Ahh, those crazy hackers. They like nothing more than a bit of competition mixed in with their late nights and Mountain Dew. It appears some new-old competition just joined the race to dump the iPad 2's bootrom.
Back in the early days of jailbreaking, there was a young Cydia competitor going by the name of Icy. Working in a similar way to Cydia, Icy was always the faster, smoother and generally shinier app aggregator and download service. Unfortunately development on the app was ceased but now it's on its way back, and you can download a beta version right now.
This story that just won't go away has once again jumped into the headlines with Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs telling All Things Digital's Ina Fried that Apple isn't collecting location data in the way most of the media has claimed over the last week.
Fring has been my favorite video chat app that I use on my Galaxy Tab. I have always preferred using it because of multi-OS support for the video chat. Furthermore, the video chat always went through even if the called party had no front facing cam on his/her device. Now, Fring has just gotten even better with the four-way free video calls enabled for just everyone on the planet.
Apple has finally issued an official statement on the iPhone location tracking issue which had the whole blogosphere going into a meltdown over the fact the iPhone was tracking our every move.
We told you a couple of days ago about a handy little app that allows users to download iOS firmware files direct from the web, as well as listing what apps are required in order to jailbreak and unlock each one. The only issue was ipswDownloader was OS X only. Thanks to one individual, that's no-longer the case.
President Obama is a tech enthusiast and known for his love for BlackBerry. However, he was a little heart-broken since the BlackBerry didn't get the security clearance for the White House. Mr. President, last month, also admitted that he owns an iPad despite the fact that he believes iPad is a distractive device.
The iPhone Dev Team has updated PwnageTool to version 4.3.2 to support untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.2 using i0n1c’s exploit. All devices (except iPad 2) are supported. This includes iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch 4G/3G and Apple TV.
When YouTube launched its YouTube Live service, the prospect of watching live streamed video from all our favorite content providers excited us all. There was just one problem though - YouTube's Live streaming was very much a Flash affair, leaving us iOS fans out of luck. But as is usually the case though, there's now an app for that.
Chances are you're familiar with the web-wide overreaction to news that iOS devices have been collecting location data about us for some time, but are Apple the only one's collecting this data? Turns out, writes TheNextWeb, Google's Android is also in on the act.
