Stories by Gary Ng

Bell has announced its existing LTE network is set to expand tomorrow to hit seven more Canadian cities: Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, London, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. These cities will join the existing LTE centres of the Greater Toronto Area, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Belleville and Yellowknife. LTE speeds mean customers can get up to...

Telus has announced their anticipated Long Term Evolution (LTE) network will go live on Friday, February 10th in 14 Canadian cities. These include: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, Kitchener, Waterloo, Hamilton, Guelph, Belleville, Ottawa, Montreal, Québec City, Halifax and Yellowknife. By the end of 2012, their LTE network plans to reach...

iOS 5.1 beta has been available to developers since the end of last November, and currently sits at beta 3, released last month. When will the final GM release come out? According to YourDailyMac (via BGR), evidence within carrier profiles leads them to believe it will be Friday, March 9th: We today discovered that Apple...

Shoppers Drug Mart has a coupon available for customers to save $10 off $50 iTunes Cards, a 20% discount. Just click here to download the coupon and print it. The deal goes until February 15th. Other iTunes Cards sales are also upcoming at London Drugs starting February 10th (a similar deal), and also 7-11 has...

For those using aTV Flash (black) for their second generation Apple TVs, Firecore has just announced their 1.3 update that includes automated firmware backups and other miscellaneous features and bug fixes. The former 1.2 update was released back in mid-January brought various zoom options. It's not quite Valentine's Day, but we couldn't wait to show...

Today is Bell's Let's Talk Day, an initiative to raise awareness and discussion about the lingering stigma that surrounds mental health and illness. Olympian Clara Hughes is the spokesperson for the campaign: "Fighting stigma is critical to advancing Canadian mental health, and it's the first pillar in the Bell Let's Talk mental health initiative," said...

Queen Elizabeth II recently celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, 60 years of ruling the throne and to celebrate the Government of Canada has launched the Crown in Canada iPhone app, as part of Diamond Jubileeweek. The Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, James Moore: "Our Government supports commemorating important milestones in Canadian history, such as the Diamond...

Apple has notified developers via its iTunes Connect email blast of a couple important updates, including the requirement of Retina Display optimized screenshots and also a new notification for binary app sizes larger than the cellular network download limit size of 20MB: Dear _________, We would like to make you aware of the following: Required...

Update 1: Path's CEO has apologized on the company blog and an update has been released in the App Store to enable an option to opt in for your address book. Path is a hugely popular social network app for iOS users, created by Dave Morin, a former Facebook engineer. It was revealed earlier today...

Apple's implementation of Wolfram Alpha, the sophisticated search engine that can answer and compute questions you pose to it, has paid dividends for its creator, Stephen Wolfram. According to the New York Times, interactions from Siri on the iPhone 4S now make up 25 percent of all queries: Siri accounts for about a quarter of...

Telus made two official announcements today: Optik TV for the Xbox 360 that allows users to control their TV using their Kinect, and the Telus Optik TV iOS app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The Optic TV 'On the Go' iOS app allows existing Telus customers in BC and Alberta watch on demand...

The second season of AMC's The Walking Dead debuts this Sunday, February 12th. This zombie apocalypse series is fantastic and FX has just launched their Walkers Kill Count iPhone app to go along with the latest continuation of season 2. This app uses audio watermarking technology to allow you to play along as you watch...