Stories by Gary Ng

Bitly has announced a new web interface plus the launch of their iPhone app. Part of the new look has turned the link shortening service into a focused social bookmarking site, similar to what we've seen from Pocket. Bitly told TechCrunch they receive roughly 300 million clicks on their links daily, which works out to...

For all the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fans out there, you'll be pleased to know Netflix has announced an expansion of content to its Canadian library. Recent and classic UFC events, highlights series, and the reality show "The Ultimate Fighter" will be available along with fights featuring Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones and Canadians...

Here's Monday evening headline, courtesy of the Toronto Star: "Man strikes nun with car then has iPhone stolen" …and here's the story: A nun on her way to Sunday mass was injured when her car was hit by a vehicle that drove through a red light. The collision happened at about 6 a.m. at Keele...

iFrogz is a company that makes iOS accessories along with headphones that is now part of the ZAGG family. So that means they also qualify for the awesome 50% off Memorial Day sale, just like ZAGG.com. Everything on the iFrogz.com website is half price, and that includes iPhone/iPad/iPod touch cases, the iFrogz Boost audio speaker, their...

The New York Times has an apparent scoop in regards to Facebook's plans to release a smartphone in the future. The kicker? The social network has hired former Apple software and hardware engineers to make it happen: Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people...

It's the Memorial Day long weekend down in the USA, and ZAGG is celebrating by holding one of their biggest sales of the year. Their Memorial Day sale for 2012 features 20% off cases and keyboards (which never go on sale) and 50% off everything else (invisibleSHIELDS, ZAGGsparq chargers, ZAGGskins, etc). The discounts will show...

Absinthe 2.0 was released to the world the other day to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 untethered, thanks to the incredible work of @pod2g, the Chronic Dev Team, @planetbeing, @pimskeks and more. Updated versions 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (updated for the newest iOS 5.1.1 firmware for the iPhone 4) have been released, but the jailbreak process is more...

Electronic Arts has once again noted an upcoming Memorial Day sale, where you can get iOS games for up to 90% off. This is the biggest sale of the year with almost 50 App Store titles on sale: So celebrate your extra day off with extra savings on some of your favorite EA games. Hit...

In April, Apple along with seven other publishers were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice, accused of ebook price collusion. Apple and the accused disrupted the traditional wholesale model, where prices are determined by retailers such as Amazon. Instead, the agency model was adopted (with Steve Jobs playing a hand in the role) where...

Earlier this morning we saw the release of Absinthe 2.0 to jailbreak your iOS devices on iOS 5.1.1. As always, initial releases always reveal bugs and updates get released to squash them. @pimskeks tweeted out that Absinthe 2.0.1 has been released with to fix a hang in certain situations: #Absinthe 2.0.1 is out fixing a...

For those following Apple's @AppStore twitter account, you probably noticed a tweet last evening that promoted Cut the Rope: Experiments as their 'Free App of the Week'. Cut the Rope: Experiments is our #FreeAppoftheWeek. Go to the App Store for your free download. tw.appstore.com/uUj — App Store(@AppStore) May 24, 2012 This can also be seen...

The Verge has posted a comparison video that puts Apple's Siri versus Samsung's S Voice. The latter was introduced by Samsung when they debuted their latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III. Early on many noted S Voice 'resembled' a clone of Siri on the iPhone 4S. Cosmetics put aside--how do both of these...