Stories by Gary Ng

Samsung today announced their next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. Check out the specs chart below: The phone is rumoured to sport a quad-core processor. It will also sport a Siri-like voice capability called 'S Voice' (nice name btw) that will recognize commands when spoken to the phone, such as saying 'snooze' to silence...

Horace Dediu of Asymco has published a fantastic analysis of how the mobile landscape has changed. According to data sourced from company filings for Q1 of 2012, only three companies produced profits. Apple took 73% of operating profits, while Samsung had 26% and HTC at 1%. Dediu notes just two years ago the top mobile...

Update 1: Facebook Canada's PR company contacted us and clarified these new filters are only available to camera phones (non-smartphones): We just wanted to clarify this was just an announcement for the Facebook for Every Phone app which is only for camera-enabled feature phones. According to a post on the Facebook Brazil page, upcoming versions...

The Joy of Tech's best comic yet. Especially after RIM's 'Wake Up' campaign in Australia. BlackBerry 10 was revealed yesterday.

Business Insider spoke with one of the inventors of Liquidmetal, Atakan Peker about the prospect of Apple utilizing his technology in future products. What makes Liquidmetal special is its strong and durable qualities. Apple owns exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal in specifically for cases and enclosures. Peker recalls when he first noticed Apple used his...

YouTube user Mystery Guitar Man and his crew have put together a video cover of the song 'We Are Young' by Fun. With the guitar cover playing in the background, four iPhones are arranged in complex synchronization with lyrics being shown on the displays. The final video took 238 takes to get it right. Check...

The Pebble e-paper watch on Kickstarter has become the all-time highest backed project, and just broke $8 million in funding. The project's leader Eric Migicovsky was born in Vancouver. Now, RunKeeper has announced details on their blog about being approached by the Pebble team--and that RunKeeper will be integrated into watches when they are available:...

The man in charge of iOS at Apple netted $38.7 million in sale of Apple stock, as noted last Friday via SEC filings. Last month Scott Forstall, the senior VP of iOS had 120,000 restricted stock units from 2008 vest and sold 55,849 of those shares to offset taxes due at conversion. The remaining 64,151 shares...

As noted by The Next Web, some developers had experienced their apps being rejected by Apple due to a bug in the Dropbox SDK that allowed users to create Dropbox accounts and even access to paid upgrades--a violation of Apple's SDK policy on in-app purchases as it bypasses the 70/30 split with Cupertino. Developers noted...

Bloomberg reports sources tell them Twitter was in talks to acquire popular photography app Camera+, shortly after Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion. It was reported earlier that Twitter made an offer for Instagram, but was outbid by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The reason the deal didn't go down between Twitter and Camera+? Apparently the...

Image via Mactrast Whitey Bluestein's piece on GigaOM illustrates how Apple will become a mobile carrier and offer voice and data plans directly to the consumer. Rather than spend the capital to install cell towers, Apple would buy wholesale spectrum directly from its existing carrier partners, which would be hesitant to say 'no' to Apple based...

Apple has updated iLife for iOS along with their Cards app, to further add enhancements for Mother's Day, plus additional cards and new Get Well designs. iMovie: What's New in Version 1.3.1 This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues, including the following: • Adds the ability to access Help when...