Stories by Gary Ng

With AAPL shares hitting an all-time high of $614.48, now is the perfect time to sell, right? Apple's stock market valuation already makes it the largest company on the planet, with a market cap of over $572 billion. SEC Form 4 filings today have revealed the Apple executive team netted over $314 million dollars from...

Popular iOS photography sharing app Instagram has come away with a 2012 Shorty Award for 'Best App'. Just what are the Shorty Awards? The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media, recognizing the people and organizations producing real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare, and the rest of the social Web....

Earth Hour takes place this Saturday evening to address climate change, and Telus and its team members plan to join the cause. In a press release posted earlier today, the company noted it will turn off lights for 60 minutes across its 27 major buildings across Canada: "By participating in Earth Hour, we are joining...

Now this is what you call the power of iOS and the iPhone/iPad. Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP has been nominated for Game of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards, as part of their total 11 nominations. What's impressive is this iOS title is up against console games from major game studios like...

All you Toronto Blue Jays fans are probably eager to see the new season kick off on April 9th versus the Boston Red Sox. This time, you'll be able to watch every single game from your iPhone via the Rogers Live Mobile app. According to the description, $5/month will get you 5 hours of data...

It appears Canadians will soon be able to deposit cheques from your smartphone camera, also known as photo chequing. The latest report from The Globe and Mail notes our 'Big Six' banks (CIBC, TD, RBC, Scotiabank, BMO, National Bank of Canada) have plans to introduce this new feature in Canada, according to NCR, the company...

The App Store hit 25 billion app downloads this year and once again Apple offered up a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the lucky winner, which turned out to be Chunli Fu from China. Now, it turns out Apple has flown the lucky winner from Qingdao (home of the Tsingtao brewery--yes, that beer) to Beijing...

Looks like some Starbucks locations have put out this week's App 'Pick of the Week' one day early. Last week we saw a single from Paul McCartney, and this time around it's one that all golf nuts will love (including myself), Golfplan with Paul Azinger. Golfplan retails for $4.99 in the App Store and features...

Apple is offering a new standard for SIM to which they hold patents called the nano-SIM. These nano-SIM cards would be thinner and smaller then the current micro-SIM cards. Apple's plans to introduce a smaller SIM card have been widely known. Fosspatents has a source that has shown them a letter from Apple to the...

The Inside iTunes team is part of Apple.com that details news updates, and tips from anything related to iTunes. Their newest site update notes the new features in iBooks 2.1, such as how to highlight in 2.1: New features in iBooks 2.1. In addition to the pleasures of reading sharply detailed text via the Retina display on the...

Tim Cook met with Chinese government officials in Beijing on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal: A spokeswoman said Mr. Cook— who is on his first trip to China since becoming chief executive of the Cupertino, Calif., company— "had great meetings with Chinese officials today." "China is very important to us and we look...

The 2012 'One More Thing' iOS conference is set to take place on May 25-26, in Melbourne, Australia, and marks the second year of the event. This year, there will be the main conference alongside two separate mini-conferences that will focus on code and design. The line up of 'One More Thing' features an impressive...