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George Hotz, known to many of us as 'GeoHot' made his claim to fame by hacking and unlocking the original iPhone. Since then he has played an important hand in numerous jailbreaks such as limera1n and blackra1n, but more recently his ability to hack then once unpenetrable Sony PS3 supplanted his claim as one of...

The big story of the day is Microsoft's $300 million investment into Barnes & Noble, a company they had previously sued over claims the latter's Nook e-reader that ran on a version of Android OS infringed on its patents. The partnership has settled the patent litigation, and a new subsidiary has been formed: The new...

A few days ago we heard about an awkward protest outside the Sydney Apple Store by a group of people dressed in black and shouting 'wake up'. Many were quick to allude the stunt was the brainchild of Samsung but the company later denied any involvement to SlashGear: Samsung Electronics Australia has nothing to do...

With iPhone 5 coming out later this year, we have heard lots of rumours about what the new features or design might be. This time around we are showing you a simple concept video from Aatma. They have previously shown as what they think the new iPad could have looked like, and also what they...

Every app developer is not necessarily an expert app designer too. Designing an app is totally different from developing it and is therefore usually done by different people too. Obviously there are guidelines for either department and this nice little infographic here is one such guide, aimed to assist today's iOS app designers. It has...

Now here's an interesting Saturday read. The New York Times has a detailed report on how Apple saves billions in corporate taxes annually worldwide. Other tech giants such as Google, Yahoo and Dell also follow similar practices. One particular method to save taxes is via the setup of a subsidiary in Reno, Nevada--where the corporate tax...

A couple of weeks back, we reported that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung were planning to meet in San Francisco for a court-moderated discussion, in order to settle the long-standing patent dispute between the two companies. Today, Foss Patents has reported that the meeting has now been finalized between Tim Cook (Apple) and Gee-Sung Choi (Samsung) which is scheduled to take place...

Tony Fadell, Apple's ex Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, has revealed an interesting truth about the original iPhone's development in an interview with The Verge. He claims that a hardware keyboard was seriously considered within Apple "before the iconic touchscreen-only design was given the green light". Furthermore, he said that there were two other versions of the device...

More chatter of an upcoming 'iTV' has surfaced, based on Apple's apparent talks with Hollywood-backed EPIX to stream films to iOS devices and an upcoming Apple television, notes Reuters: Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is backed by three major movie studios, on devices including a long-anticipated...

Apple's stock price (AAPL: $603.10) has been growing at a rapid pace for the past many months. In the light of this steady growth as well as Apple's blowout Q2 2012 earnings, analysts are predicting that the share price will hit $1,111 by April 2013, according to AllThingsD. Furthermore, Apple will become the world’s first trillion-dollar company...

The tech world was buzzing when it was revealed Facebook had acquired the hot photo sharing app Instagram for a $1 billion dollar cash and stock deal. Instagram has no ad revenue model, but its userbase has grown like a weed to more than 30 million users in less than two years. Venture Beat describes...

Back in February, Apple acquired three year old start up Chomp for a reported $50 million dollars. The app discovery service acquisition leads many of us to believe a revamp of the App Store is coming soon. Now, it appears after the Apple takeover of Chomp, Cupertino has pulled the plug on the Android side...