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.
If you’re a regular follower of Redmond Pie or indeed technology news in general, you will probably have seen the constant bickering between Apple and Samsung during the course of 2011.
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.
We all very much live our lives online these days. If you're anything like us, you've got a Twitter account, a Facebook one, another for Google and maybe an Instagram and Flickr account thrown in for good measure.
Regardless of the mountainous stack of rumors which are emerging about the iPad, the reality is that we are likely to see a release of the next generation device sometime before the end of the first quarter of 2011. A release by the end of March would signal a year since the launch of the iPad 2 and be a perfect time to capitalize on the expanding tablet market.
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!
Although Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is inarguably the 'daddy' of the social networking family, Twitter has established itself using a slightly different format, and its niche lives on strongly, continuing to thrive as a main-stayer.
Facebook is a behemoth of a Social Network. With over 800 million active users, 50% of which use the service daily it is by far the largest social network in existence today, not bad for a company started by a group of college room mates. The company has also grown in size at an alarming rate in the last seven years, with more than three thousand employees and an estimated revenue of $4.2 billion in 2011.
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.
Although Chronic and iPhone Dev teams will rightfully take a share of the plaudits for releasing utilities enabling an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1, it was Corona, developed by pod2g, which made it all possible. Now the A4-only exploit is out in the open, he explains in a blog post exactly what Corona is, what it does, and how it has sped up the process to finding that elusive unmanned jailbreak.
