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Primate Labs has posted about iPad mini benchmarks showing up in Geekbench from five different models of the smaller iPad. Considering the iPad mini uses the same A5 processor found in the iPad 2, the results aren't surprising at all, with a score coming in at 745. Check it out below: The iPad 2 fares...

Equal parts military strategy and tower defense, Air Patriots delivers addiction every bit as strong as the developers at Amazon Games promise. You begin your journey as a rookie, a situation that will give you entirely too much confidence because as you work your way through to the Veteran and Pro levels, the game gets...

The latest iOS 6.1 beta build was recently seeded by Apple and it has already been jailbroken using the latest version of redsn0w 0.9.15b3. However, this doesn't work for all devices as it is pre-A5 only. This means you can only obtain a tethered jailbreak on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G running...

Time magazine used Instagram to cover the effects of Hurricane Sandy and found out that the results were pretty impressive. An article by Forbes details why one of the world's leading news magazine turned to an iPhone app to cover this historic natural disaster. The report details how Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, rounded up five photographers from the region...

The Dev-Team front man @MuscleNerd has tweeted a screenshot of his iPad Mini showing that he has successfully gained root access to the device, pretty much confirming the device is jailbreakable. As usual, he didn't add any more information to his tweet. Here's what the jailbreak master tweeted: https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/264795310285520896 While he didn't elaborate as to what he...

Popular teardown analysis website iSuppli has just completed its report regarding the Apple iPad Mini teardown and according to them, the base model for Apple's smaller tablet i.e a Wi-Fi-only 16 gigabyte iPad Mini that retails for $329, costs at least $188 to build (via AllThingsD). The reports claims that 32GB or 64GB additional memory adds only incremental cost i.e $31...

Anybody who read Apple's first attempt at an apology will agree with the courts in the UK: nice try, but do it again... this time, with feeling (or at the very least, with accuracy). The revised notice made appearances in UK newspapers earlier this week. (more…)

The iPhone Dev Team released redsn0w 0.9.15b3 a couple days ago (when iOS 6.0.1 was released) with improved bug fixes and also includes the ability for new iPad mini and iPad 4 users to save their iOS 6.0 blobs to Cydia. Muscle Nerd recommends users to stay at 6.0, but of course this is nothing new...

This week Google announced a refresh to their hardware line up and unveiled the  Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The Nexus 4 is made by LG and sports a 4.7 inch screen that rivals the industry standard Retina display (326 ppi) when it comes to pixels per inch with 320. ...

Apple updated their iPad user guide yesterday to include the latest details for the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad. The 14MB PDF document can be downloaded here or accessed directly from your iPad by visiting http://help.apple.com/ipad in Safari (or via the iPad User Guide bookmark). When accessed from an iPad, the user guide resembles the...

Apple has posted their iPad mini TV ad, "Piano" to their YouTube channel: Introducing iPad mini. It's every inch an iPad. The commercial was first aired at the iPad mini keynote held on October 24th and also the same ad Conan O'Brien based a recent spoof on. Today was the worldwide launch of the iPad mini...

An SEC Form 4 was filed this afternoon by Apple to indicate their SVP and General Counsel Bruce Sewell sold 5,137 shares of stock yesterday at the price of $600 each, for a total amount worth $3.08 million. Apple's Leadership page bio on Sewell: Bruce Sewell is Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president of...