Stories by Gary Ng

Rogers has announced further expansion of its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in cities around Montreal (Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil) and also plans to expand to 25 more cities this year, and ultimately reaching more than 20 million Canadians by the end of the year. The Rogers LTE network launched last July in...

Earlier we told you about a Corona 1.0.6 update to address a DRM issue with iBooks. The iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of redsn0w 0.9.10b5 for download to address these issues: Update #5: redsn0w version b5 incorporates yet another fix for iBooks, this time involving DRM. @planetbeing wrote a utility called “crazeles” that...

This past week, Bell quietly launched their new Mobile TV app in the iTunes App Store. Bell Mobile TV is currently one of the featured apps if you browse the store from your iPhone or iPod touch so we thought we'd take a closer look at exactly what the telecom giant has to offer. Bell...

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...