Stories by Gary Ng

Last Fall, Rogers announced LTE trials in Ottawa. Today, as part of their quarterly earnings call (which had profits drop), Rogers CEO Nadir Mohammed confirmed this to investors: "We’re committed to LTE. We’re committed to deploying it and it’s going to be a multi-year deployment." What is LTE? As defined by the Rogers Redboard: LTE...

Recent rumours from Digitimes indicated that the next iPhone will sport a 4" display and house a next-generation A5 chip. Other rumours from the WSJ hint at an iPhone 'Nano' with and 'edge to edge' screen. We won't know if any of these come to life until they happen. But in regards to the 4" display, TUAW...

From the Globe and Mail: Rogers Communications Inc. saw profit drop by 3 per cent in the last quarter, falling short of analysts' expectations as Canada's largest wireless provider continues to suffer from a wave of new competition. As new companies such as Mobilicity and Wind Mobile continue to push in, and old rivals BCE...

Google has just announced on their blog a new publishing initiative, called Google One Pass. CEO Eric Schmidt introduced this today at Humboldt University in Berlin. With the backlash over Apple's new subscription policy, publishers looking to head elsewhere (if they actually jump ship from iOS is another story) can do so with Google One...

Congrats to the following winners! You will be contacted via email shortly! @MikeJenkinson mapsgirl Julia Bobzanlu Nimarsha The iPhoneinCanada.ca 3 Year Anniversary Continues! Your patience is going to pay off, because today's giveaway is the one you've been waiting for: 5x ZAGGsparq 2.0 units from ZAGG (read our review here) The ZAGGsparq 2.0 is a...

With the announcement of Apple's new subscriptions model, there have been mixed emotions popping up left, right and center around the web. Publishers are crying fowl Apple is taking a 30% cut of subscriptions, and some have even brought up anti-trust issues against this new policy (?!). What exactly is Apple introducing here with their...

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4.2.1, and you don't require an unlock, use Greenpois0n. However, if you want to remain at an unlockable baseband, you'll want to use PwnageTool 4.2 (Mac) or sn0wbreeze 2.2 (Windows). Here's a brief tutorial on how to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4.2.1 with PwnageTool. It's straightforward...

Hot on the heels of the release of the jailbreak tool PwnageTool 4.2, which allows for custom firmware restores for Mac users, sn0wbreeze 2.2r2 has been released for PC users. sn0wbreeze essentially is PwnageTool for Windows users. It also includes the latest iBook and AT2 wifi fixes. sn0wbreeze 2.2 uses the same untethered jailbreak from...

The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.2, which will allow for iPhone unlockers to restore with a custom firmware to retain their existing baseband and unlock. They used the "feedface" untether from Greenpois0n, with permission from the Chronic Dev Team. So if you own an iPhone 4, and want to retain your baseband...

Apple topped Barron's ranking of the most respected companies, and that's due to its stock performance: Riding its soaring financial results, the company's stock zoomed 53% last year and is up nearly 11% this year, to $356.85 as of Friday. Its stock market capitalization of $328 billion is second only to Exxon Mobil's $412 billion....

We've covered the issue of Internet usage in Canada, along with the whole usage-based billing (UBB) debate in the following articles: Get Involved and Protest Against UBB: StoptheMeter.ca Teksavvy President Busts UBB Myths Bandwidth Costs: Canada versus the World Internet Speeds: Canada versus the World Ottawa Reverses CRTC Ruling on UBB Compared to the rest...

Boxcar, my favourite app for managing iOS notifications, can also be managed on the web. If you haven't used their online service yet, it's an excellent service for keeping track of your notifications without grabbing your iPhone. The online service is simple. You just sign in, and everything appears in your browser just like it...