Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 PC operating system will enter its RTM (release to manufacturing) phase in April of 2012, according to reports.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Bad news for the jailbreakers amongst us. Coming out of the Dev-Team tonight, with a post on the groups blog explaining that Apple's iOS 5 betas are providing clues as to how the company intends to combat saving SHSH Blobs moving forward.
When Apple released the first beta of iOS 5, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users clambered to get their hands on it, but the problem is you need to be an iOS developer to install it thanks to the way it checks your UDID (unique device identifier) with Apple's servers.
New releases of iOS usually mean new releases of iOS jailbreaking software and the same goes for new betas, too. With Apple releasing iOS 5 beta 2 to developers on Friday, we heard that Redsn0w could be used to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches for the Mac users amongst us. But what if you're (un)lucky enough to be tied into the Windows world?
After years of iPhone users whining about the complete lack of any kind of multitasking in iOS, Apple finally gave us all what we wanted when iOS 4 launched mid-way through 2010. But while Apple’s implementation works well, it’s not strictly multitasking – apps are held in a ‘frozen state’ and resumed when needed. A host of APIs and a tinge of jailbreaking fills in the missing gaps.
In what is quite possibly the largest infographic we've ever witnessed, Manolution has chronicled the various peaks and troughs of the Apple Vs. Microsoft war that has raged for the best part of 30 years.
It seems everyone and their grandmother has gotten a hold of iOS 5 betas this time around, and with such popularity comes the usual questions: Can it be jailbroken, and can it be unlocked?
Now iOS 5 beta 2 has been in the wild for a couple of hours, reports are starting to flood in of what's changed, what's fixed and worryingly, what's broken.
Apple's just-released iOS 5 beta 2 enables the much vaunted WiFi Sync feature we've all been waiting for, and is available to iOS developers now.
Ever since Skype appeared on the Apple App Store, it immediately turned the iPhone into possibly the most useful VoIP device on the planet. Millions of Skype users could call each other for free, and the addition of Skype-Out meant they could call real phones at reasonable rates.
