We're fast approaching that time of year again. The time of year when tech journalists and anyone else mad enough descends upon the Sin City in order to get their hands on the latest and greatest gadgets the world of tech has to offer.
The release of the Apple iPad in April 2010 brought about a major change in the way consumers went about their computing business. We started off with personal computers, laptops and netbooks. We even had personal digital assistants which came with a big ugly stylus and made us look like a bit of a snob when using them in public. All of these came with distinct advantages, but none of them quite fulfilled the need of people who wanted to do a bit of everything on the go.
The iOS community got a belated present two days after Christmas with the release of the untethered jailbreak for all A4 devices running iOS 5.0.1. The release of the jailbreak represented nearly two months of hard work and research by pod2g followed by efficient and swift work from the iPhone Dev and Chronic Dev Teams to package the jailbreak up for public consumption.
Christmas is always going to be a big time for companies like Apple and Google. With gifts being given the world over, there's a high probability that a good chunk of them run either Apple's iOS or Google's Android. Both have their own application stores.
Apple will be holding a special one-day shopping event in celebration of the Lunar new year in select countries, Redmond Pie has learned. Details after the jump!
If sources close to the company are to be believed, then New York will soon be the welcoming the fruit company in with open arms, playing host to what is reported to be a small scale media event. Moving away from their usual home in Cupertino and San Francisco, sources close to the alleged event claim that the company will invade the Big Apple toward the end of the month in order to host an event centered around a media related announcement.
Grand Theft Auto, or GTA as it is more affectionately known, is a multi award winning video game series which can trace its roots to the United Kingdom and the development company Rockstar North. Although criticized at times by sections of the media due to it containing violent missions, the GTA series of games have been unbelievably successful, selling more than 124 million copies worldwide across various platforms.
Snapseed - one of the most critically acclaimed iOS apps of last year - has gone free for what seems to be a limited time offer. We’ve got the app’s details and a download link in place after the jump!
It's been a massive year in the tech world, with so many huge stories coming out of everyone's favorite companies. Be it Apple, Google, Microsoft or one of the many other players in the space, someone, somewhere has been busy making the news.
Apple's TV set top box, the Apple TV is almost a forgotten device at this point. Apple themselves famously once called the iTunes streaming box a "hobby," but we all thought that may change with the redesign that brought us the Apple TV 2G and an iOS-based operating system.
