Christmas is always going to be a big time for companies like Apple and Google. With gifts being given the world over, there's a high probability that a good chunk of them run either Apple's iOS or Google's Android. Both have their own application stores.
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.
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.
Grand Theft Auto, or GTA as it is more affectionately known, is a multi award winning video game series which can trace its roots to the United Kingdom and the development company Rockstar North. Although criticized at times by sections of the media due to it containing violent missions, the GTA series of games have been unbelievably successful, selling more than 124 million copies worldwide across various platforms.
Apple's TV set top box, the Apple TV is almost a forgotten device at this point. Apple themselves famously once called the iTunes streaming box a "hobby," but we all thought that may change with the redesign that brought us the Apple TV 2G and an iOS-based operating system.
Whilst Apple has spent much of 2011 arguing patent issues in a just but often petty ongoing back and forth with Samsung, one website in particular has been overtly undercutting the Cupertino company of potentially millions.
This is the time of the year when we sit pretty much in the middle of when the current version of the iPad was released and when the industry expects the next generation device to be launched. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that the rumor mill is working on overtime with alleged leaked information, images and specifications popping up all over the web.
While iOS offers a far superior user-experience than mobile operating systems like Android, it does have some pretty annoying limitations. One of these limitations is its issues with handling compressed file-types like .zip, .rar etc. There are plenty of third-party solutions to this, and Zip Browser is one of the best. The app has gone free for a limited period and we’ve discussed its amazing features after the jump!
After a couple of months anxiously waiting, the very first iOS 5 untethered jailbreak arrived in a blaze of glory just two day ago, and techies far and wide running Apple’s latest mobile OS duly obliged to the calling of the iPhone Dev Team’s ever-reliable utility.
According to a report published earlier today, Apple is slated to unveil two new iPads next month. Details available after the jump!
