Stories by Gary Ng
Intel Hopes To Provide their ‘Medfield’ Processors For iOS Devices
Intel has approached Apple with hopes of sneaking their new Medfield processing chip into future iOS device releases. We’ve previously reported the likelihood of a quad core chip in upcoming iOS devices which makes this possibility curious. The Medfield chip is actually a single core processor. “We don’t frankly see the need for dual core....
Rogers Launches ‘Chinese New Year’ Long Distance Promo and Free ‘Lucky Envelopes’
Rogers is offering a long distance promo for those that celebrate Chinese New Year, (also known as the Lunar New Year). During this time, lots of people call overseas to Asia to wish friends and families a prosperous and lucky new year. To capitalize on this celebrate, Rogers has offered up a long distance promo...
iBooks Fix to Be Released in Corona Update via Cydia Says Pod2g
Are you suffering from the iBooks error in the latest iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak (A4 devices)? If you haven't tried the iBooksFix2 solution, pod2g has just sent out an update and notes the fix will be coming in an update of Corona via Cydia: @xvolks worked to include @comex sandbox patches into the Corona GIT....
New Stunning Mockups of the ‘iPhone SJ’ Emerge Plus Virtual Tour [VIDEO]
Antonio De Rosa from ADR Studios earlier showed us some stunning 'iPhone SJ' concept images, a device dedicated to Steve Jobs. Now, the design studio has released further images of its latest concept, plus a new virtual tour. The new images are described as: "Totally glass capacitative screen on a polycarbonate light-weight body. New design,...
The Next iPhone Could Support AWS According to T-Mobile
According to recent interview conducted by T-Mobile's chief technology offer, Neville Ray, the next generation iPhone could support the AWS spectrum. He originally stated the next iPhone chipset would support AWS, only to retract his statement later to clarify he has no knowledge of the iPhone roadmap, notes CNET: "The next chipset will support AWS,"...
Apple Acquires Part Manufacturer Anobit
California-based Apple Inc. is no stranger to buying other companies and has most recently purchased Israeli company “Anobit” reports Steve Dowling, Apple spokesman yesterday. Anobit makes a controller part contained within iPhones and iPads that helps to optimize device flash memory abilities. Bloomberg is reporting that Apple paid about $390 million to acquire it after...
250 Apple Employees Are Attending The Consumer Electronics Show
Yesterday we learned that Apple does indeed have a presence at CES 2012 and today, we learn that that presence is quite a bit larger than previously thought. A reporter with PaidContent picked Greg Joswiak out of the crowd of at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday and today Reuters is reporting that...
The Classic iPhone Ringtone “Marimba” Interrupts New York Philharmonic [Update]
Update 1: Further information has emerged from this story. The phone that rang was actually an alarm going off--which happens even when the iPhone is in silent mode. More info here at the NYT: “You can imagine how devastating it is to know you had a hand in that,” said the man, who described himself...
Planetbeing: A5 Jailbreak is More Complex than Unlocking iPhone 4S Baseband
Planetbeing has tweeted for the first time in over 500 days, and he proudly proclaims the iPhone 4S jailbreak is out of the 'sandbox' thanks to help from Cydia founder, Saurik: And we're out of the sandbox with @saurik's invaluable help! (well, at least there's a PoC) :D Turning out more complex than X-Gold 618....
Liquipel Will Make your iPhone Waterproof Without a Case
The company Liquipel claims it has the ability to fully waterproof your iPhone--without a case. How? The process works when you send off your device to Liquipel and they spray your device with a nano coating--making it waterproof and allowing it to be fully submerged in water. Liquipel is a revolutionary process that applies a...
Zite Details How Their ‘Personalization Engine’ Works to Curate Stories
Zite started out as a popular app for the iPad that curated news stories based on your social media networks and more. Eventually, it was updated with iPhone support. Created by a team of UBC researchers, the app has exploded in popularity and was recently acquired by CNN. The Zite team has now detailed on...
OpenMedia.ca Launches ‘Stop the Squeeze’ Campaign Against Our ‘Big 3’ Carriers
OpenMedia.ca has launched a new campaign called 'Stop the Squeeze', to argue against the near oligopoly by the major cellphone providers in Canada. The organization previously successfully campaigned against usage-based billing for internet that attracted national attention: OpenMedia.ca is asking Canadians to encourage the government to set aside key wireless spectrum, which, says OpenMedia.ca Executive...