Stories by Gary Ng

Steve Jobs could be the first deceased CEO to win the honour of Time Magazine's Person of the Year, as noted by Fortune. Earlier this morning, three of the six people in a panel discussion supported the nomination of Steve Jobs, as first put forward by NBC's Brian Williams. He was supported by Grover Norquist...

In a blog post from iFixit it's noted that the iPhone 4S features a tweaked proximity sensor, basically an infrared LED capable of detecting how close the user's face is to the screen. iPhones have always incorporated proximity sensors that prevent accidental input by turning the device display off during phone calls (when the phone is raised to the users...

Fortune notes that in Greenpeace's latest Guide to Green Electronics Apple ranked forth among its consumer electronics peers by environmental criteria. HP, Dell, and Nokia lead the way respectfully. What's significant is that Apple has moved up five spots in last years report. The Greenpeace report reviews three categories: energy, greener products, and sustainable operations. It praises Apple for...

The Canadian War Museum has launched a new iPhone app to bring a new experience for visitors. It includes an interactive floor guide, plus visitors can use the app to scan QR codes at various points of interest. If you're visiting the museum to remember, this is a must-have app. This application is designed to...

Adobe has announced they will shut down Flash support for mobile devices and concentrate on Adobe AIR and HTML5: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash...

Earlier today the Apple Store app was updated to include support for Canada, and to also debut the new self-checkout feature called EasyPay (U.S. only at the moment). Curious to know how this self-managed system works for accessory purchases? The Mac Observer went hands on today with the feature to purchase a $200 accessory. Users...

With all the breakthroughs lately in ports of Siri over to the iPhone 4, iPod touch, and iPhone 3GS, some have wondered whether the voice feature will make it onto older devices. Apple has confirmed Siri will not be supported on older devices, in response to a developer's bug report submitted to Apple. The developer...

Google’s Eric Schmidt is in Korea this week meeting with senior government and business officials, including South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. During a press conference this morning he was asked, among other things, on his thoughts of Steve Jobs’ claims that Android is a “stolen product”. While first calling Jobs a “fantastic human being” and saying he is...

Boeing and MIT have developed technology to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from anywhere, as demonstrated this summer at Boeing's Seattle research centre. The team was able to control a UAV over an athletic field 2500 miles away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of MIT: Boeing engineer George Windsor sat in a small room at a...

HeyTell is a fun app that turns your iPhone into a walkie talkie, essentially bringing Push-to-Talk to your device. It has just been updated to support iOS 5 and Bluetooth. What's New In Version 2.3.1 * New languages: Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Russian, Swedish. Many, many thanks go out to both Jonas Bohdén for providing the...

As Apple moved to online reservations-only for the iPhone 4S, people have started to capitalize on the demand by selling their spots on Craigslist and more. A quick search reveals a plethora of ads ranging in price from $25 to $75. Interested buyers meet the individuals at Apple Stores and during the purchase the buyer...

When the iPhone 4 launched last year, Consumer Reports could not recommend the device as 'antennagate' had taken the world by storm. This time around with the iPhone 4S, their researchers found no reception problems and have recommended the device. In special reception tests of the iPhone 4S that duplicated those we did on the...