Stories by Gary Ng

Apple gets the most attention at conferences they don't attend. Think about that for a minute. Apple's final conference was the 2009 Macworld Expo, where typically new products and announcements would be made. The Mobile World Congress is an annual gathering of the most influential companies in the mobile industry. Apple didn't bother attending, but...

Have you encountered that message above? There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks. Are you looking for a fix for iBooks after jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 via Greenpois0n? A solution is now available in Cydia that will solve the problem of iBooks refusing to open content...

Google recently introduced a new security feature to help protect your account even further: 2-step verification. We live in a Google world nowadays and a compromised Google Account is the last thing we need. Google's 2-step verification can increase security, but it requires work to setup and maintain. Once enabled, users logging into their Google...

Keeping it all in sync with MobileMe More MobileMe speculation from "sources" coming your way. I'm going to take this 'source' from Cult of Mac with a grain of salt, especially after hearing about Apple's "cloud-only" iPhone rumour. New details report that MobileMe's plans include a mashup of Foursquare, uStream, and Facebook. As per Cult...

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...