Stories by Gary Ng

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...

Just a quick update for those that have been waiting for an iTunes Card sale. Real Canadian Superstore currently has a coupon that will get you $10 off a $50 card. The coupon is good until June 21st and can be found within the current Real Canadian Superstore flyer. Here's a picture of where to...

Simon Wheatcroft was chosen to run as a torch bearer for the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games. There's one problem though--Wheatcroft is blind, but that won't stop him because his iPhone paired with the running app RunKeeper will make it all possible. "If you had asked me three years ago if training alone was possible...

Earlier we showed you a quick video preview of the new updated Siri coming in iOS 6, with tuned language support for Canadian English and French, along with local search support. We've had numerous queries asking about turn-by-turn directions in iOS 6 within the Maps app in Canada. Turn-by-turn directions appear within Maps, BUT... ...they...

It appears Telus prepaid users are set to experience some changes to their data plans. Customers have been receiving text messages from Telus notifying them of the following changes forthcoming to the Data plus messaging 20 plan, as noted by MobileSyrup: - Data will reduce from 100MB from 250MB. The price will remain at $20...

You know who MuscleNerd is, right? He's one of the high profile members of the iPhone Dev Team, well known around the globe. Normally he has stayed out of the limelight but now you can see him in action from a recent presentation he gave at the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference in Amsterdam...

The last time we posted about these iPhone 5 renders by Martin uit Utrecht, we have to admit they looked so real we almost believed they were genuine. That's a testament to Utrecht's skill and ability to make these gorgeous renders look so real. His latest iPhone 5 renders show the rumoured taller body in white,...

According to Peter Kafka's sources over at AllThingsD, Apple is set to introduce a standalone podcasts app when the final version of iOS 6 is released to the public this fall: People familiar with Apple’s plans tell me that when its new iOS 6 software becomes widely available this fall, podcasts will have their own...

For those looking to get an iPhone 4S with Telus, Western Canada retail chain London Drugs is offering the iPhone 4S for $99 on a 3 year contract, available on the Telus network. The regular carrier subsidized price for the iPhone 4S is $159 on a three year contract. This deal saves you $60, but...

TechCrunch reports on a new app called Carat that will attempt to increase your iPhone battery life--by telling you what apps to kill. Sometimes rogue apps cause unnecessary battery drain and by sending your anonymous phone data to Carat (they promise not to sell your data etc), over a few days the app will reveal...