iOS 4.1 available for download
For those waiting, the time is here. Apple has officially released iOS 4.1 into the wild. Get your 30-pin dock connector and iPod Touch or …
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BlackBerry App World hits 10,000 applications
According to Research In Motion, the company now has over 10,000 applications in their application store, App World. While 10,000 is not a number to …
Android mobile web presence continues to rise
Quantacast has released their mobile web consumption numbers for August 2010, and Android continues to perform extremely well. The study shows that the Android web …
Mobile app echoecho makes check-ins personal
This week, we inadvertently stumbled across a pretty neat, cross-platform, geo-location mobile app titled echoecho. The premise behind echoecho is simple: instead of using a service like Facebook …
Net Applications: iOS has over 1% of global browsing share, Android at 0.2%
Net Applications has released their report on global browsing usage numbers for iOS, Android, and Linux. The numbers show that from October of 2009 to …
Apple posts iPad 4.2 update page, reminds you what's coming
Today, Apple posted its iPad 4.2 software update page to remind you of the improvements that the next iteration of iOS will have for your …
Google refutes Apple's activation innuendo
During yesterday’s music-event keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs informed the crowd that his company was activating around 230,000 iOS devices every day. The figure 230,000 …
Apple seeding iOS 4.1 GM to developers
If you are anxious to get iOS 4.1 onto your device, and are enrolled in Apple’s developer program, you’re in luck. Apple has just updated developer.apple.com …
Adobe CEO: we've moved on from Apple and the iPad
iPads?! We don’t need no stinking iPads! Shantanu Narayen, Adobe’s CEO, was recently asked about his feelings on Apple’s iPad, more specifically the Cupertino company’s …
NAVIGON offering 50% off all iPhone navigation apps
If you’re an iPhone owner, you have to pay for your turn-by-turn GPS applications (at this point all the Android users are smiling ear-to-ear). If …
Comex releases iOS PDF-exploit source code
Comex, the developer of the jailbreakme.com 2.0 website, has released the source code for the PDF exploit found in un-patched versions of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The …
Apple TV becoming iTV, getting application support, yet losing full HD?
Engadget is following up on their previous story about an updated Apple TV set to hit the market as a $99 set top box, complete …
Apple iPod Event Slated For Mid-September?
Rumor has it that Apple will be scheduling its annual iPod event for mid-September, which is a little bit later than in years past. This …
Apple releases iOS 4.0.2, plugs jailbreakme.com PDF exploit
Apple has just released an update to iOS, labeled iOS 4.0.2. The update, amongst other things, plugs the PDF security hole most notably used by the website …
NPD Group: Android top selling smartphone platform in U.S. for Q2
The NPD Group, “provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries,” has just published a report that indicates …
Apple releases iOS 4.1 beta 3
Hey there kids, if you have iOS 4.1 installed on your iPhone, and are registered as an Apple Developer, hit up developer.apple.com as the Cupertino …
New iPhone Jailbreakme.com method allows for malicious phone access
If you haven’t heard by now, you probably don’t have an iPhone, but you can unlock your iDevice by visting http://www.jailbreakme.com. However, the exploit used to …
The jailbreak hath set you free, iOS 4 jailbroken
Over the weekend, Comex and his gang of merry men released an over-the-web, on-device jailbreak solution for iOS 4 dubbed Jailbreak 2.0 “Star.” The process …
Simple fix for iOS 4 sluggish performance?
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was investigating the sluggish performance of iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G. While Apple is beginning …
BGR Poll: What smartphone operating system update are you most looking forward to?
We thought it might be a good time to try and take the collective smartphone OS pulse of the BGR community. The question we are …
Morning smartphone OS roundup: iOS 4.1 beta 2, Froyo for Galaxy S, Incredible with 2.2 and Sense
What happened with smartphone OS’ overnight? Here’s what… Apple released a second beta of their iOS 4.1 software to users enrolled in the Apple developer …
Apple releases iPhone OS 4.1 beta 2
That’s right, folks. iOS 4.1 beta 2 for iPhone has just Apple’s developer site. We’re diving into it, but let us know if anything pops …
AP: New government law makes it legal to unlock your phone, load 3rd party apps on iPhone
Okay, this is just in… The AP is reporting that a new federal ruling from the Library of Congress has sided with consumers, and the …
Apple moving through iPad, iPhone 4 waiting lists? Could sell 1,000,000 devices
One of our Apple sources has been communicating some internal Apple information to us, and from what we’ve been told, this weekend could be big. …
Apple to charge for iOS 4 upgrade for iPad?
This particular piece of intel rates high on the rumor-Richter scale, so do take this one with a hefty dose of salt. Stuff.tv is reporting that a …
iPhone 4 carrier unlock possible, not yet available for public consumption
Kudos to the iPhone dev team as member @Planetbeing has successfully unlocked the iPhone 4. The proof is in the picture above, which shows Bell …
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers?
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers? If you believe this survey of 401 mobile developers than yes, yes they do. Vision Mobile, a “market analysis and …
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 coming earlier than expected to AT&T?
According to a tip Engadget received, it’s possible. Apparently, some refreshed AT&T retail promotional material has been leaked, and it’s all for a July 24th …
NYT: Apple completely reworking Apple TV
The New York Times is reporting that Apple, Inc. is “working on an update to its television software” that runs on its Apple TV hardware, …
Rumor: Apple has a CDMA iPhone, just needs Verizon to ink a deal
Today, The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple wrote an interesting article that should give a lot of confused people some perspective on this whole Verizon iPhone business. …
