Stories by Gary Ng

Remember those ingenious fake Apple Stores in Kunming China? Well, it appears two of them have shut down, according to Reuters. Officials ordered two out of five stores to close due to lack of official business permits, and not because of piracy concerns. However, one of the knock off Apple stores is still up and...

The Facebook iPhone app has suffered from constant bugs and crashes lately, and last night a new update was released to address these issues. Ever since Facebook started using a mobile feed, constant "No Internet Connection" messages would appear for me. After installing this update, the app would not even load. A complete delete and...

The iPhone Dev Team is back at work, again. Just like iOS 5 beta 3, the latest beta 4 build can be jailbroken by redsn0w, as noted by @musclenerd. This is a tethered jailbreak, and should only be used if you require a tethered jailbreak for iOS 5. As described on the iPhone Dev Team...

A little while ago Apple emailed developers informing them that the App Store will be available in 33 additional places: We are pleased to announce the expansion of the App Store to 33 new territories: Algeria Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belize Bermuda Bolivia British Virgin Islands Brunei Cayman Islands...

Update: Here are a few OTA upgrade notes: - The update requires at least 50% battery or connection to a power source. My update was 'frozen' at about 85% when I was at 20% battery life, but once I plugged it into a power source it resumed. - Jailbroken users on iOS 5 won't be...

Update: iOS 5 beta 4 can be installed over the air, as a delta update, at 133 MB. Go to Settings and Software Update. Let us know how it goes, as it'll work over 3G and WiFi. Apple has just released iOS 5 Beta 4 for developers. Stayed tuned for more!

The iPod touch has become a popular item as part of Apple's total 222 million iOS devices sold. As for the next generation iPod touch, images were sent to 9to5Mac that reveal it could come with a white faceplate, to look similar to the iPhone 4. To add further evidence of a possible white iPod...

Mint.com is a popular online service that aggregates all your financial accounts into one convenient place to view. All logins are routed through your bank or credit card institution's official logins, so everything is very secure during setup. The service was finally offered to Canada in December of last year, and now the popular iPhone...

The big news on Wednesday was Apple's official release of OS X Lion to the world. On that same day, the MacBook Air and Mac mini were given a refresh to include newer Intel Core i5/i7 chips and Thunderbolt. What might have been overlooked by some was the inclusion of Bluetooth 4.0, allowing this new...

Currently Apple TV has some of the best integration we've seen with Netflix, but the latest scoop via Bloomberg is Apple is in talks to buy Hulu, the popular TV streaming subscription service available in the US. Imagine if this was available worldwide for all 222 million iOS devices? That would be huge. Canada doesn't...

Looks like Lodsys is back in action again and has started lawsuits against five major game companies. According to FOSSpatents, Lodsys is going after Rovio for Angry Birds for iOS (NOO!!) and Android, EA for Sims 3 (iPhone), Atari and their Greatest Hits Series, Square Enix for Big Hit Baseball, and Take-Two Interactive for NHL...

Apple issued a PR release a couple hours ago to broadcast yesterday's OS X Lion debut resulted in over 1 million downloads on the first day, which, is pretty impressive. Given the fact it was available straight from the Mac App Store probably helped too, eh? CUPERTINO, California—July 21, 2011—Apple® today announced that in just...