Stories by Gary Ng

Facebook iPhone App Now Shows “People You May Know” in Newsfeed

Facebook for iPhone users recently through a couple changes. First, their mobile site was unified, and secondly, the facebook iPhone app started to retrieve its newsfeed from the mobile site (allowing for new like/comment icons). This allows for the app to now receive new features and fixes without releasing an update to the app. The...

App Updates: Google Latitude, Instapaper, Vevo

A few notable app updates were released today. Google Latitude brings better battery life (yet again), Instapaper gets bug fixes, and Vevo as well for older devices. Google Latitude: What's New In Version 2.1.2 * Fixed location reporting bug that also resulted in poor battery performance Instapaper: What's New In Version 3.0.3 - Fixed bugs...

White iPhone 4 Shows Up in Bell Inventory?

The White iPhone 4 is rumoured to launch this Wednesday in the US. We were first to point out the white iPhone 4 placeholder showing up on Fido, but the latest evidence points towards Bell as well. The following image was posted by a forum member on TiPb: Can anyone verify its authenticity? Are you...

Shaw Cable Plans to Implement Usage Based Billing in Late Spring

With the explosion of internet video, services such as Netflix Canada are prospering. The only thing stopping this is the controversy over usage-based billing (UBB). Earlier this year, Bell was caught up in a media firestorm over their plans to implement UBB to resellers such as Teksavvy. The big telecom operators in this country are...

Netflix Canada Surpasses 800,000 Subscribers in 7 Months

Netflix Canada launched last September, and since then the streaming media service has seen some phenomenal growth in Canada. The latest quarterly report sent to investors revealed the following about Netflix's growth in the Great White North: 800,000+ total subscribers now in Canada Last quarter, 290,000 subscribers added in Canada (growth of 57%) By June...

Steve Jobs via Email: “We Don’t Track Anyone”

Here's another 'Steve-mail' to brighten up your Easter Monday. With the whole iPhone location tracking fiasco, we haven't heard a response from Apple--until possibly now? A MacRumors reader has apparently received the following response from Steve Jobs via email (the email hasn't been proven to be authentic or not): Q: Steve, Could you please explain...

Cydia Back Online After 86 Hours of Downtime Due to Amazon

If you've had difficulty downloading tweaks and apps from Cydia, it was because they were affected by the massive failure of Amazon's Cloud Web Service. Saurik (aka Jay Freeman) sent out a tweet today announcing everything should be back up and running after more than three days of downtime. After 86 hours offline, Cydia is...

AppleCore Cord Organizer Solves your Tangled Woes

There's nothing worse than spending time to untangle your headphones. Apple's existing headphones have a more 'springy' rubber compared to older generations, but they still get tangled easily. A new solution to solve this comes from the AppleCore Cord Organizer. Using the shape of an Apple core (genius), this little rubber helper will keep all...

PwnageTool 4.3.2 Download and ultrasn0w 1.2.2 Now Available for iOS 4.3.2

The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.3.2 and ultrasn0w 1.2.2, to support iOS 4.3.2. What is PwnageTool? It will create a custom jailbroken firmware for you to restore from, without updating your baseband (for Mac users; PC users should use sn0wbreeze). Follow our PwnageTool guide here, and ultrasn0w guide here. Update #3: PwnageTool...

iPhone 4 Testing on T-Mobile USA; AWS iPhone For Canada Too?

BGR got their hands on an iPhone 4 currently being test on T-Mobile's 3G AWS network: ...you’re looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM variant is N90. We have verified that...