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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, [...]
Musical guest Lana Del Rey may have managed to upstage Harry Potter himself during Daniel Radcliffe’s eagerly anticipated “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig. And it might not be a good thing. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter drew scorn from celebrities via Twitter for her lack-luster performance on the legendary comedy sketch show. “Wow watching this ‘singer’ on [...]
I used to discover new content via Google. Now I find it using Facebook and Twitter. And millions of others are doing it too. I have to admit it: I get a queasy voyeuristic feeling in my gut when I see what my friends are reading on the Washington or Huffington Posts, watching on YouTube, [...]
Verizon Wireless bowed to a torrent of criticism on Friday and reversed a day-old plan to impose a $2 bill-paying fee that would have applied to only some customers. The consumer vitriol, which cascaded across Twitter and onto blogs and petitions all around the Web, struck a chord with a company that was clearly not [...]
For a slow holiday news week, there’s been plenty of chatter over the last few days about Windows Phone 7. It all started Tuesday when several tech blogs posted editorials on why Microsoft’s operating system was failing, a fact that Mobile Burn’s Dan Seifert wryly pointed out on Twitter. And then, almost as if in [...]
In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online — Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts — are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web’s most popular destinations. No Google searches. No Facebook updates. No Tweets. No Amazon.com shopping. Nothing. The action would be [...]
About a month after his split from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher spent the holidays with writer-director Lorene Scafaria in Italy. And one other person – Kutcher’s business partner, Matt Mazzant. The Two and Half Men star, 33, is making no secret of his time with Scafaria, whom online reports note bears a passing resemblance to [...]
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Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released