Stories by Gary Ng

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...

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 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...

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....

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,...

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,"...

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...

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...

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 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....