Stories by Gary Ng

Apple is widely expected to announce the next iPhone on September 12th, as noted by numerous publications. We've seen numerous leaked parts to give us a glimpse of what might come in terms of design, but for the technical aspects you won't read a better breakdown other then the one just published by AnandTech. Brian...

After surpassing 10 million messages handled per day, WhatsApp Messenger has been updated today with encryption for all messages send over WiFi and mobile networks. The team noted in twitter they had implemented "encryption for some time now," but this latest update makes it publicly stated. Other new features include a better message forwarding picker...

Apple's EasyPay service provides a much quicker and easier way of paying for Apple store products while in-store. Waiting in-line can be a pain, but EasyPay allows customers to purchase products directly from their iPhone without even stepping in line. The process is easy, just scan the barcode of the products and pay using the...

A Mac computer is light-years ahead of a Windows computer in terms of security, they do however experience rare exploits a few times a year. Earlier this year nearly 600,000 Macs were affected by Flashback malware, spread through Java. Only days later, a trojan called 'LuckyCat' took advantage of an exploit in Microsoft Word on...

With Twitter's latest announcement, they've added a limit to the amount of users a third-party application can support. The limit allows up to 100,000 user tokens, anything beyond will have to be negotiated with Twitter. Due to the changes, Tapbots has removed the download link to its Tweetbot for Mac Alpha application and released the following...

Apple has announced the promotion of Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio to senior vice presidents, to join the executive management team at Apple, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Moreover, Bob Mansfield was noted to remain at Apple even though he 'announced' his retirement in June. As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will...

The Verge reports on the Samsung devices Apple seeks to ban in the U.S., as noted in their court filing: "Apple respectfully submits the following chart, reflecting the eight out of the twenty-eight adjudicated infringing products for which it seeks a preliminary injunction pending a final injunction..." Galaxy S 4G Galaxy S2 (AT&T) Galaxy S2...

Flurry, a mobile application analytics company, decided to study just how fast iOS and Android devices were growing these days. So they compiled data and provided us with some interesting facts and charts. In effort to prove their point, read the following facts: Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that...

We reported yesterday that AT&T was holding a vacation blackout September 21st to September 30th based off a Techcrunch report, but now it turns out it may have been a  simple rumor. With a similar Verizon report a few weeks ago, we were nearly assured the accuracy of the report. Fellow Apple blog 9To5Mac decided to contact...

With the Apple vs. Samsung case coming to a brutal end for Samsung this past Friday, what's to come next? Apple's stocks have already soared above and beyond $680 this morning, hitting a new all-time high. While all is good for Apple, Samsung is suffering as their market value plummeted 12 billion due to the loss....

We've showed you the email Tim Cook sent out to Apple employees over winning  the verdict at the California court, now it's time to present the Samsung version. In the memo, Samsung begins telling employees how the case began in the first place. The company then basically states the U.S. court was wrong, and court...

A set of leaked next-generation iPhone alleged photos have hit the internet, and were highlighted by the Apple.pro blog. At hindsight, I wasn't going to post these because we've seen the same old leaked images in the past, but then Japanese blog Macotakara pointed out an unrecognized chip on the iPhone, claimed to offer NFC capabilities. The claimed...