Stories by Gary Ng

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!...

Apple has launched their Valentine's Day Gift Guide on their website, and it showcases a wide variety of products set to make your sweetheart love you even more on February 14th. The perfect gifts for your perfect match. Shop our handpicked collection of iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Mac gifts for Valentine’s Day. We’ll deliver them...

The same day Apple announced its historic $46 billion dollar quarter, Tim Cook reportedly fired off an email to employees to announce an Apple Town Hall meeting for the next day. As for those 'exciting new things' Cook wanted to talk about? Well, we now know according to 9to5Mac: Cook announced that Apple employees will...

Apple finds itself under legal attack from Motorola again, this time over patents related to the iPhone 4S and iCloud. FOSS Patents today is reporting that Motorola would have liked to have added these new assertions of patent infringement to an existing action which it started in 2010 but, apparently that case is already too...

Today, Michael Babad of The Globe And Mail pointed out some interesting facts revolving around yesterday’s 2012 Q1 announcement from Apple. It turns out that revenue in the quarter jumped from $26.74 billion to 46.33 billion during the quarter, which includes impressive holiday sales numbers. Apple Inc. sold 5.2 million Macs and 67.87 million iOS...

More Canadian Apple retail store updates are here (earlier we learned the London Apple Store had been confirmed via job postings), and this time it is for the all but confirmed location set inside the Halifax Shopping Centre in Nova Scotia. Earlier this month it was reported by numerous sources the store was definitely coming,...

In late December it was noted that London, Ontario was rumoured to receive an Apple Store in the upper level of Masonville Place Mall. Well, those rumours can now be laid to rest as Apple has posted job listings for the London store on its website, as seen below: The postings were listed on January...

Update 1: John Gruber disagrees with Seth W. from 9to5Mac and says the next iPhone is not underway, and calls the claim of a bigger size 'bullshit'. Next generation iPhone 5 rumours already? You better believe it because 9to5Mac claims a reliable source from Foxconn has provided them with the following information: 4+ inch display (made...

Fortune Senior Editor Adam Lashinsky's book, Inside Apple, is now available for download. We've seen numerous excerpts released from the book on the web that details how Apple 'really works'. Examples include how Scott Forstall is seen as the 'next' CEO-in-waiting, and also how Apple maintains its secrecy within. Here's the book description: INSIDE APPLE...

Are you an Instagram fiend? It is by far the easiest way to upload and share pictures with your social networks. What makes Instagram great is that it's simple and easy to use. However, one downside is if you want to check out your Instagram feed you need to do it on your iOS device....