Stories by Gary Ng

Last November Translink released 'Next Bus Beta' for riders in Vancouver, a mobile website that tracked your bus in real-time. It provides handy GPS data from each bus, and is handy for riders, except the interface isn't the best and is downright ugly. There formerly was a Translink iPhone app but it was left for...

Ipsos Reid has released results of its survey of 46,000 Canadians that took place from August 2011 to January 2012. During this period, smartphone ownership was stated as 24% in August 2011 and grew to 34% in January 2012. “Clear shifts in brand preference appear when we look at the brands of devices consumers are...

The Street Food iPhone app is currently available for Vancouver, Calgary and Boston. The developers have added Toronto to that list, and Street Food Toronto will debut tomorrow in the App Store. The newest app will enable foodies to locate the following food trucks: Blue Donkey, Caplansky Deli Truck, Cupcake Diner, El Gastronomo Vagabundo, Food...

Reuters reports Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm have been ordered to face an antitrust lawsuit as they allegedly conspired to not 'cold call' and poach each other's employees. Five engineers proposed the class action lawsuit and have accused them of limiting millions in job pay and mobility in the tech industry for...

Just last March, the Federal Government announced changes to the Telecommunications Act to allow for foreign ownership of Canada's wireless companies, up to 100% of companies that have a marketshare of 10% or less. The decision was made to further increase competitioin--but does it pose a threat to national security? According to a letter marked...

If you're not on OS X Lion yet, then you are missing out on all the features of iCloud. To encourage and assist Mac users on older versions of OS X, Apple is now providing free DVD copies of Snow Leopard to users that sign into their MobileMe account here, as reported by Macgasm. Apple...

Do you toggle Bluetooth on or off numerous times throughout the day? If your iPhone is jailbroken, SBSettings takes care of that easily. In iOS 5.0.1, we were able to use the quick and easy shortcuts made by Jeff Broderick. That functionality was eventually removed by Apple in iOS 5.1. Now, a new app called...

Pod2g is back at work on a new iOS 5.1 jailbreak, as he noted last month. It was during this time he also confirmed he was searching for vulnerabilities within iOS 5.1. Now, it looks like some hard work has paid off. He just tweeted that he (along with the Chronic Dev Team) has found exploits for...

Brent Schlender, currently working for Fast Company has revealed his extended interviews he had with Steve Jobs since 1985: I had covered Jobs for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal since 1985, but I didn't come to fully appreciate the importance of these "lost" years until after his death last fall. Rummaging through the storage...

Greenpeace has released a report (as noted by AppleInsider) that targets the environmental impact of the growing number of massive data centres that store our data online in the 'cloud'. Apple is one of the companies criticized, and is included in one of the key findings of the study to use dirty energy: Three of the...

It's Tuesday, and once again we have a new 'Pick of the Week' from Starbucks. This time around it's a free movie rental, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. Previous weeks have alternated between apps and music, and this is the first time we've seen a free movie rental. Force of Nature was released...

Read It Later started five years ago back in 2007, and the service to 'read later' has amassed more than 4.5 million users since. The team realized their service had moved beyond saving articles and users had started to emphasize video. So to that extent, they made a major announcement on their blog today that...