Stories by Gary Ng

As part of Apple's education event today in New York City, Eddy Cue took to the stage to announce a standalone iTunes U app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app will bring easier access to the thousands of lectures and free education content. The app will also allow professors and teachers to...

Today at Apple's education media event in New York City, they have made some major announcements to disrupt the textbook publishing industry, as noted by Steve Jobs in his biography. Apple has partnered with Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to bring major textbooks to iOS. Phil Schiller was on stage to announce iBooks 2...

Do you have an original iPhone, iPhone 3G, or first and second generation iPod touch units lying around? Those devices were only able to update to 3.1.3 (iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G got up to 4.2.1), but whited00r 5.1 aims to change that. This software will jailbreak your old iOS devices and include specific...

Patently Apple reported yesterday that The US Patent office has granted Apple twenty-two patents and one of them is of particular interest. The patent appears to be a navigation and management system for episodic content from iTunes and television. The patent goes into detail stating that the system could: "Correspond to television shows that have...

A team of Canadian university researchers want your text messages to add to their pool of research. The project 'text4science' is a collaboration between Simon Fraser University, University of Ottawa, and the Universite de Montreal. The project itself is part of the international 'sms4science' project coordinated at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. What...

Toronto lawyer Michael Deverett purchased a MacBook Pro and iPod touch back in 2009. As he returned to his vehicle after stopping at a convenience store, his rear window had been smashed and his Apple goodies stolen. As the Toronto Star reports, Deverett ended up suing Apple: Deverett sued Apple, claiming that theft rings in...

The book 'Inside Apple' is set to hit bookstores soon, written by Fortune senior editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky (you can check out his Fortune issue Inside Apple here). Yesterday, we learned about how Scott Forstall is seen as the next 'CEO-in-waiting' at Apple. Today, a lengthier excerpt has been posted to promote the book. It's a...

A few notable app updates worth mentioning include WhatsApp, Netflix, and Action Movie FX. Let's see what these updates bring to the table... WhatsApp Messenger Last week WhatsApp was removed from the App Store as they had submitted a new version to Apple. This caused some hilarious hoaxes to pop up via chain letters (people...

  Back in November we reviewed the Wrapsol Ultra film protectors (plus a video install tutorial) for the iPhone 4S. These full body protectors are different from film protectors as they are slightly thicker and stronger. I've had my iPhone 4S application on since day one and so far, no peeling has occurred whatsoever and the...

In the past, we’ve had a look at both the Kudos Payments and the Payfirma mobile payment systems. Today though, a heavy hitter enters the ring, calling itself PAYD. PAYD makes a pretty strong case to start accepting credit cards on your iPhone (or BlackBerry or Android… if you’re into that). The service offers the...

Our recent story about Lisa Bettany's trip around the world with an iPhone 4S had me investigating the usage of iPhone cameras on Flickr, which has been documented before. We've seen the popular rise of iPhone cameras, but what about the total number of images uploaded to Flickr by all iOS devices? The grand total...

One of the founders of tap tap tap's popular Camera+ app (which recently surpassed 6 million downloads) is Lisa Bettany, a local resident of BC's West Coast. Her role in the creation of Camera+ has been previously documented by Entrepreneur, but now she has a new journey ahead of her--a trip around the world armed only...