Stories by Gary Ng

With today's report from AllThingsD about the iPad 3 being announced in the first week of March, it has pushed Apple's stock during intraday trading to an all-time high of $496.75US per share. Apple's market cap is now at 459.82 billion, and is close to breaking a half trillion dollar valuation. Apple alone is now...

Yesterday was Bell's Let's Talk Day to raise money for mental health awareness in Canada. The company asked people to call, text, or tweet for a 5 cent donation towards mental health programs. The result? 78.5 million texts, long-distance calls and retweets that raised almost $4 million dollars: Canadians responded with 78,520,284 texts, long-distance calls...

Foxconn just had a hacker group called SwaggSec gain access to some of their sensitive information, as of yesterday evening.  The information contained in the dump includes logins and passwords to various servers and intranet sites. 9To5Mac were able to find this from one of the servers: They also located the details for Foxconn's CEO...

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...