According to someone “in the know,” Apple’s second generation iPad should be jailbroken by @p0sixninja in “about three weeks.” The news comes from @veeence, the guy who successfully predicted the release of an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 4.3.1. According to a Twitter update posted by @veeence yesterday, we should expect support for the iPad 2 to [...]
Over the last few years Apple has purchased two online mapping companies, Placebaseand Poly9. This has led many to speculate that Apple may want to abandoned Google Maps in favor of new mapping technologies developed in-house instead. Tension between Apple and Google has been on the rise ever since Google decided to expand into areas already dominated [...]
Samsung has replied to Apple’s latest court-supported request that the Korean hardware manufacturer turn over its currently available and already-announced products believed to be in violation of Apple’s iPhone and iPad design patents. Interestingly, Samsung is asking for the same treatment out of Cupertino: They want Apple to hand over iPhone 5 and iPad 3 designs by [...]
According to Techcrunch, iOS 5 will include an all-new, completely revamped notification system with widget support to boot. The other big news for iOS5 — and yes, I’ve completely buried the lede here, thanks for reading! — two things: completely revamped notifications and widgets. Apple was planning on giving iOS notifications a major face-lift, and Apple [...]
A recently leaked photo of the supposed iPhone 5 back cover may have actually been taken by an iPhone 5, according to some photoshop gurus at iFans. While this isn’t a completely conclusive photo, we do believe that the camera used to take the photo was a working, prototype iPhone 5. Whether by accident or not, [...]
AT&T has just confirmed that five markets — Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio — will be getting LTE sometime “this summer,” with ten more as-yet-unnamed cities set to join them in the second half of the year. All told, AT&T says should cover about 70 million Americans by year’s end. Of course, an [...]
AirPlay is now available for your Windows Media Center box. It was only a matter of time after the AirPlay encryption keys were cracked that we would start to see AirPlay appearing on other platforms. Now it has been ported to the very popular Windows Media Center. Developer Thomas Pleasance has put together a simple install [...]
337 days following the handset’s initial release in North America, Apple is finally introducing the iPhone 4 in India. As you can see, Indian Apple fans have the ability to purchase an iPhone 4 “practically for free,” and can receive 100 percent of the handset’s price (Rs. 34,500 for the 16GB model and Rs. 40,900 [...]
Another concept of widgets — this time to mirror the dashboard setup in Mac OS X. The implementation is similar to my other widget video. However, in this concept, widgets and apps are separated. Basically, you can consider this layout as having two sides. You have your apps and folders where they have been. But [...]
Microsoft today previewed the next major release of Windows Phone, code-named ‘Mango’. The ‘Mango’ update is said to bring 500 new features to the operating system and will be available this fall. Here are some of the new features: • Threads. Switch between text, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation. • [...]
