Apple has posted at least 10 job listings for iOS Software Engineers in an effort to quickly fix the widely criticized iOS 6 Maps application (via AppleBitch). Apple made a big mess when it decided to replace Google's maps with its own Maps app in iOS 6 and now, the company is advertising to hire a number of Software Engineers, all...
Chitika Insights has released its January tablet update today, with numbers clearly reflecting iPad's domination in tablet web share, owning over four-fifths of Web traffic in January for the US and Canada (via TNW). The iPad now has 81% tablet web share in North America, while Kindle Fire grabs 7.7%,and Galaxy line takes 3.9%. It must...
Apple has been granted 40 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office today, the most stunning of them all is display panel technology that integrates both touch and solar cells on a single panel, reports PatentlyApple. Apple may use this breakthrough configuration on portable devices, particularly handheld portable devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch....
Canadian jailbreak hero @iH8sn0w has just updated his Windows exclusive jailbreak tool sn0wbreeze to support iOS 6.0.x/6.1 untethered jailbreak, while preserving the baseband update by creating custom firmwares. (more…)
A couple of months back, we reviewed three of the best iPhone 5 cases from SwitchEasy and loved every one of them. Today, we'll be looking at three iPad mini cases from the same company — CoverBuddy™, Pelle™ and CARA™, each having a unique set of features and brilliant aesthetics. SwitchEasy CoverBuddy™ For iPad Mini As the name implies, CoverBuddy™...
Nolan Bushnell, the American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the video game company Atari, spoke in front of an admiring audience at Campus Party Brasil, in which he talked about his former employee Steve Jobs, the late CEO and co-founder of Apple (via TNW). He also talked about his efforts in shaping the future of learning with his new game-based...
The much awaited iOS 6.x jailbreak tool evasi0n was finally released earlier today for OS X, Windows and Linux platforms, allowing untethered jailbreak on iOS 6.0, iOS 6.0.1, iOS 6.0.2, and iOS 6.1 for all iOS devices including the iPhone 5, iPad mini and the New iPad. However, owners of iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G who...
Hon Hai Precision Ltd. a.k.a Foxconn, the largest manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPads with more than 1 million employees at its huge factory complexes in China, has agreed to allow its workers to elect union representatives for the first time ever, Reuters reports. The company will hold elections for a chairman and 20 members of its...
Evad3rs, the new jailbreak team comprising of @MuscleNerd @planetbeing @pimskeks and @pod2g, have been working on an untethered iOS 6 / 6.1 jailbreak solution for all current iOS devices, and have also announced the name of their upcoming jailbreak tool as "Evasi0n". According to Evasi0n.com, the project's development status has now reached 75% with a possible release...
Abdullah Gül, the president of Turkey, has today met with Apple executives including vice president for education John Couch, to discuss several issues, including a $4.5 billion program to provide as many as 15 million tablets to Turkish schools for children, reports Turkish blog Elma Dergisi (via MacRumors). (Turkish president Abdullah Gül at far left, Apple VP John...
Popular social networking service Path, who allegedly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA) by collecting kids' personal information without their parents’ consent, has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreeing to pay a fine of $800,000 (via GigaOM). The company has also agreed to purge over 3,000 accounts from the network. FTC has settled...
While speaking to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell called Apple the biggest threat to the success of Steam Box, Valve’s upcoming hardware capable of streaming games to multiple displays through local networks (via Polygon). Newell said that Apple "rolls the console guys really easily". The question is, can Valve make...
