Stories by Gary Ng

A 25-year old employee at Foxconn supposedly committed suicide last week. For those of you who don't know, Foxconn is the manufacturer responsible for developing Apple iPhone concepts or next gen prototypes and this particular employee was the guy responsible for keeping 16 iPhone prototypes in a safe place, away from prying eyes. Supposedly, when...

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that revealed some interesting numbers involving Apple's profit margins with the iPhone. Even with only a 1% unit market share of worldwide cellphones, Apple takes in 20% of the entire industry's profit. Today Apple will be releasing its Q3 earning and all eyes will...

Yesterday Rory posted an article about an application to allow file transfer between your iPhone and Mac/PC via USB called DiskAid. For those of you using Windows machines, there is another software called Xilisoft iPhone, which several of my associates use regularly and swear by it. The interesting thing about Xilisoft iPhone is that aside...

Universal Studios is gearing up to release the special edition Blu-Ray version of Fast & Furious at the end of the month and they've decided to make the bonus content iPhone friendly. They will be releasing an app via the App Store which will allow customers who have the Blu-Ray disc to view cars from...

There are certain apps on the iPhone that require a WiFi connection to work. Such apps include Skype, SlingPlayer, AOL Radio, YouTube (for high quality videos), and the App Store/iTunes (for downloads over 10MB). How does one get around this limitation? Easy. You'll have to jailbreak your iPhone and get access to 3rd party apps,...

It looks like Apple's retail expansion continues to grow. I remember being at the Vancouver Apple Store grand opening and giving up on getting a free tshirt since the lines were ridiculous. Today it is Ottawa's turn to repeat all the Apple hoopla we experienced all over again! Yahooooo! An Apple Store Finally Reaches The...

For those who travel or live overseas with their iPhones, having an unlocked iPhone is extremely valuable. You can freely pop in any SIM card from any worldwide GSM carrier and avoid roaming charges with Rogers. Currently, our iPhones in Canada are locked to either Rogers or Fido. If you're not smart about it, your...

Apple yesterday released some official numbers on the status of the App Store, and they are as predicted, "mind-blasting" (NSFW--language) in the word of Russell Peters. The App Store has continued to play a major role in the selling of iPhone hardware. The status of the App Store after celebrating its one year anniversary: -...

Do you own an iPhone 3GS? Been curious about all this "jailbreaking" hoopla you've been hearing about lately? Well, you're in luck because about a week ago the iPhone Dev Team (and other young hackers) released an updated version of redsn0w. We have lots of updated jailbreaking guides here. Anyways, here's a quick video I...

One year ago today, Apple introduced the App Store to the world. The App Store started out with 500 applications for people to download. Today, it is now at a staggering 50,000 apps and counting, with over 1,000,000,000 downloads. It's pretty incredible when you think about it. The scary thing is it doesn't seem like...

Ever since I laid my hands on the original first gen iPhone, I had to use various tools to activate/jailbreak/unlock my phone. It definitely requires some skills to reverse engineer and figure out ways to bypass Apple's lockdown on the iPhone. However this isn't that difficult if you're part of an elite team of "iPhone...

Are you using iPhone OS 3.0? If you are, then you must be loving push notifications! Instant messaging definitely benefits from this as you read from my IM+ review. Anyways, IM+ was nice enough to donate five promo codes to iPhoneinCanada.ca readers! Congrats to the following winners: Billy Darryn Szoze Adobe Kevin For the people...