Stories by Gary Ng

The Wall Street Journal went behind the scenes in an in-depth article about Apple's successful retail stores. What makes this story so interesting is earlier today, news hit the web J.C. Penny nabbed Apple's head of retail stores, Ron Johnson to become their new CEO in November. Johnson is the genius (no pun intended) behind...

With the introduction of the iPhone 4 last year, Apple Canada sold phones factory unlocked. This allowed Canada to join other parts of the world such as Italy, Hong Kong and parts of Europe, to have factory unlocked iPhones. As of today, our fellow neighbours down South have joined this exclusive club. An unlocked iPhone...

Google has just introduced some new features to mobile search on iOS. If you visit Google.ca in Mobile Safari, you'll notice some new icons for common categories such as restaurants and coffee shops. Tap these, and you'll be able to quickly find what's around you based on your location. As mentioned on the Google Mobile...

Navigon, makers of one of the best turn-by-turn GPS apps for the iPhone has announced today Garmin has signed an agreement to acquire Navigon. The company will operate as a subsidiary of Garmin. I think this agreement will definitely benefit customers as both parties do GPS navigation pretty well. Schaffhausen, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany /June...

If you've been waiting to purchase a new Mac you might want to hold on for the annual Apple Back to School Promo. Typically this deal includes a free iPod touch for customers that quality under Education pricing. Last year's promotion started on May 25th, so the 2011 deal is definitely late to start. The...

The fine folks over at TechVibes have put together an interesting infographic documenting smarphone usage in Canada: It's interesting to note the Blackberry is most widely-used at 41%, and the iPhone 31%, and Android at 12%. It's easy to see RIM in the lead when they have a tonne of various models, and a lower...

It's always good to have a passcode on your iPhone, because you never know when it could fall into the wrong hands and have your sensitive information revealed. Using a strong passcode will prevent the stress of relying on Find my iPhone should your precious baby get stolen or lost. The maker of the free...

Is Apple leveraging the storage expertise of its competitors for iCloud? According to a report by InfiniteApple, evidence revealed indicates this. Following up to their initial speculation and screenshots of Azure and Amazon being used for iMessage, they ran another test to disprove the trio of 'cloud and networking experts' that proved them wrong via...

Apple has been tight-lipped in their control of leaks, especially leading into and after WWDC. Word broke about Nuance and twitter integration, and some loose details about iCloud, but that was about it. As for the next iPhone, the word on the street according to a source to 9to5Mac is this next-generation device has reached...

If you're a developer using iOS 5 Beta, @MuscleNerd has just tweeted the release of redsn0w 0.9.8b1 for Windows. The Mac version of redsn0w was released two days ago. This jailbreak is tethered. That means if you reboot your iOS device or run out of battery, you'll have to run redsn0w again to re-jailbreak. The...

The game Pig Shot is now free in the App Store to celebrate 1 million downloads. The game is already free, but that has been extended for another week. Here's the app description: Get ready for some EPIC PIG-SLINGING madness! Start launching pigs off slingshot and experience the fastest pig-rolling action you've never tried before!...

Prior to the WWDC 2011 keynote, rumours of Nuance integration in iOS 5 were in full force. However, after the WWDC keynote was all said and done, we saw nothing. That has changed as tonight @chronicwire and @sonnydickson have discovered Nuance dictation details within iOS 5 internal settings. It's noted both hackers also uncovered high...