Stories by Gary Ng

WhatsApp is one the most popular cross-platform messaging clients, and still a very popular option for many iOS users. The app has frequently been featured as one of the top apps in the App Store and last November surpassed 1 billion messages sent in a single day. Currently, WhatsApp is not in the App Store...

The iPhone Dev Team has just released redsn0w 0.9.10b4 (as noted by @MuscleNerd), an update to include the latest iBooks fix for the A4 untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1. Earlier, pod2g notified us of an updated version of Corona via Cydia that includes the newest fix, thanks to @xvolks. Here's what The iPhone Dev Team had...

The original release of Corona 1.0-1 Running into the iBooks error with your untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak on your A4 device? Try the iBooksFix2 patch solution; if that hasn't worked, then you'll be happy to know a real fix has been released via an update to Corona in Cydia. Version 1.0.4 of Corona was released earlier...

Pod2g has updated his blog with a link to a video of a jailbroken iPhone 4S on iOS 5.0.1, as shown by Chronic Dev Team member @DHowett. Within the video below, we clearly see its an iPhone 4S based on the four antenna bands and evidence of Siri. We see Cydia on the home screen...

Despite being absent from this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Apple was hardly out of the limelight as electronics companies lined up to prove that their products were a serious threat to whatever Apple might have in the pipeline. This year, huge-screened interactive televisions were front and centre and Apple's rumoured iTV loomed over electronics maker...

Apple has added a new way of viewing items available for download through iTunes, Reports Italian language Apple blog Ispazio Genius. The latest option is a slick looking pop-up that allows you to view all of the details of an App or Album you might like to purchase, on top of the search screen that...

Apple Insider is reporting today that an analyst for Morgan Stanley informed investors of some tidbits she has garnered on a recent trip to Asia. She claims that the third-generation iPad (with a higher resolution display) is due before the end of the second quarter and that a new iPhone will follow later this year....

Grooveshark announced this morning it has launched a new HTML5 music player that works on all iOS devices right within Mobile Safari. The controversial music service plagued with lawsuits from the music industry allows users to search for any artist and stream songs for free. It was kicked out of the App Store and is...

Sony will be bringing its “Music Unlimited” service to iOS devices at some point this quarter, assuming they don't get another rejection. The announcement came from head of the Sony Entertainment Network, Tim Schaaff, at a media event yesterday at CES. Android devices and PCs have already been a home to the service for some...

Tap tap tap has just released some stunning numbers for their popular photography app (and one of my favourites) Camera+. The app has reached its 6 millionth sale milestone, with over 950,000 downloads in the past month alone. Last June, they hit 3 million total downloads. After Apple's 30% cut, the taptaptap team notes they...

Former Apple CEO John Sculley spoke with the BBC at CES and gave his thoughts about the Steve Jobs biography. Jobs recruited Sculley from Pepsi back in the 80s with the famous challenge, "do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the...

Apple has posted its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report for 2012 on its website that details the steps it takes in dealing with suppliers and how workers are treated. All companies must adhere to Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct if they want to do business with them, and part of that includes both scheduled and surprise...