Stories by Gary Ng

Earlier we heard rumours of French designer Philippe Starck working on a 'revolutionary' project with Apple, which the company denied. Starck has now confirmed to the WSJ (as noted by App Advice) he is indeed working on the yacht project he started with Steve Jobs, but it is being continued by his wife Laurene: A spokeswoman...

The Toronto police have noticed cellphone robberies have risen over the the past three years and want the cellphone industry to do more to protect their customers, such as creating a database that can disable stolen cellphones, says Supt. Ron Taverner: “Our goal is to get the carriers, the providers, the cellphone companies to come...

image via Selectism Earlier today we heard about how French designer Philippe Starck mentioned on French radio he was working with Apple and that a 'revolutionary' product was set to be released in eight months. Well, AllThingsD got a statement from Apple and they have poured cold water on the story: Reached for comment, an...

A new app called CarrierCompare allows users to take advantage of crowd sourced info to compare the performance of nearby cell networks. For those of us in Canada, it will allow you to see a visual of whether Rogers, Telus, or Bell has the best signal in your area. SwayMarkets, the company behind the app...

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) has released updated stats for SMS and MMS sent last year in Canada. Roughly 78 billion text messages were sent in 2011 (it works out to 21.3 million texts sent per day): • Canadians sent 21 billion person-to-person text messages in Q4 2011. • More than 7 billion person-to-person...

Reuters notes sources have informed them of former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie's ambitious plan to offer RIM's software and services to carriers as part of a plan to turn the company around. Ultimately, his plans were rejected and Basillie parted ways with the company. Balsillie wanted to offer carriers the option of allowing non-BlackBerry devices...

image via gizmag According to famous French designer Philippe Starck, in an interview with newspaper Le Figaro, he mentions he is working with Apple on a 'revolutionary' project set to release in eight months. He also revealed he had met with Steve Jobs regularly to talk in Palo Alto (Google Translation): "Indeed, there is a...

A couple sales have hit the web for those looking to stock up on accessories for their iOS devices and more from BodyGuardz and ZAGG. Over at ZAGG, they have a limited time sale on ZAGGskins which are now 25% off. ZAGGskins essentially let you customize any image onto your iPhone, iPad, or any electronic device....

Remember the patent troll Lodsys that sued developers last May over in-app purchases? Apple responded to Lodsys to note their developers are protected under the licensed patents, which Lodsys cheekily responded to. Lodsys even ended up suing Rovio, EA and others later on in the summer. Now, FOSSpatents reports his sources have shown him the...

Apple has responded to allegations of collusion with other major book publishers surrounding ebook pricing. Here's the statement they released, as noted by AllThingsD: The DOJ’s accusation of collusion against Apple is simply not true. The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry. Since...

According to The Next Web, Apple has started to implement better security for its users. In particular is the latest addition of the requirement of filling in security questions and providing a secondary recovery email. In the past 24 hours, Apple appears to have started prompting iOS devices owners and those with Apple IDs within...

Pebble is an e-paper watch Kickstarter project launched by Vancouver-born Eric Migicovsky and his Palo Alto-based company Pebble Technology. In just under 48 hours, it has raised almost $1 million dollars. It currently sits at 7,290 backers and $988,423 pledged with still 36 days to go. Eric and his team have created an amazing e-paper...