Stories by Gary Ng

Just a day and half before the announcement of the iPhone 5 at Apple's media event, leaked pre-production cases for the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini have been posted to the web. MacRumors reports one of their readers has sent in a picture of the purported cases, and compares them to an iPhone 4S and...

Apple has been slowly distancing itself from Google integration within iOS. Back in early August, iOS 6 Beta 4 revealed the native YouTube app was set to disappear, and subsequently Google was set to introduce a native YouTube iOS app. Well, that day has arrived. YouTube for iPhone has finally hit the App Store: Watch the...

According to a report by Digitimes, Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, announced their consolidated revenues for August ($7.5 billion USD), but experienced a drop of 10.6 percent for the month. The reason for the August decline? According to "market watchers" the drop is related to a "major client transitioning its existing smartphone...

The iPhone event is knocking on our doorstep as Wednesday at 10:00 AM Tim Cook will take the stage at the Yerba Buena Center. With the amount of leaks and rumours throughout the past few months, we have constructed an iPhone 5 rumour roundup. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and read on for the details....

Apple is actively working to enhance their iCloud Beta website as today they've added and upgraded five web-based applications. We have the Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, and Find My iPhone web-apps all receiving minor upgrades. We previewed a few of the upgrades back during July, if you remember. This is simply an overview of the features...

Marketwatch reports the upcoming iPhone 5 could be worth up to $3.2 billion dollars to the U.S. economy in the Q4 period, according to J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli. He predicts 8 million iPhones sold in the fourth quarter, and with an assumed price of $600 per device plus $200 worth of imported goods per...

In a recent video interview with The Globe and Mail, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about Canada's capped internet plans compared to the rest of the world. We transcribed one of the most interesting questions posed to Hastings about Netflix doing business in Canada: The Globe and Mail's Omar El Akkad: How difficult is it...

Apple and Amazon can be considered two competitors in the tablet market, yet the two companies offer varying sized devices. Apple obtains a majority of its profits from the ridiculously high priced devices on the market. Amazon tends to price devices low hoping to bank on sales of e-books, music, apps, etc. Now who has the better...

Carriers throughout Canada and the United States are known for having a selection of paid and free phones for consumers to choose from. The iPhone 3GS for example; when the iPhone 4S was released, the price dropped to free. Our carriers can do this courtesy of long-term two-to-three year contracts. When the iPhone is announced...

Numerous accessory makers are gearing up for the launch of the iPhone 5 this Wednesday, and Toronto's iSkin is ready for the launch: “Apple practically announced the iPhone 5 with its Sept. 12th press invitation,” says Andrew Ackloo, CEO of iSkin. “It’s going to be the most feature-packed iPhone launch in Apple’s history, and we...

NBC News reports exclusively the previously leaked 1 million Apple UDIDs by Antisec did not come from an FBI laptop, but rather stolen from a Florida publishing company called Blue Toad, as discovered by researcher David Schuetz, who tipped the company: Paul DeHart, CEO of the Blue Toad publishing company, told NBC News that technicians...

The Korea Times reports Samsung will indeed sue Apple over the upcoming iPhone 5 based on infringing on LTE patents: Samsung Electronics said Monday that it will sue Apple over its release of the iPhone 5 for infringing on its fourth-generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity patents, according to ranking officials. ``It’s true that Samsung...