Stories by Gary Ng

Google is always hard at work optimizing their services for mobile devices, especially the iPhone. This now includes Google's Android platform along with their own Nexus One smartphone. The latest update is to Google Image Search. Taking a page out of the iPhone playbook, there are new features which make searching for images a whole...

Can this lost/stolen next iPhone prototype story get any juicier? I wonder if Jason Chen from Gizmodo ever imagined his revealing posts would result in his home being raided. The Apple Engineer that lost the iPhone was identified to the world by Gizmodo. Revealed: The Guy Who Sold the iPhone to Gizmodo Wired has interviewed...

Many people have longed for Flash on the iPhone. Apple's position on this matter is that Flash is a resource-heavy third party plugin that is not an "open" web standard. Without Flash on the iPhone, users cannot view certain web pages, videos, and play Flash games. Apple has advocated HTML5 publicly as an alternative to...

Neowin.net has posted a first look at screenshots of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Live Messenger for the iPhone. The iPhone OS was introduced in mid 2007. It has been almost three years and Windows Live users haven't had a taste of an official app for the iPhone. Well that has now changed. According to Neowin.net: Today...

Yesterday Gizmodo broke news about how police seized computers from editor Jason Chen's home. This was in part due to Gizmodo's reviews of a "lost" iPhone prototype. Scott Adams, the creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip had his chance to create a comic on the whole event. Here's what he had to say on...

It's the best time of the year--NHL playoff hockey is here! I hope your playoff beard is off to a good start. There are two Canadian teams left in the race for the Stanley Cup (enjoy the golf season, Ottawa): Vancouver and Montreal. If you're a Canucks fan, you most likely saw that epic 3rd...

This whole "leaked" iPhone 4G prototype saga is taking an ugly turn. Gizmodo reports that police, armed with a warrant, seized Jason Chen's computers while he was out with his wife. He arrived home to find police searching through his house and his front door kicked down. Many people were wary of Gizmodo posting a...

Are more secrets leaving Apple's campus? It turns out that earlier this morning an auction appeared on eBay selling two prototype iPod Touch units with cameras. According to 9to5Mac: Well looky what we have here. Someone has put up two semi-working iPod touches WITH cameras and a development version of the iPod OS on Ebay....

We all love our iPhones. For some of us, that dreaded day comes when something on it breaks. Some have the misfortune of a cracked screen, their battery no longer holding a charge, or in my case recently, the external speaker blowing!  One day my iPhone 3G was working fine, and the next day all...

If you're an avid twitter user, you probably are very picky when it comes down to deciding on which iPhone twitter client you want to use. I've tried different clients such as: twinkle, tweetie, twitterfon, tweetstack, tweetdeck, and qTweeter. I've been using SimplyTweet still as my iPhone twitter client because it meets my needs. I...

The so called "lost" iPhone saga continues. Gizmodo continues to report everything they can about the next iPhone. In case you've been out of the loop, here's how it all started: Engadget mentions an iPhone being found on a bar floor; later they update their post with pictures Monday morning: Gizmodo unleashes a nuclear bomb...

Apple had a goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. That was a conservative number back then and given the exploding popularity of the iPhone, it's easy to see that people can't stop buying iPhones. With today's Q2 earnings announcement, Apple shared their financial results with shareholders. 8.75 Million iPhones Sold in Q2 Alone...