Stories by Gary Ng

It was reported earlier by the New York Times Facebook had plans to completely overhaul its iPhone app with a 'blazing fast' release, set to arrive this summer. Now, Bloomberg further confirms the app is being improved and will be eventually rehauled--by a team of former Apple employees: This team from Apple has been primarily...

Apple has updated the Podcasts iOS app today with various improvements and bug fixes. Numerous users have noted laggy and buggy issues with the app that was released a month ago. As for new features, the number of new episodes now show up in your library and playback speed is remembered to name a few....

Apple has updated its iWork iOS apps to version 1.6.1 to bring iCloud support for Documents in the Cloud as part of OS X Mountain Lion. Essentially when you make changes to a document on your Mac or iOS device, changes will be synced in real time. What's New in Version 1.6.1 Pages/Numbers/Keynote 1.6.1 works...

Telus announced this morning it will invest $8.4 million over three years in Atlantic Canada to expand their 4G LTE network. To date, the company has spent over $45 million in Atlantic provinces since 2000, and the new investment will result in the creation of 65 jobs. Nova Scotia will receive $5 million in investments...

For users of the iTunes U iOS app (released in January), Apple just released an update that makes it easier to take notes while you're watching or listening to a lecture within app. Other new features include a much better search feature and a better way to share your favourite courses with friends and family....

It appears Apple has secured a number of patents from Canadian inventor Timothy R. Pryor (from Tecumseh, Ontario), with one particular patent granted yesterday that relates to multi-touch, notes Engadget: Described rather broadly as a "method for providing human input to a computer," the patent (filed in July of 2009) is a continuation of one...

With the release of OS X Mountain Lion this morning, the embargoes on reviews have been lifted. Here is a round up of reviews you need to add to Pocket, Instapaper, Reading List (maybe save these to read on the weekend while you blindly update today) or just read them at work if you've got...

As announced yesterday at their 2012 Q3 earnings call, Apple has officially announced the release OS X Mountain Lion in the Mac App Store for $19.99 via a press release: “People are going to love the new features in Mountain Lion and how easy it is to download and install from the Mac App Store,”...

Just a heads up for those that don't have WhatsApp Messenger yet--the app is currently available as a free download in the App Store. WhatsApp is one of the most popular cross-platform messaging apps and is still an important app on my home screen. Regularly priced at $0.99, WhatsApp allows you to send pictures/videos, voice...

Looks like the 6GB voice and data plans continue to roll out, this time it's from Fido, which looks to be similar to the plans offered previously by Rogers, Telus, Koodo and Bell/Virgin. According to MobileSyrup, Fido's own $60/month plan, available in contract and non-contract form will include the following: - 300 Daytime (local) -...

Attention London 2012 Olympic fans, ScoreMobile recently received a huge update for the upcoming Summer games. The notable feature includes push notifications for medal alerts for more than two dozen countries. Other features included are breaking news alerts and a micro site on TheScore.com (it's simple and pretty awesome) to allow you to keep up...

Rogers has announced their 2012 Q2 earnings this morning. Their numbers beat some analyst expectations and generated $3.106 billion in revenue and $1.276 billion in operating profit, both slight increases compared to the year ago quarter. As for wireless activations, Rogers noted they activated and upgraded 629,000 smartphone subscribers, one of their highest numbers in...