Stories by Gary Ng

It was announced in April an official Steve Jobs biography would be released in 2012. The biography is to be written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon & Schuster. The latter decided to go with the title "iSteve: The Book of Jobs"--turns out that isn't going to fly anymore. According to Fortune, the publicity...

Based out of Toronto, our fellow friends from Helium Digital have recently re-branded and redesigned their website from the ground up. It now provides more information in a cleaner look and the shopping experience is now thoroughly improved. If you've seen their original website, this new interface is definitely a lot nicer. We've previously reviewed...

Apple's cash war chest, as of their last quarterly earnings report was sitting at $65.8 billion dollars. By the time they announce their Q3 earnings on July 19th, that number will most likely exceed $70 billion. Apple COO Tim Cook is the wizard behind the company's supply chain operations, and with all that cash in...

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,...