Stories by Gary Ng

Earlier in June, Telus launched two concept business stores in Saskatoon. Yesterday, the company announced the launch of a similar store in Toronto: "Today's smartphones and tablets are loaded with technology and features that can help manage and grow businesses in ways we couldn't have imagined a few years ago, and we are evolving our...

Reuters reports Apple has been granted an injunction to ban Galaxy Nexus sales in the U.S., which comes to a blow to Samsung. Earlier in the week, Apple won a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1. According to Judge Lucy Koh: "Apple has made a clear showing that, in the absence of a preliminary...

Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray has published the results of an unscientific test to put Siri against Google text searches. iPhone 4S and new iPad users know Siri is able to return Google search results via voice--but how accurate are they compared to actual text searches? Here are the results from asking Siri 1600 questions...

According to a survey of 1000 iPhone and iPad customers, Bill Shope from Goldman Sachs estimates this vital customer base is worth roughly $295 billion dollars, based on the calculated lifetime value of each customer at $1,053 multiplied by an estimated installed userbase of 281 million. Other questions posed to users included how likely they would...

Remember Steve Jobs' 'thoughts on Flash' back in April of 2010? It turned the tech world upside down from that day on, and further supplanted the fact that iOS devices did not support Flash and Apple was not willing to put their faith into a third party company like Adobe. Critics leveraged the lack of...

The original iPhone activation screen Today marks five years since the original iPhone went on sale. It was only available in the USA, but Canadians and others were able to easily buy one down south and bring it home. After visiting the Alderwood Mall Apple Store in Lynnwood and having played with the iPhone a...

Another week, and another free App of the Week from Apple. This time around it's for all the young ones out there, the perfect sing along app made by Little Fox Music Box, Kids Songs Sing Along. The app includes three songs (they include Old MacDonald had a farm AND London Bridge) that feature over 100...

Earlier this afternoon a SEC filing noted the impending retirement of Apple's corporate controller, Betsy Rafael. Soon after, Apple issued a press release to announce the retirement of Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Bob Mansfield: Apple® today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will...

Security Exchange Commission filings today reveal Apple's Vice President and Corporate Controller, Betsy Rafael is slated to retire from Apple as of October 19, 2012. Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers (b) Betsy Rafael, Apple Inc.'s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal...

Today Vancouver-based Hootsuite has announced more apps to their app directory, and it now includes the popular iOS (and Android) photo-sharing network, Instagram. So for those that use Hootsuite to manage their social media on the web, Instagram can be installed as a tab alongside your other networks. You will be able to share photos,...

Google has announced the debut of their Google Drive app for iOS at their 2012 developer conference. Since the end of April, the Dropbox rival has amassed over 10 million users. All Google Drive accounts come with 5GB of free storage. Here's the iTunes description of its release: Google Drive lets you create, share, collaborate...

At day two of Google I/O 2012, the company has announced Chrome for iOS. Yesterday we heard Google Chrome was launching with the new Nexus 7 tablet, but later today we will see Google Chrome for iOS hit the App Store, available or the iPhone and the iPad. Users will be able to use Chrome's...