Stories by Gary Ng

Brock Haymond is the developer behind an awesome new Cydia tweak called Hands-Free Control. The tweak does one thing, and one thing well: it allows you to activate Voice Control using your voice instead of holding down the home button. Once a Jailbreak is available for the iPhone 4S, the tweak will work automatically as Siri uses...

Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting piece that reveals what we've similarly heard before in an anonymous Quora post--Apple leverages its billions in cash to stay ahead of rivals. The intriguing read mentions exclusive deals Apple makes with companies in all steps of its supply chain process to leverage a massive competitive advantage: Apple began innovating...

Update: Sorry for the delay, here are the codes! More to come, stay tuned! FRL9M7TXWA3K N7N7XWN4TXH7 MRX44H9TP3N9 XMYYK4TWW4K9 The iPhoneinCanada.ca forums recently relaunched, and with it comes a new plugin to support the Tapatalk forum app for the iPhone. This app supports a plethora of various forum software, and creates a unique, easy to read...

            In a news release, BCE boasts a 41% increase in third quarter profits as Canada's largest communications company continued to bring in smart phones subscribers.   Total revenues increased to $4.9-billion, beating analysts’ expectations on net income with profit of $642-million, compared to $454-million in the same period a...

Royal LePage has launched a new mobile site compatible with the iPhone and other smartphones. Visitors to royallepage.ca via their iPhones will be greeted with an easy to use mobile site, that can take advantage of your location to determine listings around you. The site will also allow sellers and agents to leave comments on...

Apple has confirmed to multiple sites iOS 5 suffers from battery life issues, and that a fix will be coming in the next few weeks. Just moments ago, Apple released iOS 5.0.1 beta to developers to fix battery issues and more. In a statement to The Loop: “A small number of customers have reported lower...

Apple has just seeded iOS 5.0.1 beta to developers. The improvements and fixes include the following: Fixes bugs affecting battery life Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation Contains security improvements iOS 5.0.1 beta introduces a new way for developers to...

Having recently finished Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs and hungry for more, I turned to the internet. I watched Steve and Bill Gates dual interview at D5; I watched Steve alone at D8; I watch the Stanford address; then Steve reading of the Think Different ad; then some old WWDC presentations. All great stuff,...

During the first week of sales, Walter Isaacson's 656-page biography of Steve Jobs has sold 379,000 copies in the US. The results are detailed in a new report from BookScan US. In just a week, the biography has become the 18th bestselling book of the year. It sits one place ahead of John Grisham's 'The...

If you're tired of hearing about Angry Birds, too bad. Rovio continues to experience high-flying success with their popular game, and they recently confirmed over 500 million downloads have been achieved in less than two years. Rovio's CEO, Mikael He'd had this to say (via Silicon Angle): This is a fantastic landmark achievement for us,...

Update 2: Google messed up on Push Notifications and the Gmail app has been pulled. They just sent this out on twitter: Update 1: Push notifications don't work with this app. Also, if you're searching for it in the App Store, it hasn't propagated to 'first' yet. Just click 'Show More' a few times and...

How much data does Siri use in a month? Well, that depends on how many instances you use Siri per day, according to tests by Arstechnica. They performed a variety of tasks for Siri that required local tasks and those that needed lookups online. In the end, they determined Siri isn't that much of a...