Stories by Gary Ng

Apple is continuing to roll out ways that streamline the shopping process, including a new retail self-checkout app and the ability to pick up online purchases in select stores. Late last week, The New York Times took a look at Apple's internal retail software that responds to customer requests for assistance and further streamlines the...

TED has officially announced the launch of their app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Originally, the app was only available for the iPad (launched last October). TED for iPhone was available in the App Store two weeks ago, but now it's ready for primetime: The entire library is available for browsing and searching in both...

Today RIM announced the upcoming debut of a device management software that will protect iPhone (and Android) users. Set to launch in March of 2012, Mobile Fusion will function alongside Blackberry Enterprise Servers (BES) behind corporate firewalls, according to Reuters: "What our enterprise customers are looking for, and the opportunity for us, is to become...

Details of the next generation Apple TV have been uncovered in the latest code strings within today's newly released iOS 5.1 beta. 9to5Mac notes the codename J33 represents the next Apple TV: As you can see above, the new Apple TV is rocking a the J33 codename, the second JXX product we’ve seen from Apple....

Bloomberg reports that the original founding documents establishing the Apple Computer Company, signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, is set to appear at auction on December 13th at Sotheby's in New York. The original four-page founding contract and the legalese of their partnership was drafted by Wayne on a typewriter in 1976. In Steve Jobs,...

If you don't have an iPhone 4S, well, you don't have an iPhone 4S. And if you don't have an iPhone 4S, you don't have Siri (logic from Apple's TV commercials, duh). Well you don't need an iPhone 4S to make your own Siri conversations because iFakeSiri.com is here to do it for you. Just...

Apple offered free shipping today only on all products purchased from Apple.ca as part of Cyber Monday. They weren't finished with giving though as now iOS 5.1 beta is now available to developers. Build number 9B5117b comes in at an 800MB download for the iPhone 4S. Apple previously noted they are still working on crushing...

BGR points to a press release from Australian airline Regional Express describing an incident where an iPhone self combusted onboard an aircraft just after landing. Regional Express (Rex) flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney today had an occurrence after landing, when a passenger’s mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied...

Bing has released its search data trends for 2011, and among the results come specific terms that dominated Canada. The most popular search term for consumer electronics in Canada was--the mythical 'iPhone 5' which turned out to become the iPhone 4S. Top Consumer Electronics In the U.S., the 'iPhone 5' ranked in the fourth spot,...

The 2011 Canadian Blog Awards have started their voting round (actually 2 weeks ago) and we at iPhoneinCanada.ca are humbled to have been nominated into the "Best Sci/Tech Blog" category. If you enjoy reading iPhoneinCanada.ca and love what we do here, we'd appreciate your support by voting below. Help us make it into the final...

If you need to buy some gifts for Christmas from Apple.ca, do it online today as free shipping is on everything. Normally, free shipping is only for orders of $75 or more via standard shipping (meaning your order will arrive within 8 business days). Whether you order via the web, or the Apple Store app,...

First ZAGG announced their two-day 50% off Cyber Monday sale, and now BodyGuardz has their own massive 50% off sale. The Blackout Sale takes place now is actually site-wide. Yes, that's right--50% off everything on the site without any restrictions. Just order and checkout, that's it! Man, this is turning out to be a good...