According to a report by WPP’s “BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands”, Apple has surpassed Google to become world’s most valuable brand. The brand value of Apple has increased 859% since the year 2006.
We've all been there. Apple releases a new version of iOS, you wait for the jailbreak to become available and you update. The problem now though is you're left facing the long and tedious task of getting your iPhone back to just the way you like it. After a good while becoming intimately acquainted with Cydia and a lot of restarts later you're done. But chances are you've forgotten something and you'll be doing the Cydia shuffle again.
If you're a big Facebook user, chances are you've run into the odd occasion when you've posted an update that apparently nobody saw. It's like you've been cut off from your friends, and while they thought you'd fallen off the face of the planet you'd actually been waxing lyrical with nobody to read it. If it's happened to you, BookMarketingMaven knows how to fix it.
Hot on the heals of a new episodic game featuring Osama Bin Laden's killing comes a Counter Strike map based on his $1million lair.
If you cast your minds back a couple of months, you'll remember how we told you that AT&T had begun clamping down on people using tethering on their iPhones without paying for the upgraded tethering plan. Emails and SMS messages were sent informing customers that if they continued to tether they would be charged for it. At the time we weren't sure how AT&T knew which people were actually tethering, but now we do and more importantly, we know how to get around it.
May 1st's killing of Osama Bin Laden has spawned numerous memes, and the Abbottabad mission shows no sign of leaving the news any time soon. Now to get in on the action, independent game developer Kuma Games has put together a first-person shooter based on the mission to kill the terror chief.
The reason behind the delay of Apple's white iPhone 4 was always thought to be related to an issue making the white coloring work with a couple of key parts of the handset - particularly the proximity sensor. In a post on the NYTimes website, Nick Bilton has gotten hold of a first-run white handset and compared it with the new production models we can buy today.
Just like how it was when iOS 4.3.2 was released, it seems like some iPhone users are having trouble when restoring their device to either stock, or custom iOS 4.3.3 firmware.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at Sony HQ these days. After previously saying they hoped to bring their PlayStation Network back online this weekend, Sony has had to postpone the much-awaited return of the service due to a third wave of attacks aimed at the Japanese giant.
Hot on the heals of the iPhone location fiasco (or 'locationgate' for those with a flair for the overly-dramatic) comes Footprints, an application for tracking iOS devices, but in a good way.
