Stories by Gary Ng

Apple's previous in-app subscription policy announced in February irked a variety of publishers and caused a massive divide on the issue. The policy stated Apple would take a 30% cut of subscriptions and limit the ability of publishers to collect a user's information. Publishers quickly rejected this policy, and now it appears Apple has relented, according to...

You read about Apple's new ambitious plans to build a new campus in Cupertino that would hold over 12,000 staff. Cupertino's Mayor held a short press conference to answer some grilling questions over their decision to support Apple's new campus. With America still recovering from a recession, Cupertino would be foolish to not accomodate the...

The North by Northeast (NXNE) Festival is taking place on June 13-19 in Toronto, and is Canada's largest music festival. There are over 650 bands, 40 films, and 50 panels to be showcased during the event. If you want an easy way to keep track of everything at NXNE, be sure to download the newly...

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...