Stories by Gary Ng

Canadians Responsible For Fourth Most App Downloads Over The Holidays

Flurry, the world’s leading mobile application analytics platform, has released their holiday season app store download data with some interesting revelations. Flurry finds that the last week of 2011 saw 20 million iOS and Android activations and 1.2 billion applications downloaded over what’s being dubbed the holiday “power week.” That number represents a %60 increase...

Netflix Canada to Debut Original Series ‘Lilyhammer’ on Feb. 6th

Today Netflix announced in a press release it delivered more than 2 billion hours of content watched by 20 million members across 45 countries in the fourth quarter. Netflix Canada recently surpassed 1 million subscribers. Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings: "Netflix delights members by giving them choice, convenience and control over the entertainment they...

President Obama Joins Instagram–Where’s PM Stephen Harper?

Back in September, Instagram hit their 10 Millionth user. Yesterday, the popular app had another important user milestone; the President of The United States. Instagram is a photo sharing app that allows you to edit and upload your photos and then interact with other users in many of the same ways Twitter does. The differences...

Rogers/Fido Prepaid Data Passes to Receive New Prices Starting Feb. 6th

Update 1: Rogers will also be applying the same prepaid data pass changes as well. (Thanks Jonathan!) == Fido Prepaid Data Passes are set to receive a new price overhaul as of February 6th, 2012. These data passes are available daily and weekly for prepaid customers that want to use small amounts of data with...

Telus Releases Optik TV Remote App Update to Address iOS 5 Crashes

More and more cable companies are offering iPhone apps to allow customers to control their PVRs. The Telus Optik TV remote was released last Fall, and was eventually updated for iOS 5 last October. However, customers still reported issues with the app crashing incessantly even with the iOS 5 update. Just yesterday, Telus released a...

The Zen of Steve Jobs Comic Book Launched by Forbes

Forbes contributor Caleb Melby and JESS3 CEO Jesse Thomas launched their much anticipated illustrated novel, The Zen of Steve Jobs last month. The comic book takes a closer look at the relationship Steve Jobs had with the Zen Buddhist, Kobun Chino Otogawa, with a mixture of fact and fiction: Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who...

iTunes 12 Days of Christmas Day 10: Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen VS

We're onto Day 10 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas and today's offering is the game Hell's Kitchen, starring the short tempered chef, Gordon Ramsay. Here's the iTunes description: You and a friend can experience the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere simultaneously! Now blue-tooth enabled, battle head to head in an arcade style kitchen challenge! Hell’s...

Jeff Broderick Releases QuickWiFi to Easily Share Network Credentials

Jeff Broderick previously released those beautiful easy to save iOS shortcuts for iOS 5.0, and now he's back with another cool tweak. Called QuickWiFi, it allows you to easily share your network credentials by providing visitors with a verified WiFi profile to install on their iOS devices or Mac. All you have to do is...

Apple January Event to Focus on iTunes University, Education, and Textbooks?

With rumours swirling regarding Apple's upcoming media event this month in New York City, further information has surfaced about what could be detailed at this event by Clayton Morris from Fox News: This event will focus on iTunes University and Apple in education I learned of the event back in September when it was originally scheduled for...

iTunes 12 Days of Christmas Day 9: Four Songs from Hedley

Day 9 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas has arrived, and after today there's only three days left to go. Today's freebie consists of four singles from the Vancouver punk-pop band, Hedley. Here are the songs available plus a video: Gunnin' For the Nights I Can't Remember Perfect Beautiful Video: Perfect   The runner...