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Apple's online store has updated its iPhone 5 shipping times. Previously set at 3 to 4 weeks, all models of the iPhone 5 are now showing availability as 2 to 3 weeks: Pre-orders took place on September 14th and within an hour or so shipping estimates slipped to 2 to 3 weeks, then eventually 3...

Apple has released iOS 6.1 beta 2 to developers, build 10B5105c, an over-the-air update. Also made available is a new beta version of Apple TV software and Xcode 4.6 Developer Preview 2. The iPhone 5 update comes in at roughly 98MB. iOS 6.1 beta 1 was released to developers on November 1st. Stay tuned to see...

A cool Kickstarter project by the name of Romo, is an affordable, personal robot that uses your iPhone or iPod touch as its brain. According to the developers, this next-gen Romo is almost everything a personal robot should be i.e cute, responsive and really fast, though it's still not capable of doing all that stuff you see in the...

If you have a problem with your iPhone and turn to the best place to take care of the issue -- the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store -- you'll will now have to comply with an new requirement before being allowed to make an appoint to see a Genius. You will now be...

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research In Motion, has today announced in a press release that the company is going to hold the BlackBerry 10 launch event on January 30, 2013. The event is set to take place in multiple countries around the globe, where new BlackBerry smartphones and their availability will be revealed. RIM's highly anticipated...

Although Apple's press release doesn't mention it, HTC will have to pay Apple licensing fees for each Android device it sells, which may shrink the Taiwanese manufacturer's profit margin. (more…)

The "I hate you, but I can't live without you" relationship between Apple and Samsung is turning out to be very profitable for the latter, as it is a supplier of key components of Apple's mobile devices. As the Korean daily Chosun Ilbo reports, Samsung has increased the price of manufacturing Apple's iPhone and iPad...

iH8Sn0w has just updated its popular Sn0wbreeze jailbreak tool that is used by Windows users to support the latest iOS 6 firmware. Sn0wbreeze v2.9.7 is for all Windows users (Window 8 included) who want to jailbreak their A4 devices -- iPhone 3GS/4 -- running iOS 6 and iOS 6.0.1. (more…)

According to Digitimes, Apple is said to start trial production of the next iPhone 5S as early as December, based on a report from Taiwanese financial newspaper the Commercial Times. The latter reports the next iteration of the iPhone will have production volumes of 50,000-100,000 units. Facing low yield rates in the production of iPhone...

Apple has posted two new iPad mini TV ads to their YouTube channel, after debuting them on their website earlier this afternoon. Both videos demonstrate the iPad mini can do exactly what the regular-sized iPad can do. In the ad titled "Books", there is a demonstration of iBooks and in "Photos", we see how easy...

Just last week a fake version of SBSettings, a popular jailbreak tweak, made its way into the App Store. Now, it appears another knock off version of a popular jailbreak tweak has snuck past Apple into the store again. This time it's a crafty fake of Intelliborn's IntelliScreenX, normally available for $9.99 via Cydia.  The...

An iPhone 5 jailbreak is far away, and there are more important things keeping Joshua Hill (or p0sixninja) busy lately. But what is more important -- you may ask just as others have -- than jailbreaking the latest iPhone? Read on to find out. p0sixninja recently tweeted that he is working on something more important...