Stories by Gary Ng

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...

According to a report from SmartOffice, Samsung is requesting Apple handover their source code for the iPhone 4S's firmware, as well as the details of their subsidy agreements with all mobile carriers in Australian, as they attempts to ban the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia.   Speaking at federal court, Samsung counsel Cynthia Cochrane said they...

According to Net Applications, a leading mobile analytics services, Apple's presence on the Web continues to expand, with Safari on iOS and Mac OS X surging this summer and into the fall. Net Applications has released its latest monthly data on Web traffic, revealing that Apple's iOS, which is riding the strength of the mid-October iPhone 4S launch, surged to 61.6%...

Today Google has officially launched the Google eBooks store in Canada. U.S. readers had access to Google eBooks when it debuted there last December. Titles will be available from publishers such as Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins, House of Anansi, Dundurn and McGill-Queen's University Press. Canadian publishers part of the store include McClelland & Stewart, Douglas...

Apple has released an update for the iOS version of GarageBand to support the iPhone and iPod touch, as noted in a press release. Previously, the GarageBand app debuted on the iPad 2, but now it's a universal app. If you've already purchased the iPad version, this iPhone update is a free download and will...

WhatsApp, one of my favourite cross-platform messaging apps for the iPhone has achieved a significant milestone--over 1 billion messages sent in ONE day. Just how much is 1 billion messages? That is 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a minute, and 11,574 messages a second. That is a significant milestone, and is not hard to...

Could a native Gmail iPhone app be coming soon? MG Siegler writes sources tell him Google has already submitted this app to Apple for review, and it could be coming very soon: Perhaps the biggest issue with using Gmail through the iPhone’s native mail client is that Gmail is not Push-enabled. Yes, you can hack...

The TD Canada Trust iPhone app has been updated to version 2.4.0 to support iOS 5, and also introduce the ability to send and receive email money transfers through the re-branded Interac e-Transfer (a previous update in April introduced Interac Email Money Transfer). The TD app is a fully featured banking app to allow users...

In anticipation of the holiday season, Apple is making a number of enhancements to its online and retail store shopping offerings. Perhaps most notably announcing that customers would be able to make in-store pickups for online orders (currently only available at 20 Apple Store), and adding multiple shipping addresses for a single online transaction. Earlier today MacRumors learned...

iMessage on OS X Lion is back in the news. We had previously reported that iMessage might be integrated into the Mac OS iChat application based on strings of code found in Lion’s iChat. However a report from last night indicates that the decision to integrate iMessage into iChat or create a standalone client not been finalized. Both are reported possibilities that are...