Stories by Gary Ng

The Transit app is a creation out of Montreal and offers elegant bus route info for Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City. It's a free download that utilizes your location to bring you full bus schedules including routes and departure times. The app uses live data from the GTFS Data Exchange, so any transit agency listed...

Nike+ Running (formerly Nike+ GPS) has been updated to 4.0, and along with comes a new interface and features. For the runners out there, Nike+ Running will keep track of each run along with details such as distance ran, calories burnt, and your average pace. The new interface brings larger, clearer text that's easier to...

Earlier in the week we demonstrated how turn-by-turn works in Canada on iOS 6 on the new Apple Maps app. With the departure of Google Maps and the loss of Street View, many wondered if the newly supplied map data from TomTom in Apple Maps would ever include such a service. Numerous readers spotted camera-mounted...

This week's App Pick of the Week at Starbucks is Walk Tracker Pro, which was released a couple days ago. The app is regularly priced at $2.99 in the App Store but it's now free. The app description reads: Whether you are walking for leisure or trying to burn calories, Walk Tracker will track your...

Hot on the heels of Telus offering the 8GB iPhone 4 for $0 on a three year contract, now it appears Rogers has matched that promo. If you navigate to the Rogers website, the 8GB iPhone 4 in black or white now shows it's free after subsidy, but you'll need to sign on long term....

We've long heard about the next generation 'iPhone 5' to have a smaller dock connector (via iMore). iLounge also earlier reported their sources noted a smaller 16-pin dock connector. Now, TechCrunch has boldly claimed they have 'independently verified' the next iPhone will come with a smaller 19-pin port: Although the form factor and actual size...

Apple yesterday posted their WWDC 2012 session videos online for viewing in their developer portal. There are 113 total videos, ranging from iOS to OS X. They are also available for download in iTunes, with session lengths ranging from 50 minutes to an hour. If you are a developer and couldn't make it to WWDC...

Today Patently Apple points towards trademark applications filed in Canada by Apple for key iOS 6 apps and icons. Applications were filed for Guided Access, the new Apple Maps icon, Flyover and Passbook (for the name and icon). The interesting part of their report is the reference to the Vienna classification descriptors in the filing for...

With the 2012 Summer Olympics set to kick off on July 27th, the official London 2012 Olympic games iOS app is now available for download in the App Store. The developers contacted us to let you know it's completely free (there is a paid version) and you should download it to play some Olympic games....

Google acquired Meebo and all of its services back on June 4th, including its popular Messenger service. It quickly became known that Google was going to shut down the Meebo Messenger service, and today the team reiterated the closure in an email to its users and encouraged them to download chat logs: With Google's acquisition...

The Apple Store in London at Masonville Place is set to have its grand opening this weekend on June 23rd at 10AM, as announced on Apple's website. Just over a week ago we told you the new storefront finally received its white Apple logo and URL, a sign of an imminent opening. The store's location...

The Wall Street Journal details the stories of a few teen developers (out of the 150 free passes given out) that were treated to attend WWDC 2012 thanks to Apple. This year marked the inaugural opening of the event to 13-17 year old developers by Apple, part of their WWDC Student Scholarships. Phil Schiller, Apple's...