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Yesterday the New York Times published false claims about Apple and the way it’s dealing with working conditions at its manufacturing partner Foxconn. Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to…
Sireet is a new tweak available in Cydia that allows you to Tweet using Siri. As you can see in the video, Sireet doesn’t let you review your Tweet before sending, which is something I feel…
An awesome new jailbreak tweak called Lingual turns Siri on your iPhone 4S into a multi-language voice translator. Lingual will quickly translate English sentences into over 30 different…
We recently reported that the iPhone represented 55% of Verizon’s fourth quarter 2011 smartphone sales, and now AT&T’s fourth quarter earnings highlight that over 80% of smartphone…
We’ve seen some other Siri jailbreak tweaks, but AssistantExtensions is probably the coolest so far. AssistantExtensions lets you launch apps, send tweets, enable/disable Settings toggles…
Valve released a free Steam app for iPhone today. Steam Mobile lets you chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to…
Apple released a firmware update today to bring Lion Internet Recovery to mid-2010 MacBooks and Mac minis through Software Update. Lion Internet Recovery is needed when installing a new…
Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Live gaming to iPhone and iPad, probably because no one is buying Windows Phones. A Microsoft spokesman stated: While the Xbox Live experiences and games…
If anyone needed more proof that the iPhone was doing well, Verizon announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 today, revealing that the company had activated 4.3 million iPhones…
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The company reported all-time record iPhone, iPad and Mac…
Apple is expected to support the new 802.11ac WiFi specification this year, according to AppleInsider. This new standard can reach speeds above 1GB, about 3 times as fast as 802.11n…
The newly released Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was downloaded over 1 million times in the first 24 hours of release. This was before the Windows version was released the…
This guide will help you jailbreak A5 devices like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe, a tool created by the Chronic Dev Team with the help of pod2g and others. If…
UPDATE: Check out our A5 jailbreak guide for step-by-step instructions. Windows users can now jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 with the Chonic Dev Team’s recently released Windows version…
UPDATE: The A5 untethered jailbreak has been released! pod2g updated his blog just minutes ago with some great news on the A5 untethered jailbreak. He says the wait is about to end and that…
UPDATE: Check out our A5 jailbreak guide for step-by-step instructions. The Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe is now available for download. This tool includes the untethered jailbreak for A5…
UPDATE: The A5 untethered jailbreak has been released! With the release of an untethered A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 coming any day now, make sure you update your device to iOS…
Apple reinvented the textbook today with interactive textbooks for iPad. Watch the video above to find out more about this entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current and…
SoulCalibur, Namco’s popular weapons-based arcade fighting game, is now available in the App Store. The game features 19 characters, incredible Retina graphics and all the awesome fighting…
Apple has posted video of today’s media event which focused on education. They introduced iBooks 2 with interactive textbooks for iPad. They also extended the functionality of iTunes U. You…
Apple released a new iOS app today called iTunes U, which gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools. iTunes U is a universal app for iPhone, iPod…
AT&T announced new data plans for iPhones and iPads today, technically they are for all smartphones and tablets, but I have a hard time believing anyone would buy something besides an…
pod2g updated his blog with the above picture and the title “iPad 2 5.0.1 untethered.” With the video of an unethered jailbreak on an iPhone 4S the other day and now this picture of an iPad…
The iPhone Dev Team updated their iOS jailbreak tool to v0.9.10b4 to incorporate the iOS 5.0.1 fix for iBooks. We’ve updated the links on our iOS 5 Jailbreak Tutorial page and also posted…
