This afternoon Research in Motion (RIM) released a press release stating that the company has hired J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to assist in creating a “strategic review”. This news comes as the company is about to lay off upwards of 3,000 employees and is struggling to manage over $1 billion in unsold inventory....
If you're like me and you're waiting for Research in Motion's (RIM) Playbook to go on a mega fire sale (because the company is slowly sinking), we may soon be in luck! Last quarter, RIM's mountain of unsold Blackberry devices and Playbook tablets shot past $1 billion in value, further revealing the struggles that the...
If you've ever wondered how Apple gets color into their aluminum products, or if you just enjoy science and engineering, then check out this video by Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy. As many know, Apple uses an anodized aluminum finish on many of its products to keep them from corroding and to also provide a...
Apple CEO Tim Cook will be starting the D10 conference tonight as the headlining interviewee. The chat begins tonight at 6PM PDT. This interview is Cook's second public interview this year. His first was at the Goldman Sachs' annual Technology and Internet Conference. There Cook discussed worker safety, financials, products, and Apple's culture. The interview...
This morning Apple updated their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) page with new information, a schedule of events, and a new app. From the News page, attendees now have access to the event schedule for various labs, sessions, and events. There is also an available grid for registration and event hours. Along with the news...
Earlier tonight the Chronic Dev-Team announced that 1,000,000 iDevices have been jailbroken with Absinthe. Some stats since release of #Absinthe - 211,401 jailbroken iPad3's and 973,086 devices newly jailbroken! #JBFTW ! ;D Absinthe was released earlier this week and then recently updated with support for all iOS 5.1.1 builds. For an Absinthe jailbreaking tutorial, click...
Yesterday we saw the release of Absinthe 2.0 to jailbreak your iOS devices on iOS 5.1.1. Within a few hours, an updated 2.0.1 version was released to fix some bugs. Version 2.0.1 worked for the majority of users. However later last night, Apple pushed out an updated build, 9B208, of iOS 5.1.1 for the GSM...
Late tonight, iH8Sn0w updated sn0wbreeze to be able to perform an untethered jailbreak of A4 iDevices running iOS 5.1.1. As indicated in the post, sn0wbreeze now supports the iOS 5.1.1 build 9B206 untether that was released earlier today in Absinthe. The update also supports iOS 5.0 build 9B206f (Apple TV 2) and further brought some interface...
Tonight Apple released a revised version of iOS 5.1.1 for only the iPhone 4. The original build of iOS 5.1.1 is labeled 9B206, while the new build is labeled 9B208. As indicated by the build number, the iOS release is two builds newer and most likely has a small fix. At this time the revised...
Today the official WordPress for iOS app was updated to version 3.0. The update brought two new features that should be useful to those who use WordPress for their websites. The first new feature is Push Notifications for WordPress.com. Users with a WordPress.com blog that also use the app will now be able to receive...
Earlier this morning, the long waited iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak was released (and then updated). However, elite hackers behind the many different jailbreaking methods are not ready to stop. According to a report from Softpedia, the 2012 Hack in the Box event being held in Amsterdam showcased work from the Dream Team (a jailbreaking group), in which...
If you've ever wondered exactly where your iPhone came from, it was most likely manufactured and shipped from Foxconn's Zhengzhou production plant. According to a report by M.I.C Gadget, the Zhengzhou plant now produces 70% of Apple's iPhones. The plant is known to produce upwards of 200,000 iPhones per day, with the goal of doubling...
