Stories by Gary Ng

The Pebble e-paper watch has made Kickstarter history as the most funded project ever, surpassing $3.3 million dollars in pledges with still 31 days to go. We told you about the project prior to it hitting $1 million in under 30 hours. The project clearly shows that innovation is rewarded on Kickstarter. Here's an email...

We've long heard whispers of free online storage being offered by Google, but now The Next Web is reporting a free service is set to launch next week. Google Drive will offer 5GB of free online storage, and would set to rival Dropbox (which currently offers 2GB of free online storage) primarily and even attempt...

Today is 4/16, the unofficial holiday for Foursquare users to get their 4sqDay badge. The social network also announced they have reached 20 million users and 2 billion check-ins. Check in anywhere today and you'll receive the badge and read the following text: In 2010, foursquare fans declared April 16 4sqDay (4/4^2 – nerds after...

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...