02 FebApple Releases iPhone Firmware 3.1.3

Apple has just release new firmware 3.1.3 and you know that means a new jailbreak is coming sometime soon, but this article is to inform you about the new features/fixes. One thing is that the iPhone 3GS will have better accuracy for the battery level, a problem where third-party programs would sometimes not launch, and a bug that could cause an application to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard.

Also, there are some security patches in the release, such as a CoreAudio fix to guard against maliciously crafted MP4 files, an ImageIO patch that similarly protects against malicious crafted TIFF images, improved handling in certain USB control messages to prevent Read more…

29 JanThe iPad Secretly Runs Flash?

One of the biggest complaints so far about Apple’s new iPad tablet device is that there is lack of support for Flash content, a limitation also placed on the iPhone. When Steve Jobs was presenting the iPad at the January 27th Apple Event, he opened up web pages that had the “broken plug-in” icon and that’s when people realized that nothing has been done with flash still.

Well, the web browsing showed in the iPad promotional video showed Read more…

27 JanThe Apple ‘iPad’ Tablet Is Finally Revealed!

The Apple Tablet has been the big talk around Apple for quite some time now, people thought it would come last year, some people thought it would never come at all.

Well, Steve Jobs did announce this Apple Tablet today January 27th 2010, named the ‘iPad’(There are lots of pictures at the bottom of the post). This device is very sleek and the specs are: .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds — 9.7 inch IPS display, Available in 16GB, 32, 64, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Full capacitive multi-touch, accelerometer, compass, speaker, microphone, and it has over a month of standby timeAnd it has over a month of standby time.

The iPad has a price tag of $499 for 16GB of iPad. That’s our base model. 32GB is $599, 64GB is $799. 3G models cost an extra $130. $629, 729, and 829 with 3G and an unlimited data plan for Read more…

25 JanAT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity On Wednesday?

It’s pretty hard to believe that CES got hardly any talk this year, this means something is coming. A lot of companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to showcase their new products at CES and still, the majority of people did not go because there wasn’t anything Apple there because they have their own event, which is on the 27th of this month.

HotHardware says that AT&T may be losing it’s iPhone exclusivity as early as Wednesday at Apple’s media event where the Tablet is supposed to be announced

According to an inside source close to the going-ons involved in all of this, a new tablet of some sort may not be the only thing on deck for next Wednesday though. We have been led to believe by an inside source that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on the same day, though it’s not yet clear what other carrier (or carriers) will be stepping in to also Read more…

21 JanApple Tablet Design Is Like A Flattened First-Generation iPhone?

New reports just came through saying that the design for the Apple Tablet is similar to all the concepts made by people a while back  but with even more similarities to the iPhone. The buttons and features are said to be almost identical to the newest iPhone, the iPhone 3GS.

Here are the details:

Nestled in an aluminum shell that leverages the Apple’s Read more…

09 NovGoogle To Buy AdMob, A Mobile Ad Company

Google plans on buying mobile advertising provider ‘AdMob’ for $750 million in stock.

AdMob is a huge ad company ,probably the biggest after Google Adsense. AdMob is seen a lot on the Android Operating System’s applications and even in the App Store for Apple.

AdMob is said to still be in its early stages and that it has a lot more things in store for the upcoming years. Could this take over the top spot in advertising over Google Adsense? I do not think so because Adsense gets helped a lot from youtube and AdMob is not incorperated with Youtube yet.

AdMob has always focused more on ads for applications rather than in a web Read more…

07 NovMotorola DROID: Android 2.0 Overview