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Looks like the iPhone 4S is getting its “Shawshank Redemption” moment today. A jailbreak for the new iPhone and its A5-based cousin, the iPad 2, has been spotted. The “corona untether” jailbreak for A4 devices running iOS5 was released in December, and since then a “dream team” of iOS hackers including the iPhone Dev Team, [...]
Another day, another rumor about the iPad 3. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that the next-generation iPad will feature a high-definition screen and be compatible with long-term evolution (LTE), a wireless network that gives users access to data more quickly. It will also allow users to move from app to app more quickly, as it will [...]
The shares of Apple (AAPL) have resumed their uptrend, as expected, and I obviously still like the shares at this stage. What’s more, with a P/E of about 15, Apple is not cheap, but it’s not overly expensive, hence now may be your last chance to catch this train before it leaves the station: I [...]
We were promised such great things at CES 2011. We were told the coming year would bring worthy competitors to the mass-market consumer tablet space, an arena conquered — if not pioneered — by the iPad. Poised to challenge Apple’s throne, Motorola and RIM unveiled two serious iPad contenders in the Android-powered Xoom and the [...]
Barnes & Noble Inc. said it exploring a plan to separate its successful but costly Nook electronic-book business as it warned investors that full-year results would show much more red ink than previously forecast. Shares sank nearly 24% in Thursday morning trading. “We see substantial value in what we’ve built with our Nook business in [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show–a trade event that promises to showcase the latest and best gadgets that many prominent tech purveyors have to offer–kicks off next week. What can you expect? Joshua Topolsky writes: For starters, the two worlds of tablets and super-thin laptops (ultrabooks, as we’ve taken to calling them in the industry) are getting [...]
Those who believe Google Android products are cheap knockoffs of Apple’s iPhone and iPad were given more ammo this week when it emerged that Samsung hired the same child actress as Apple to star in the ads for its new tablet. Separately, Google was forced to pull a voice control app called “Siri” from the [...]
Jonathan Ive, the designer of some of Apple’s most successful products, including the iPod and the iPhone, has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours. Ive, who is Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, receives a KBE from the Queen “for services to design and enterprise”. “I am keenly aware that I benefit [...]
Rumours that Apple will launch two new iPads at a trade show next month have been dismissed by company ‘insiders’. Asian news service Digitimes, a source of plenty of rumours about Apple these days, had claimed that two new iPads were scheduled for launch at the Macworld Expo conference in San Francisco on January 23. [...]
Product rumors for the tech industry are an industry all of their own, and products coming out of Infinite Loop in Cupertino are always generating buzz. When Apple released the iPhone 4S and not a completely new iPhone 5 in October, gadget lovers from all over the world were loudly disappointed as it, externally at [...]
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Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released