Software

iOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak: Why It’s Tough to Jailbreak A5 Devices – International Business Times

Apple users have been wondering why the hacking community is taking so long to come up with a jailbreak for A5 devices, considering the fact that they came up with a tethered jailbreak for A4 devices within 24 hours from … Continue reading

iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak For A4 Devices Handed Over To Chronic-Dev For Release, Pod2g To Focus On iPhone 4S/iPad 2 – Redmond Pie

The issue comes from the fact that the jailbreak is being developed for a point release of iOS, meaning that the exploit could be closed by Apple come the release of iOS 5.1. Believing that the Chronic Dev Team have … Continue reading

Windows Phone an overlooked worthy alternative to Android, iPhone – Bellingham Herald

Together Android and iOS hog more than 80 percent of the U.S. market share. Android’s large chunk of the market is split among a horde of devices from several makers while Apple has relatively few. Then there is Microsoft. If … Continue reading

GDrive: 5 Ways Google Could Dominate the Cloud Storage Market in 2012 – YAHOO!

Other players like Dropbox, Microsoft’s Docs and iCloud are all contending for the same title. Believe or not, Google has essentially been in this business even longer — the company just never called the service by the same name. The … Continue reading

Year-end stats for smartphones show iPhone is for games, Android is for apps – Venturebeat.com

In 2011, the competition between Google Android devices and Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) became heated. But as new year-end data shows, consumers turned to the iPhone to play games while they enjoyed broader apps on Android. Clearly …

Apple to Enhance iCloud with New Apps for iPhone and iPad – Itproportal

The fledgling iCloud service released by Apple recently, will soon be improved with new apps available for iPad and iPhone. As the keen eye of Apple Insider noticed, Apple is looking to hire iCloud application developers. “The iCloud team is … Continue reading

Poker-meets-Scrabble iPhone and iPad title Poker Pals updated with in-game chat, iCloud support – Pocket Gamer

Back in November, Pocket Gamer awarded Aspyr’s Poker Pals a much-deserved Silver accolade, but lamented the title’s lack of an in-game chat function. Today, the poker-meets-Scrabble title has finally been updated with the ability to chinwag with opponents …

Massachusetts man puts ‘icl0ud.com’ domain up for bid – MacNN

For example, two more common misspellings of “iCloud” might be “iClod” and “iClowd,” both of which redirect to unrelated domains (the former to a site promoting a business simulation game, the latter simply a “for sale” placeholder domain). Apple has … Continue reading

Has Apple gone too far? – AndroidGuys

Apparently, Apple not only claims the right to censor what’s available for download onto your iOS devices, but they also reserve the ability to pull it totally off of your device if it slips past their reviewers in the first … Continue reading

Opinion: 2012, Apple’s iOS Odyssey – Computerworld

What defines Apple [AAPL] in 2012 will be the evolution of the company’s vision of “Post-PC”. Product will include the iPhone 5, iPad 3, and new implementations of iOS, including the Apple television. Resistance to the whole notion of the … Continue reading