Stories by Gary Ng

Steve Jobs has explained last night to Cupertino City Council Apple's plans for a new campus on their recent purchase of HP's old site. The design calls for a 13,000 person capacity in a new revolutionary 'spaceship' design. Steve Jobs was introduced by Mayor Gilbert Wong to a round of applause. He goes on to...

Image via @erator The Apple Design Awards are rewarded to apps that are well designed, innovative, and have technical excellence (here are last year's winners). Here's the criteria from Apple: Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable. Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting...

Justin Luey and I recap and discuss the 2011 WWDC Keynote on Episode 40 of The iPhone Podcast. There's even chatter about iOS 5 beta. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we discuss at our blog. Episode 40 is brought to you by Audible Play In Your...

When I first heard of Georeme, I was quite impressed with the concept. It's quite simple: you can set alerts to go off when you enter or leave a particular area. We were shown this feature in iOS 5, as part of the new Reminders app. Well, the developer of Georeme clearly inspired Apple because...

Warning: the following info is for educational purposes only. Use at your own risk, we are not responsible. It appears a loophole has been discovered by a clever developer to install iOS 5 beta on your iPhone without a developer account. As per Gizmodo: Download and Install iOS 5 1. Download the iOS 5 IPSW...

Yes! That's right folks, Canadians aren't always shut out after all. Zynga, the folks behind the popular hit Words with Friends (my ID: iphoneincanada) have launched a new game: Hanging with Friends. The cool part is the game has launched in Canada FIRST (yes, first) and will soon be rolled out to other countries. The...

Update: This post has been updated daily since its inception, so bookmark it as updates continue to grow. Do you have a tip to share that isn't here? Email us! iOS 5 beta was released by Apple today right after the WWDC keynote. Only some major features were covered from iOS 5 and iCloud. Thanks...

Apple just sent out the following email to MobileMe subscribers: Dear MobileMe member, We'd like to share some exciting news with you about iCloud — Apple’s upcoming cloud service, which stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to your devices. iCloud integrates seamlessly with your apps, so everything happens automatically. Available this fall, iCloud is...

    Wow. If you managed to catch the live blogs of WWDC 2011 today, you were in for a real treat. I caught about 3/4 of the show via a live-stream on UStream (a mash up between audio and video) and the audience was electric. Apple made some massive announcements today, and we're going...

Update: It appears this isn't working in Canada. I don't see anything happening on my iPhone...and this is why... As per Apple's website in the footnotes (thanks Stéphane): "Available in beta now in the U.S. only and requires iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM model), iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation), iPad, or...

Looks like Apple has just pushed out an update to the App Store and updated their terms and conditions. If you go to the Updates tab in the App Store on your iPhone, you'll see a new 'Purchased' tab. From here, you'll be able to download apps 'Not On This iPhone' and see your apps....

The WWDC 2011 Apple Keynote stream is now live. Check it out here. You should be able to watch this on your iPhone and iPad. We'll have a recap post of iOS 5 and iCloud coming shortly. In the meantime, grab and drink and watch this video!