Stories by Gary Ng

Two weeks ago we talked about Payfirma, a new Vancouver-based mobile payment company created to work with the iPhone and iPad. Due to our coverage and also the increased competition from fellow rival Kudos payments, Payfirma has stepped up and lowered their rates and fees across the board. This news comes straight from Payfirma's CEO,...

According to Digitimes, Pegatron Technology has received an order for 15 million units of the iPhone 5 from Apple, slated to ship in September: Due to its cooperation with Apple for iPhone 4, Pegatron, in 2010, significantly expanded its plants, human power and equipment aiming satisfy the orders for 10 million CDMA iPhone 4s; however,...

For those on the Google+ bandwagon, you'll be pleased to know the official iPhone app has been submitted to the App Store for approval. Google employee Erica Joy sent out the following update, as reported by Mashable: the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today)...

Justin Luey and I are back to discuss the latest iOS news on Episode 42 of The iPhone Podcast. It's the Canada Day/Independence Day weekend episode! We're currently featured under "What's Hot" in the Gadgets category in iTunes: Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we...

Update 5: The auction has been taken down, as expected. But it looks like more have popped up on eBay, but this time in white. (via CoM) Update 4 (July 4, 12:12AM PST): Looks like the auction has been brought back down to $101,600, after some fake bidders got it to one million. Update 3:...

In late June, we reported Quebec's Videotron launched a $30/month 6GB data plan. Such data plans originally popped up from the 'Big 3' carriers as 'limited promotions' during the times of available iPhone upgrades. For those unaware, the first introduction of the 6GB plan was back in 2008 when consumers dismissed Rogers' initial iPhone data...

The saga continues with Apple and Samsung. The South Korean company filed a trade complaint recently to block iPhone imports based on allegations Apple infringed on their patents. The latest update is Samsung has decided to drop their countersuit, and filed a voluntary dismissal. This action is believed to enable Samsung to concentrate on the...

You might have heard about Nortel's (RIP, our dear old Canadian friend) patent portfolio being sold to the highest bidders, with approximately $4.5 billion spent by a consortium of companies that consisted of RIM, Ericsson, Microsoft, Sony, and Apple. According to Reuters, Google made strange bid amounts of 'pi' and lost. Robert Cringely notes the...

The iPhone 5 is rumoured for a September launch and we've seen iPhone 5 concepts before that were pretty awesome. Here's another concept that's totally different from the previous design. As noted by Gizmodo, it's from the imagination of French designer Antoine Brieux. Brieux's iPhone 5 concept is built upon a single magnesium alloy casing,...

Electronic Arts is back with another massive iOS sale in time for the 4th of July holiday weekend. There are over 50 games at 99 cents each, and most titles are 40-90% off. This is an awesome time to pick up some great games: You can also get almost 50 games on the App Store for just...

If you want to check out some of the hottest bands streamed live from your iPhone, then get your download of the 2011 iTunes Festival London app now. Stream the shows to your Apple TV via AirPlay, and I think we have ourselves a winner here. Description below: 31 nights. 62 bands. 1 official app....

  Happy Canada Day and Bonne Fête du Canada to all! All across the country, celebrators will be donning red and white to celebrate the anniversary of forming Canada - click here if you want more of this history lesson. Those who scored 0/20 and above on the 'How Canadian Are You, Eh?' app quiz...