Stories by Gary Ng

In an interview with ABC News, Mark Zuckerberg reveals the new option to add organ donor status to Facebook timelines available today in the U.S. and UK was inspired by the late Steve Jobs: Zuckerberg said he was further prompted make Facebook an important tool to encourage donors to register following the death of Steve...

RIM today kicked off their BlackBerry World developer's conference in Florida, and here they unveiled their "BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha developer testing device" for developers to test out the new BB10 interface. Here's what was unveiled in BlackBerry 10, seen as RIM's chance to get back into the smartphone game. The Verge went hands on...

A new report from Solutions Research Group notes Canadians have been quick to jump onto mobile banking apps, thanks to the explosion of smartphone ownership in Canada, which now numbers over 10 million, as documented in The Globe and Mail. We have numerous iPhone banking apps in Canada, with CIBC being one of the first...

Update 1: The Leader Post reports an Apple Premium Reseller is coming, rather than an Apple Store, as confirmed by Cornwall Centre's marketing manager. An 'iWorld Connect' store will be opening, which is a child company of Westworld Computers, also known as Canada's largest independent Apple dealer. The location will be near The Bay. Saskatchewan,...

Last August textPlus was updated to introduce free texting to Canadians via the distribution of free phone numbers. They eventually revealed over 381,000 numbers were given out in three months. textPlus was great for free texting between textPlus friends--but what about calling? Now, textPlus Free Calls has been updated to introduce free calling between Canadian...

Tweetbot has released an update today for its iOS app that includes some new features. The swipe gestures have now offer an easy way to see tweet details and to navigate back to the timeline. Swipe right to left to see more details and vice versa to go back to the conversation. This makes it...

George Hotz, known to many of us as 'GeoHot' made his claim to fame by hacking and unlocking the original iPhone. Since then he has played an important hand in numerous jailbreaks such as limera1n and blackra1n, but more recently his ability to hack then once unpenetrable Sony PS3 supplanted his claim as one of...

The big story of the day is Microsoft's $300 million investment into Barnes & Noble, a company they had previously sued over claims the latter's Nook e-reader that ran on a version of Android OS infringed on its patents. The partnership has settled the patent litigation, and a new subsidiary has been formed: The new...

A few days ago we heard about an awkward protest outside the Sydney Apple Store by a group of people dressed in black and shouting 'wake up'. Many were quick to allude the stunt was the brainchild of Samsung but the company later denied any involvement to SlashGear: Samsung Electronics Australia has nothing to do...

Now here's an interesting Saturday read. The New York Times has a detailed report on how Apple saves billions in corporate taxes annually worldwide. Other tech giants such as Google, Yahoo and Dell also follow similar practices. One particular method to save taxes is via the setup of a subsidiary in Reno, Nevada--where the corporate tax...

A Moncton math professor has created the ultimate putting aid app for golfers that utilizes the sensors on the iPhone to analyze your stroke. iPerfectPutt is a free download and features the following: The free iPerfectPutt features provide the following measurements of your putting strokes: • Swing tempo (backswing/downswing durations) • Swing plane deviation (inside/outside)...

More chatter of an upcoming 'iTV' has surfaced, based on Apple's apparent talks with Hollywood-backed EPIX to stream films to iOS devices and an upcoming Apple television, notes Reuters: Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is backed by three major movie studios, on devices including a long-anticipated...