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Yesterday, Patently Apple released an extensive look at the patents that have been published revolving around Siri, the most exciting feature from the iPhone 4S. The patents that Apple has filed make it clear that they have every intention to embed Siri into many more of their products including a rumoured yet to be released HDTV....

The iPhone Dev Team, as part of their initial blog post that detailed today's Absinthe A5 jailbreak tool, has released their command-line interface (CLI) to jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2: iPhone Dev have also incorporated the exact same flow into an alternative command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through...

We've heard some bizarre iPhone and iPad stories lately. First, there was the Toronto lawyer that sued Apple when his goods got stolen, along with the professor who claimed Apple should also be responsible when she was robbed of her iPhone. Then there is the ongoing story about iPad 2 models being purchased only to...

Update 1: Absinthe v0.2 has been released. Download it here. Pod2g has just notified the world that an update has been released to GreenPois0n Absinthe just now. Version 0.1.2-2 is a new build that will point the Absinthe web clip to greenpois0n.com rather than the absinthe dedicated page, notes @pod2g. He says this will handle...

Update 1: Version 0.1.2-2 of Absinthe has been released to direct the web clip to Greepois0n.com and help your jailbreak. Download it here. -- Chronic-Dev Team has finally released the GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.1.2.-1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0/5.0.1 firmwares. Even though the jailbreak tool is pretty simple to use...

The Chronic Dev Team has just announced the release of Greenpois0n Absinthe to jailbreak your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1: To jailbreak your iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1**) and/or your iPad 2 (all Wi-Fi only, GSM & CDMA devices supported; must be running iOS 5.0.1**) –...

The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak dream team has been doing a great job of keeping the rest of the jailbreak community in the loop as to the progress of the impending tool's status. This morning, or evening depending on where you are, the most definitive and shortest ETA yet along with the upcoming...

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.3 with support for the new iBooks 2 app allowing iOS users to sync their textbook purchases as well as support for the updated iTunes U program. The new version of iTunes is available for Mac OS (102.15MB) and Windows (66.11MB -32Bit , 67.98MB-64Bit) from Apple's website. Read the full release notes after the break. What’s new...

Only a couple of days back, @iH8sn0w released his Windows exclusive sn0wbreeze jailbreak tool’s two-year anniversary update incorporating pod2g’s iOS 5.0.1 untether exploit along with some new features like an IPSW Downloader, GUI Improvements and support for older firmwares up to iOS 3.1.3. Today, he has pushed another update labelled sn0wbreeze 2.9.1 which brings a couple of minor fixes. Here is the tweet regarding the update: @iH8sn0w: "Just a bump...

By now, you must know that the highly anticipated untethered A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is almost ready for public release. The 'dream team' of iOS hackers led by @pod2g has been publishing updates regarding the jailbreak's status from time to time with latest one coming from @MuscleNerd. In a post at...

Technology that allows a merchant to begin accepting payment for their goods or services directly within a mobile device has been getting a lot of ink lately. Recently, we reported on PAYD, one of the new smartphone dongles that put the power of a credit card terminal in your pocket. But now, thanks to Card.io,...

Twitter has acquired Summify, the startup that takes news from all of your personal social media accounts and your favourite blogs and condenses it all down to the most important stories. The purchase price has not been announced but this marks the second big announcement from Vancouver-based social media startups as HootSuite recently announced hitting...