Oh Samsung, why do you do it to yourselves? As if having more lawsuits going on than The Pirate Bay wasn't enough to contend with for one day. The Korean firm has now managed to put its foot in it once more, this time when showing off its new media player, the Galaxy Player 5.0.
It was only last week when Apple released iOS 4.4 firmware update for the second generation Apple TV users. And today, roughly after five days of pushing that major release, iOS 4.4.1 build 9A335a has been released which likely brings bug fixes and minor performance improvements to the second-gen Apple TV.
Apple has filed a patent for in-app purchases that, if granted, could be used against competitors like Google and Microsoft, Redmond Pie has learned.
If you have already downloaded iOS 5, you might be wondering how to jailbreak it. Besides Redsn0w, Sn0wbreeze is a tool to consider, assuming that you're using an iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, 3rd-generation iPod touch, 4th-generation iPod touch or any other A4 powered device. iPad 2 and iPhone 4S support is not present as of yet.
Oh iCloud, we seem to have known all about you for so long, yet we barely know you. Apple's MobileMe replacement, and all-round data syncing system is finally out of beta, and ready for primetime (well almost, anyway).
OnLive, the fancy way of 'streaming' games to your computer or OnLive's own set-top box, excels at allowing those of us without monster PCs or Mac Pros, to play all the latest titles without needing to splash the cash on expensive upgrades by streaming the video to a client machine, and sending key and mouse commands back in the other direction. It works well, for the most part. The service even has iPad and Android clients, but that's not quite as exciting as you might think.
According to a new press statement released today, Apple will be resetting iCloud backups on September 22nd to gear up for iOS 5 GM. The news comes from a statement published on Apple’s Developer Board which says that all data backed up by beta-testers on iCloud servers will be reset (i.e. deleted) on September 22nd. No reason has been given for why this is being done, but we have reason to believe that this is an indication that we’ll see the Golden Master release of iOS 5 very soon, perhaps as soon as September 23rd.
It appears that famous jailbreak hacker MuscleNerd visited Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino earlier today, starting rumors of Apple potentially hiring another key member of the iOS jailbreaking community.
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.
Apple is known for being incredibly secretive, yet its job postings often reveal its plans for future products. As revealed by a new posting, Apple seems to be greatly looking into enhancing the capabilities of its location services in iOS.
