Stories by Gary Ng

Update 1: Here's what Barack Obama had to say about Steve Jobs tonight in his reference to the tech sector: "An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work. It means we should support everyone...

Apple reported their 2012 Q1 earnings today, a record $46 billion dollar quarter. During the earnings call, Apple reported they now have $97.6 billion dollars in cash. The last quarter earned Apple $17.5 billion in cash during their record quarter. Apple clearly emphasized they are 'actively discussing' the uses of their cash balance, with nothing...

Apple has posted their 2012 Q1 earnings prior to their earnings call, and holy smokes is it a doozy. The company reported a record quarter of $46.33 billion in sales, and record profit of $13.06 billion, with international sales taking into account 58% of the revenue. Apple predicted they would hit $37 billion in sales...

Update 1: This new cancellation policy only affects customers who signed on after January 22, 2012. Existing customers aren't included, until they enter a new term. == Rogers has updated their cancellation policy as previously noted and a new blog post details the changes on the Rogers Redboard. We now see the emergence of new...

The last time we heard from Geohot, aka George Hotz, he had just started a job at Facebook. Hotz's claim to fame was being one of the first people to jailbreak the original iPhone, plus more recently being sued by Sony (they settled the case out of court). Business Insider's Boonsri Dickinson caught up with Hotz at...

A new report from Gartner notes the rankings of OEMs and their purchase of semiconductor chips in 2011. Guess who topped the list last year? Yes, your favourite company, Apple. They spent $17.2 billion in 2011, a 34.6% growth compared to the $12.8 billion spent in 2010. Apple just edged out Samsung (their growth was...

We first told you about Roam Mobility, the Vancouver-based company that offers affordable roaming solutions for Canadians heading down to the U.S. via their agreement with T-Mobile. Roam Mobility offers an easy way for Canadians to setup their own roaming plan prior to landing in the U.S. with cheaper plans versus roaming off the 'Big...

An update has been updated for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak tool, Absinthe. The popular tool has by now exceeded over 1 million downloads in about three days. Version 0.3 has been released and has been updated to include a version for Linux users, as noted by Chronic Dev Team member @pimskeks. As...

Virgin America has branded one of their jumbo jets with a tribute to Steve Jobs. On the side of an A320 reads the quote "stay hungry, stay foolish", taken from The Whole Earth Catalog Jobs mentioned in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech. The airline told MacRumors the name was decided based on an internal...

It’s that time again. Tomorrow, Apple will hold its usual quarterly earnings call. This one will revolve around the Cupertino-based company’s revenue and sales over the course of the first quarter of 2012, expected to be a $37 billion dollar quarter. In advance of this, Philip Elmer-Dewitt has put together his list of analysts' expectations...

Evi is the new girl on the block and she wants to be your new voice-activated personal assistant. True Knowledge has released their version of the assistant in your pocket. It’s a tall order, creating an app with the ability to convert speech to text, understand the context of that text and apply it to...

The iPhone Dev Team has released some official A5 jailbreak numbers in detail, as noted in a recent post titled 'Welcome new A5 Jailbreakers!'. Earlier, we noted the numbers mentioned by Chronic Dev Team member @p0sixninja, and these numbers are similar but in more detail: Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have...