Stories by Gary Ng

We've heard lots about the book Inside Apple written by Fortune editor, Adam Lashinsky. The book spills secrets about what working at Apple is really like, and on one of his publicity tour stops at LinkedIn Lashinsky gets asked a few questions from a former Apple employee. It's an interesting 50 minutes interview that makes...

Looks like another promo has emerged from Rogers to encourage customers to stay. Last December we reported on a promo where users called into Rogers and received a one month credit to their account. Now, it looks like a similar promo is back in an attempt to retain customers and to prevent them from 'porting...

According to the latest Strategy Analytics research report, Apple topped all smartphone vendors in 2011 Q4 with the most shipments, toppling Samsung. Apple won the quarter but the South Korean conglomerate still took down the 2011 title by edging out Apple by 4.4 million shipments. Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “While Apple...

Today the media has covered the extensive article published by the New York Times that covers in detail about the working conditions in China at various Apple suppliers. Apple CEO Tim Cook has now apparently responded to the alleged allegations, in an email to employees, notes 9to5Mac. Here's a snippet of the first part of...

In an interesting article, CNET is reporting on a poll taken by an organization called Lemelson-MIT, which tasks itself with celebrating inventors and their ideas. The group found that a collection of 1000 young people put Steve Jobs behind Thomas Edison as the world's greatest innovator. The pollsters were surprised to find that 52% of...

A patent covering the use of a touchscreen universal remote control has been published and the Apple filing suggests that the remote will govern the use of a number of specific products. The patent, uncovered by AppleInsider, specifically mentions the use of a “television, video tape player, video disk player, stereo, home controls, computer MP3...

Back in 2009, there was an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) in regards to jailbreaking smartphones, such as the iPhone. That is set to expire and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a petition to urge people to sign it and send a message to the Copyright Office to renew this...

The Steam Mobile iOS app has been released and is now available for download. The app was speculated to exist as reported last March, and will now enable you to stay connected to Steam from your iPhone. With the free Steam app for iOS, you can participate in the Steam community wherever you go. Chat...

Zynga has used Canada as a launch pad to debut its new game, Dream Heights (plus another game called Dream PetHouse). This game is based on the construction of your own tower, which comes across as a blatant rip-off of the hit game, Tiny Tower, developed by NimbleBits. You may recall Tiny Tower was chosen by...

The New York Times has an extensive piece that profiles the working conditions faced by workers employed within Apple's supply chain manufacturers. It's a lengthy article that goes into detail with accounts about conditions at Foxconn, such as issues of worker suicides. Other former incidents such as the use of poisonous n-hexane at Wintek are...

Ever wonder how much larger or smaller other smartphones are compared to your iPhone? Well, you can now do a straight up comparison on the web via the website Phone Size. Just add your phones (in our case, the iPhone of course), enter your screen type and size, and voila--the actual sizes of phones appear...

Rovio has announced you'll soon be able to play Angry Birds--on Facebook. The launch is set to take place on Valentine's Day, and will offer fans another way to stay addicted to the game. Squawk! Everyone's favorite furious fowl, Angry Birds, is coming to Facebook! Nothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like competitive pig-popping among friends!...