The last couple of weeks have been of sweeping change for HP, especially its webOS division, as the company announced it would kill of every single webOS hardware product until the end of the year. Soon after, HP's webOS tablet, the TouchPad, began selling for $99, instead of the usual $399, in order to liquidate all remaining stock, yet the response from customers was so overwhelming that HP will actually begin making a last batch of TouchPads.
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Ever since Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO, many have learned a fair amount about his past, including the fact that he was given up by his biological parents at birth. Thanks to the power of investigative journalism, however, Jobs' biological father was tracked down and interviewed.
For almost as long as we've used mobile phones, we've been able to send and receive text messages, and later audio and video, through the cell network. Yet, as data packages become increasingly more common for mobile devices, sending those messages over the Internet sounds more conceivable than ever before. Samsung is the new player in this space with its ChatON messaging service.
Comex Answers Your Questions About His Future Involvement In Jailbreak Community After Joining Apple
Just a few days ago, the jailbreaking community was taken by surprise when one of its most prominent figure, Comex, joined Apple as an intern. Many have wondered whether he'll continue developing jailbreaking tools in the future and whether his current ones would be kept.
The native Maps app that comes built into iOS is fairly powerful on its own, but over the last few weeks jailbreak developers have created plug-ins to enhance it: namely Speed for Maps and Compass For Maps, which added an on-screen speedometer and a compass to said app, respectively.
If you're a regular reader of this site, or have been following iPhone news for the last few months, it shouldn't be a surprise to you that Apple is getting ready to release a new iPhone. We also learned last week that Sprint might actually start carrying the iPhone for the first time ever beginning in October, but if you ask a Sprint store clerk that question, you might get a very different answer.
SkyDrive, which is part of Microsoft's Windows Live suite, is a service that allows users to store files online and share them with themselves or others. This can only be done officially through a web interface, yet there's speculation that Microsoft might soon release a SkyDrive client for desktop and mobile platforms.
If you're a regular reader of this site, then you're probably aware of iOS 5, the next major release of the operating system that runs on iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. While the system's main features have been outlined by Apple two months ago, and the brilliant piece of software is believed to be very close to a public release, some still expect new features to be introduced at the last minute, perhaps exclusive to the long-awaited iPhone 5.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few days, you must have heard that Steve Jobs abruptly stepped down from his job at Apple earlier this week citing health reasons. Instead of dwindling into more speculation and unneeded (and sometimes downright disgusting) gossip, let's instead look back at some of Jobs' greatest accomplishments with the help of an infographic.
OS X Lion, which was finally released to the public last month, includes many improvements, such as support for full-screen apps and reliability additions such as AutoSave. Yet, if you're finding it hard to cope with such a radical change or some apps that are essential to you aren't yet compatible with the new system, it might be a good idea to move back to Snow Leopard. If you're wondering how, this guide is for you.
