The patent war between Apple and Samsung shows no sign of letting up, and the latest developments will only serve to keep the pair simmering along, ready to pounce at a moment's notice.
Ahh, Slide To Unlock – that most famous of iOS hallmarks. It’s the first thing you see when you pick your device up, and was one of several hundred patents filed by the late Steve Jobs.
If you ever take the time to sit and browse through Cydia you will find that the range of tweaks and modifications available for Jailbroken iOS devices is quite simple staggering. Cydia is a thriving platform that contains literally thousands of tweaks, modifications, themes and other utilities that can alter, enhance and generally improve your iOS experience.
Most iPads these days are laden with some variation of Smart Cover, which not only serves to protect the world’s number one tablet, but is, well, smart.
As a social network, Twitter has become a big player in the last year with over 200 million active account holders accounting for over 1.6 billion search queries each day. Unlike networks such as Facebook, Twitter exists to connect users to the combined knowledge of the world by allowing them to follow friends, experts, companies and celebrities.
The iPhone 4S, a device frowned upon by many when the specifications and aesthetics were announced in October 2011, but then went on to sell over four million units in the first three days of availability. For those statisticians out there that equates 1,333,333.33 million units a day, 55,555 units each hour or 926 units each minute. Not bad for a gadget which, according to some offered very little over its younger brother, the iPhone 4. The first day sales figures obliterated the previous record of held by the iPhone 4 which shifted over 600,000 pre-orders in its first day.
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.
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.
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.
