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A partnership between Yale and August, both now owned by the same Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy, has resulted in a new line of keypad smart locks being announced.
Logitech has just introduced 'Pop Home Switch', a simple hardware-based product that not only puts smart control at the fingertips of multiple users, but also ensures that everyone in the family has the power to control their smart home without having access to a connected smartphone.
Built as a research project, Microsoft has created a 3D scanning app for iPhone that might be the most powerful solution available on a mobile platform right now. The best part is that it doesn't require any extra hardware to pull this off as all of the processing takes place on the iPhone itself.
We are once again sitting right in the middle of that beautiful time period when updated jailbreaking tools are available, which allow us to free our iOS devices from their technical shackles. For those who have been sitting with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Apple's iOS 5.1.1 firmware, you will no doubt be aware that after weeks of hard work and research, Pod2g and his team have released an untethered jailbreak for all existing iOS devices, excluding the third-generation Apple TV.
It was only a few weeks ago that we brought you the reinvention of the YouTube application for iPhone, as imagined by developer Jonas Gessner. ProTube for iPhone is available for purchase through the Cydia store and brings a number of features and additions which many feel should have been native in Apple’s stock implementation of YouTube.
It was only last week when Apple released iOS 4.4 firmware update for the second generation Apple TV users. And today, roughly after five days of pushing that major release, iOS 4.4.1 build 9A335a has been released which likely brings bug fixes and minor performance improvements to the second-gen Apple TV.
One of the most popular and widely used app on the iPhone has got an update today! This new version 3.4 of the official Facebook for iPhone app brings an overall improved and polished UI for notifications, along with much better reliability and bug fixes. It also adds new Map View for Facebook Places, ability to unfriend, and the ability to check-in to Facebook Events that you might be attending.
An analyst at Rodman & Renshaw claims that the upcoming Apple iPad 2 will feature a dual-core CPU to compete with the likes of RIM PlayBook, and the Android “Honeycomb” based Motorola Tablet.
It looks like Skype is soon going to bring video calling to iPhone and iPod touch. In a help document (pulled now) published on the official Skype site, details were posted about making video calling from Skype for iPhone app to the Skype clients running on other platforms such as Windows and Mac.







