Stories by Gary Ng

Rockstar Games has just announced some good news for Grand Theft Auto fans. Next week, GTA III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition hits the App Store on December 15th for $4.99 (and for Android too). The app will support the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 1, iPad 2, and iPod touch 4th gen. For fans of...

BundleHunt.com is back, and this time around they have launched their much-anticipated 'Mega Holiday Bundle'. Users will get 12 Mac apps and tools, a total value of $1100, but on sale for 95% off at just $49.99. They're also giving away two 16GB iPad 2s to people who purchase the bundle, plus every person who...

The BBC Worldwide has officially announced the launch date of iPhone and iPod touch versions of their Global iPlayer, set to debut December 8th in Canada, as part of its pilot trial. The iPad-exclusive app launched in Canada five days ago, with a $8.99 CDN monthly subscription price (or $84.99 annually), which we have reviewed....

Image via i-kreate Near the end of the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson explains what Jobs details to him about his vision for a television set: "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," he told me. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and...

ShopCatch is a new app with one purpose--to bring you in-store deals from shopping malls across Canada. The app takes advantage of your location to offer deals via Push Notifications, plus includes maps and store directories too. The app allows for social media sharing of deals, plus the ability to submit your own tips. The...

Electronic Arts (EA) has a 100 games listed in the iTunes Store that range from console to iOS ports (FIFA, NBA JAM) as well as exclusive iOS content (Max & the Magic Marker, Fantasy Safari). Today EA has created a Daily Deals page that highlights many of their most popular games by offering deep discounts. Updated daily, the site will feature...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in Bangalore last week to give a talk to up-and-coming entrepreneurs about Apple. While there, he gave a great interview to Indian television program Sunday MIDDAY. As always, everyone’s favorite geek had interesting thoughts to share, particularly on the state of todays mobile industry. Woz likened today’s competing smartphones (read as Android, Blackberry,...

People will do anything to get Siri onto non-iPhone 4S devices, and we saw that with the tweak Siri0us (which was ultimately removed). This time around, H1Siri has emerged by a group of hackers in China called the CD-Dev Team. This hack brings full-fledged Siri to your iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4th generation on iOS...

It appears iOS 5.0.1 has some WiFi issues for some people. I have received a few emails about this and I've experienced it lately on my own iPhone 4S. All signs point to being connected to WiFi, but no data is being transferred. At first I thought I was going crazy. A reset of network...

Developer Steve Stroughton-Smith has revealed Apple's code names for iOS firmware all the way back from iPhone OS 1.0. The code names are from the book iOS Forensic Analysis: 1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly) 1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest) 2.0: Big Bear 2.1: Sugarbowl 2.2: Timberline 3.0: Kirkwood 3.1: Northstar 3.2: Wildcat...

Last week, the Chronic Dev Team released a tool for iOS users to re-route their crash reports so they would be sent to them, instead of Apple. This plan was to accumulate information towards a new untethered jailbreak exploit, as existing loopholes had been closed by Apple. Joshua Hill just sent out a tweet that...

Stephen Colbert has found yet another reason to love Siri. With the recent kerfuffle over Siri’s inability to locate abortion clinics in New York City, and directing similar request in Washington, D.C. to anti-abortion centers, Colbert is using the opportunity to have some fun with Siri. (Note: Apple quickly responded to the New York Times, attributing the poor search results...