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The iPhone 3G S has been jailbroken!

iPhone 3G S owners rejoice! The 3G S has been freed of the tethers that Apple imposes on it as the jalbreakers [GeoHot] have finally broken the iPhone 3G S. This makes the third device to fall and get pwned by this talented team of people. The new jailbreak is called purplera1n and can be found at purplera1n.com after you grab this wonderful piece of software you will need to connect your phone to iTunes and run the app. But, before you get too excited there are some precautions. Make sure you are not running any version of 3.1. You will also need to use

Apple, Companies

Buyer Beware: Apple sets iPhone operating temperature at 35C/95F

It looks like Apple’s iPhone 3G and 3GS phones can’t stand the heat [literally]. After being faced with a numerous stories coming from warmer countries, the company moved forward to release a temperature warning. According to the official Apple’s page, the acceptable operating temperature is ranging from zero to 35 degrees Celsius, e.g. 32-95 Fahrenheit: "Operate iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to temporarily stop working properly. Store iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a place where the

Apple, Companies, Graphics, Hardware

nVidia ION2 chipset to use G220 GPU, support DirectX 10.1?

Since Ion started to gain traction, we aren’t surprised to hear that ION2 is shaping up nicely. Given the license dispute with Intel, we weren’t surprised to hear from our sources that nVidia will support Atom and Core 2 architecture, e.g. FSB-based processors. Core i3 and i5 remain out of hand, but our sources close to the company claim that there aren’t many issues around supporting AMD architecture instead. "We are a founding member of HyperTransport consortium, we were the first company to market with HyperTransport; remember that nForce 1 used HyperTransport between IGP and MCP on Xbox console in 2001, two years before AMD

Apple, Companies, Hardware

iPhone 3G S – Three Days after Launch

It is time for an iPhone 3G S update; after all it is the Monday after the big release. Here is how it all stands For sheer numbers Apple managed to push over one million of these out the door. The 3G S remains un-jailbroken and cannot be unlocked just yet [although 2G and 3G phones can be jailbroken and the 2G can be unlocked with redsn0w]. From personal experience I can tell you that on Saturday at 12:00pm AT&T in Central Florida was claiming to be out of stock and “pre-ordering” the iPhone 3G S. [I thought pre-ordering was done before something was launched…]

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Batterygate Part 1: The nits picking begins

Recently, there?s been a bit of a stir in the online tech community over the numbers being reported for the battery life on laptops, notebooks, and netbooks. While this isn?t the first time such numbers have been questioned, it seems to have suddenly resonated with many consumers and now it seems like everyone is up in arms about the lack of realistic battery benchmarks. Much of this fuss stems from a few blog posts made by a few people over at AMD and the Twitter community surrounding them, but that?s merely where the spark originated. The current distain for outrageous battery life claims certainly is

Apple, Companies, Hardware

iPhone 4G, Pre 2 – all getting Quad-Core processors in 2010?

While most of media ended up surprised after learning that Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3G S use the same dual-core Cortex-A8 SoC processor, the real battle will only come next year. ARM plans to aggressively fight off any challengers in the mobile arena, especially with the arrival of x86 instruction set in a form of Intel Medfield all-in-one processor. Intel is no stranger, and with nVidia looking to be ARM’s largest customer with Tegra, ARM knew it has to pull off something special. The answer is Cortex-A9 core, available as a single-, dual- and quad-core design. The processor features a superscalar execution pipeline with

Apple, Companies, Software Programs

F1 Timing/Positioning application released in App Store

After Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone got burned with his pay-per-view service in 2002, the Formula One sport was leashed of high-tech feedback, reducing itself to crappy 1990s-style TV coverage and that was that. Things changed with Kangaroo TV, a service for racetrack visitors and now Soft Pauer Ltd, a small British developer is bringing similar feeling to all the iPhones and iPod touches. The application brings timing and positioning services for all the F1 fans owning an Apple product. F1 Timing app shows of the good capabilities of Soft Pauer’s programmers, utilizing iPhone and 3G network to show real time positioning of the cars

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Do we really need iPhone OS 3.0?

With the launch date of Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 and its limited number of new features you have to wonder if it is going to really be worth the time that it will take to upgrade. After all, the feature list is not impressive with the notable exception of a very small minority of items most can be accomplished through a quick jailbreak. Let’s take a look at a few. Tethering This is one that should have been available from the beginning but many carriers were already worried about the bandwidth iPhone users would take up so most wanted it blocked. Since iPhone 1.0 you

Apple, Business, Companies

Palm Pre is hot stuff and getting more attention than new iPhone

Palm Pre continues to be the darling of the tech pubs for this week. Rumors and news abound. Rumors vacillate from the complete sale of all the Palm Pre units to saying another shipment is sitting on the docks. We telephoned a few California Best Buy and Radio Shack retailers to see if they had any units available. All but one said they were sold out. However, they all said new product would be on their shelves by the end of next week. There has been a lot going on with Palm. In 2007, Jon Rubinstein, one of the key execs behind the Apple iPod

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Apple Marketing; – The Greatest Show on Earth

So the iPhone 3G S is coming, we have heard the announcement, many watched the live blogs and streams coming out of WWDC yesterday. If you were watching any of the live video streams you heard the thunderous applause given to many of the announcements. It was exciting; the fever of a new product announcement was in the air… But in reality, why were people applauding? At one point I saw people standing up and cheering at the announcement of Copy and Paste being added to the iPhone OS 3.0, I would not be cheering but yelling “It’s about F*(king time!!” After all Windows Mobile

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Apple Control – The Morality Police

Apple’s application approval process has been criticized by many including Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The issue seems to come from the fact that Apple legally does not have to allow any applications at all in the iTunes Store. Since it is controlled exclusively by Apple they are the final say and can be as arbitrary as they want. We have seen plenty of examples of this in the recent months. At the beginning of the year Apple banned a Fart Generating App calling it Offensive, they later changed their minds and allowed the app to be published [after all who does not like

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Kindle and iPhone make love, not war – until Apple "iPad" arrives

Following the introduction of an improved Kindle device last month that packs a large screen suitable for reading newspapers and magazines. In addition to books, Amazon has also unveiled iPhone-optimized version of the Kindle Store reformatted for a better appearance in the mobile version of Safari browser. It is this intentional invitation of the iPhone platform to Kindle’s territory that is worrying some Amazon fans who even spell doom for Kindle as a result of this. In reality, Apple’s iPhone can only dream of replacing Kindle for reading e-books on the go. Steve Jobs: "Books are dead." Seriously? In fact, Amazon’s smash success with Kindle

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Is Apple making an ARM-based System-On-Chip processor?

It is more than obvious that Apple follow the footsteps of Microsoft and create a line of Apple-branded chips. Just like Microsoft licensed the CPU technology from IBM [IBM Watermoose or Microsoft Xenon] and GPU technology from ATI [ATI R400 or Microsoft Xenos], creating XCPU and XGPU – Apple is planning to do the same with their own hardware. Apple went the more direct route – the company acquired PA Semi and a number of executives from IBM, AMD and started hiring top programmers in the industry. We just looked at Apple’s job listing site and encountered an interesting position for currently fabless, non-silicon manufacturing

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Consumer Reports fakes a consumer report about Macs?

Recently, we wrote an article about the Mac tax and how ridiculous some ridiculous statements had been made by the media in regards to the cost of Macs versus PCs. Today, we come against another form of media claiming that Macs are indeed better than PCs. This time, though, the bias is blatantly shown by what was once considered a respectable measure of product quality and value, Consumer Reports. It had been brought to my attention by a blogger on laptopmag.com by the name of Dana Wollman. The blogger specifically responds to a claim by AppleInsider that MacBooks swept the latest Consumer Report scores. Unfortunately

Apple, Companies, Entertainment

iPhone Game Review – Zombieville USA

With the popularity of the iPhone it seems that everyone wants their smart phone to be a source of mobile entertainment. To this effect the other developers of mobile operating systems are working more and more “fun” into their own designs. We hear about Microsoft’s Mobile App Store, Android has one now and these will be populated with all types of applications but how much do you want to bet that the most popular ones are also the least productive? We have thought about this and decided to take a look into these applications, so today we bring you the first ever Bright Side of

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Price wars: Cheap Macs are Utopian dreaming

These days, everyone is pressuring Apple to slash Macs prices or else… While the promise of ultra-cheap Macs that can match commodity PC clones on price seems God-given, in reality such move wouldn’t necessarily translate into a justifiable market share gain. In addition, Apple’s entrance into the commodity segment would surely devalue the brand. As a result, Apple would effectively surrender the premium market segment to others. Yes, we need cheaper Macs – we just don’t need ultra-cheap Macs. If you have been closely following Apple lately, your heart may have skipped a beat on this rumor about imminent price cuts across the Mac lineup. As usual

Apple, Business, Companies, Enterprise, Graphics

Former AMD Graphics Group CTO Bob Drebin now works for Apple

Former CTO for Graphics Products Group at AMD & Engineering Director / Fellow at ATI, Bob Drebin has updated his LinkedIn profile and aparently now works for Apple. His new job description says only "Senior Director", but we’re sure there’s more to it. His experience profile shows quite some impressive companies like Pixar, SGI, ArtX and Lucasfilm that Mr. Drebin has worked for in the past. We wish him all the best at his new position.

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Adobe responds: Jim Goldman from CNBC is misleading the public

A story on Neowin raised a lot of fuss when guys caught Jim Goldman, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief and a major Mac fanboy [how can a person claim to be a objective journalist and a fanboy, is beyond me, Ed.] claiming that Apple bundles Photoshop with Macs. Since we recently went on a shopping spree to buy the third octal-core for our video studio – and discovered that Apple doesn’t bundle Photoshop, we wanted to check did somebody drank too much Apple-flavored Kool-Aid or just got a free laptop that had Photoshop installed, and thought everybody gets the same treatment. We asked Adobe if the

Apple, Audio/Video, Companies

ZDNet and Objectivity Paradigm: The Best Spin Ever Heard

Today while researching the article we published on the new Apple ads I found what has to be the most impressive spin I have ever read. For years Apple Fans have maintained that OSX is more secure and robust than Windows due to the small number of viruses in the wild for the operating system. Windows supporters have countered that this is due to the small foot print OSX has in the market. Further adding that the large number of viruses is due to the large market share Windows has and that Malware writers go for the larger impact. The Apple gang counters that does

Apple, Cloud Computing, Companies, Software Programs

Google introduces improved Gmail for Android and iPhone

The new version of this cloud-based application should be faster in opening e-mails, quicker navigation and searching through your Gmail account. New Gmail app brings several much wanted features such as selecting more than one message [you can Archive, Delete, Mark as read/Unread or Spam, Bacon and Sausage], floating tool bar [moves as you move/scroll through messages], and the search button is now moved on the top of the page for easier usage. This version brings improved caching as well – when the internet connection is bad/nonexistent you can still open recently read messages and write new ones and when the connection is restored, the