Stories by Gary Ng
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...
Telus 2012 Q2 Earnings: $2.7B in Revenue, Smartphone Subscribers Drive Wireless Growth
Telus announced their 2012 Q2 earnings on Friday and revenues were up thanks in part to their wireless division, which generated 112,000 postpaid customers (a 22% increase from a year ago) and also saw a 27% rise in wireless data revenue. For the quarter, Telus generated $2.7 billion in revenue. Telus leads the wireless industry's...
Scott Forstall Describes The Early Days Of The iPhone’s Development
During day 5 of the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Scott Forstall took the stand. Currently as the Senior Vice President of iOS software, he described the early stages of the iPhone. He pointed out once again that the iPad was Apple's original project, essentially being constructed before the iPhone. But when the Cupertino company employees...
Does Mountain Lion Negatively Affect Battery Life On Macbooks?
As we all know, OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) was released over a week ago on July 25th. Many sources have reviewed the operating system and gave users the thumbs up to purchase. But quite a few users with Macbook Pro and Air computers aren't having the same pleasing experience. A large ongoing discussion on...
