The iOS jailbreaking community is, I personally believe, the most active mobile OS hacking community today. The community itself is pretty small, but they are pretty productive and regularly release jailbreaks (untethered or otherwise), exciting new tweaks on Cydia and amazing themes. This may be due to the fact that iOS works only on a handful of devices, but the fact is: these guys are simply amazing.
"Something's in the air"; that's the sentence Apple coined a few years ago and applies here as well. Over the last few weeks, we've heard tidbits regarding a possible release timeline for iOS 5, including today, when a report claimed that the system will reach Golden Master status on or around September 23rd. If this wasn't enough evidence, it now turns out that AppleCare employees were told to brace themselves for an increased flux of calls around October 10th.
WhatsApp is a vastly popular cross-platform instant messaging app, used by many to replace SMS, yeonly t it supports the iPhone by default, leaving iPad and iPod touch users out in the cold. A few months ago, we reported on a method that forces WhatsApp to run on the iPad, yet we found that the exact same method can be used to install and use WhatsApp on the iPod touch.
A couple of weeks back, we featured Dolphin Browser, which aimed to take the surfing experience on the iPhone to a new level with gestures, webzine, as well as a whole host of other nifty features in one free app.
If you own an iOS device, the greatest roadblock to browsing the web you've ever run into has been Apple's insistence not to build in native support for Adobe Flash, citing performance issues that the plugin would cause. While today's development doesn't change Apple's stance, Adobe has developed a new technology that could, 4 years later, finally bring Flash content to all iOS devices, namely; iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Apple and Samsung have been in the middle of a vigorous legal battle to ban each other's products for several months, with lawsuits being filed in Europe, Korea, the United States, Australia and more recently Japan. Apple has now managed to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned in Germany after a judge ruling.
Apple has spurred several moves to ban the sale of Samsung's Galaxy product line in Europe, the United States, Australia and others. According to a new report, the Cupertino company is now moving to ban the sale of the Samsung Galaxy S, the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Japan, similarly to what it is doing in other countries.
It was a much needed addition to iOS when Apple added the ability to sort icons into folders and clear up much of the clutter that comes hand in hand while having hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from.
Over the last decades, we've witnessed a trend of an increasing number of large retailers going out of business or becoming less relevant by the day. GameStop, a popular game retailer, is trying to counter that trend by tapping into a growing and profitable market of iOS devices.
Three days ago, we heard about Samsung pulling their newly-announced Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA show floor, possibly because of Apple injunctions against Samsung’s products in Germany. This was later indirectly confirmed by the company and today, more information has been revealed about the event as well as the Apple-Samsung case in general.
