Stories by Gary Ng

Poynt has updated their popular 'all in one' search app for the iPhone to finally include Gas Buddy prices for Canada. It was just last year that the popular Calgary-based search app surpassed 9 million users. According to their press release: "GasBuddy provides a community for users to share information on local gas prices and...

Apple has announced it will hold a conference call tomorrow at 6AM PDT/9AM EDT to discuss what it will do with its almost $100 billion dollars in cash: Apple Conference Call WHAT: Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the Company’s discussions concerning...

Apple announced a refresh to the existing Apple TV to offer 1080p video and a new revised user interface. Physical differences between this refresh and the old second generation Apple TV are slim to none. The insides of the new Apple TV were revealed to have doubled the ram, 512MB compared to previously 256MB. Since...

For those living in Edmonton, your Apple Store at the West Edmonton Mall has just had their expansion plans approved, which will increase retail space by 4,230 square feet, with construction to begin soon, according to ifoAppleStore. Total square footage will reach 6,930, and expansion will move directly into the adjacent retail space, formerly occupied...

Yesterday and today Rogers tested out some 'Sponsored Tweets' on twitter, to promote their new service Rogers One Number, which we've reviewed previously. The new service is actually pretty cool, but when it came to this twitter ad campaign, customers turned the other way. When the @RogersBuzz sent out the tweet, customers started using the...

Apple has once again gained another accolade, and this time it is another familiar one because they have now won it seven years (shouldn't it be six?) in a row--the customer satisfaction survey from J.D. Power and Associates: For a seventh consecutive time, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction. Apple achieves...

Yesterday the Federal Government announced changes to foreign ownership rules of telecoms in Canada and noted details about the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. Feedback to the news has been mixed from newer entrants such as Wind and Mobilicity. Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera thinks the rules don't really change anything, but continue to protect the...

PayPal has announced their foray into the mobile payment solution by introducing PayPal Here. A credit card dongle plugs into the iPhone's headset jack, and the initial rollout of this new payment system includes Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Hong Kong. Here are the details: PayPal Here comes with our world-class fraud management capabilities, and...

Last night, Sparrow for iPhone hit the App Store for $2.99, but the highly anticipated email client was released without one major feature--push notifications. If you're shaking your head, you're not alone. Push was included in its beta versions for testers, but pulled by Apple because the Sparrow team was caught using an API reserved...

Update 1: Sparrow is now available in Canada. There's no push, but our Boxcar tutorial will help you work around that. Also, Exchange/POP accounts are not supported, only IMAP. == Sparrow for iPhone is slowly propagating worldwide across all the App Stores, as the highly anticipated iPhone mail client has finally been released. Originally created...

Apple preceded their new iPad announcement and debuted a new version of the second generation Apple TV, updated to support 1080p streaming, but at the same $99US price (Canada now sells the new Apple TV for $109, a $10 price drop!). New features include an updated user interface (also available to second generation users via...

Canadian advertising and PR firm Taxi yesterday implemented a creative marketing plan to advertise its iPhone app, Pothole Season. The app is meant to harness the power of the social community and turn reporting potholes on the roads of Montreal into a game, and thus allowing the city to fix them as the weather starts...