Siri Proxies are popping up around the web in a frenzy of Nuance-powered technology jealousy derived from the owners of an iPhone 4 or older iPhone.Some argue that Siri Servers are illegal or stupid, but both statements are controversial. Teenager Ahman Woods decided to make his own Siri Proxy and is selling spots now at great [...]
Zynga, gaming giant of the Facebook and now mobile enterprise, has had its ups and downs in the creative realm with violation of competition by scamming of ideas and then hiding behind the law as they dominate the alternative. Zynga’s latest target is NimbleBit, a 3-person team behind many popular iOS games including Sky Burger, [...]
The A5 chip by Apple had left iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users jailbreakless until last Friday when the Chronic Dev Team released Absinthe v2.0, an A5 untethered jailbreak operational at the click of the button. Today, Joshua Hill (@p0sixninja) tipped off Cult of Mac that Greenpois0n Absinthe had exceeded 1 million downloads on January [...]
Research In Motion Co-CEO’s Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsilli step away from their positions tonight as RIM undergoes a major swap in leadership between the Co-CEO’s and former Co-COO Thorsten Heins. With RIM suffering more than ever, Heins looks for alternative routes for income and will work to continue and expand upon the previous developments by RIM. [...]
After Chronic Dev Team’s release of Absinthe, the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (A5 devices) can now be jailbroken to an untethered state at the click of a button. To jailbreak your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 follow the instructions below: Make sure you are on iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 for iPhone 4S and 5.0.1 [...]
At Apple’s education event today Apple launched iTunes U, iBooks 2, and announced a partnership with major textbook manufacturers, but now authors won’t be the only ones with the power of the pen and paper. Apple’s newest addition to the Mac App Store is iBooks Author, a free application that puts the power of e-book [...]
Chronic Dev Team members Pod2G and DHowett are buried in work as they put the iPhone 4S jailbreak through its final stages of development before a public beta or release. They have made amazing progress given the setback of Apple’s A5 chip which solved the jailbreak prone flaws of the A4. A release is expected in the [...]
Corona has offered the untethered function to tethered jailbreaks for a short while now and is being updated rather frequently because it can be used as a simple fix in the future to turn a tethered jailbreak untethered. Cydia’s Jay Freeman (Saurik) announced the update of Corona to version 1.0-5 after it had been updated [...]
CES was an exciting event for companies of all nationalities, but Chinese products seemed to have a spark to them at CES this year and as always the technology is very advanced. Device OEM K-Touch has partnered with Alibaba to make devices running Aliyun Cloud OS, a HTML5 based operating system that relies on the [...]
When Google introduced Ice Cream Sandwich alongside the Galaxy Nexus their main focus was the smartphone with a quick mention of tablet support. Google, however, never mentioned TV support. Today at CES, Chinese electronics giant Lenovo introduced a 55-inch television, slated the K91, that relies on Android 4.0 or ICS as its operating system. Aside [...]
During the long holiday season the Android Market reached 400,000+ applications. This number shows how much growth the Android Market has reached in 2011 and it shows the continual growth that will happen in 2012. 2011 was a very exciting year for Android because all the carriers at one point or another had a Flagship Android phone, and also last year included the launch of the much [...]
Sony Ericsson had initially been a partner for the launch of Windows Phone software and had even shown a working prototype. Since its inception, Sony Ericsson has yet to out a smartphone with any flavor of Windows Phone software. @SonyEricssonNL ever so slightly suggested that a Windows Phone is in its stages of launch preparation. “We’re getting ready [...]
Microsoft, previously critiqued for lack of visual taste, has brought their “A-game” with the Windows Phone interface slated “Metro.” The Metro interface has led Windows Phone to a competing level alongside iOS and Android and will soon be making its desktop debut in Windows 8. Microsoft’s Metro UI even has iOS users wanting a taste [...]
A recent holiday promotion featuring a Windows Phone slated the Nokia “Ace” or 900 left us grasping on to what little information we have about upcoming Windows Phone devices. The holiday promotion, while only displaying half of the device at a time, could have been enough to identify with Microsoft’s mystery device seen in a [...]