Max voice and data plans today. The new plans range from $40 to $80 with the amount of data, minutes and calling features being the difference. Details below... Smart Plans - all include Call waiting, conference call, unlimited international texts, circle calling, 5pm evenings, and no system access fees. $40:...

Consumer Study Finds Interest In Apple Branded Television Near 50 Percent

The Apple television set has long been rumored as an upcoming Apple product release. Analysts have predicted a launch anywhere from this holiday season to even a year from now. Although I am yet to believe an Apple TV set is coming, analyst Piper Jaffray has kept his belief strong. Jaffray held a survey consisting of 200 consumers from the midwest of the United States. When consumers...

Apple Set To Become Largest Gaming Platform By 2013 [Analyst]

When you think of iOS, is the first thing that comes to mind gaming? Not for me, but I may admit, I have many friends that mainly game on their devices. I tend to lean more towards email, texting, social networking, and music. The marketing job of handheld gaming on iOS has been phenomenal. Since...

Starbucks App Pick of the Week: Comic Creator Halftone [Promo Codes]

This week's Starbucks App Pick of the Week is Halftone ($0.99 value), the app that enables you to create comics out of your photos. The app is universal for the iPhone and iPad and has some pretty cool features such as face detection for images and more than 25 paper styles and stamps along with...

Apple Suspends Password Resets Over-The-Phone After iCloud Hacking

Over this past weekend we reported that writer Mat Honan had quite a few of his personal online-accounts hacked, all due to a lack-of-security with Apple support. I'm not going to blame Apple directly because mistakes happen, but they now are working to add additional security to over-the-phone password resets. For the time being, all...

This Samsung Report Details How to Be More Like the iPhone in 126 Steps

Yesterday Apple submitted evidence in court that could be the 'smoking gun' to further detail how Samsung copied the iPhone. An internal 132 page Samsung document from 2012 was translated from Korean into English details specific iPhone features side by side to the Samsung Galaxy S, as noted by AllThingsD. Every single aspect of the...

Samsung’s Icons Are “Substantially Similar” To Apple’s, Says Designer

While Apple continues to pile up evidence in the court-case against Samsung, a former Apple graphic designer, Susan Kare, has mistaken a Samsung phone for an iPhone. Kare, who designed icons for the original Mac, was brought to the stand to tell her story. She testified on Tuesday, describing all eleven of Samsung's smartphones icons “substantially similar”...