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Apple’s Surprising Marketing Blunder Along with hoards of other people, I upgraded my perfectly good iPhone 4 for the new iPhone 4S. Why? Siri. Am I happy?  No. I "listened" to the iPhone 4S launch – from live blog streams. I was honestly quite disappointed.  A faster processor?  The iPhone 4 was fast enough for me. Same "defective" exposed-glass design... Contine Reading > >

Do you remember all of those complaints we heard a couple of months ago about iOS 5 battery life? Things have been (mostly) quiet on that front for a while. Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update helped some users’ handsets to last longer, but not everyone was satisfied. Fast forward to last weekend, when the iPhone 4S finally got its first jailbreak. News spread of a jailbreak tweak that was promising a dramatic... Contine Reading > >

Summary Learn how to find out which version of software is installed on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Products Affected iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod mini, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod touch You can determine which version of software is installed on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod by navigating to the About screen: iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch 1. From the the Home Screen, tap Settings > General > About. 2.... Contine Reading > >

Anticipation for the launch of the Raspberry Pi $25 PC continues to grow as its launch window gets ever closer. Over the past few months it has been surprising to see what the tiny machine is capable of. Videos of it running Quake III, playing back 1080p video, and handling graphics-intensive particle and sprite demos have all impressed, but until now we haven’t really been able to gauge how the... Contine Reading > >

In the 7th and penultimate article of my Sybase UnWired Platform Series developing against iOS, we have created the app and now need to iteratively test. Testing the iOS/SUP application uses a combination of Apple’s Xcode Environment, the SUP Control Center and the Logs generated by the Unwired Server Below is a screen shot of the SUP Control Center web console. This is where we need to register... Contine Reading > >

To get here, over that last 8 weeks, we have mentioned using a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) – the Sybase UnWired Platform (SUP) to create Mobile Business Objects (MBO’s) that abstract our datasources and define what will be synchronized to our iOS Mobile Client. Creating and using an Objective-C Object API for those MBO’s that can be used within Xcode . Now that we... Contine Reading > >

What is so special about a Converged Mobile Device (CMD) or commonly know Smart Phones? The clue is in their name and if you have asked yourself that question, then you have either never tried a device such as an iPhone or have fallen off of the earths surface for a few years. CMD’s are fully functional mobile computers, with orders-of-magnitude more computing power in them, that took man to... Contine Reading > >

Apple has taken the International Trade Commission’s month-old decision finding HTC’s Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The patent-watching Foss Patents blog says Apple quietly lodged the appeal on December 29. The blog learned from an Apple... Contine Reading > >

Apple has managed to make a lot of consumers eager to get their hands on the iPhone 4S very angry in China. Many lined up over night outside the Apple Store in the Saniltun district only to find the following morning a decision had been taken not to sell the smartphone. The doors to the store remained closed at the promised 7am opening time, which was met with angry shouts. The reason for the u-turn... Contine Reading > >

  The wait is finally over. Three months after the iPhone 4S released, Apple’s A5-powered handset finally has an untethered jailbreak. In this guide we’ll walk through the entire procedure so you can free your iPhone 4S. The tool for this jailbreak is called absinthe (apparently iOS hackers like to party). It’s an untethered jailbreak, meaning you won’t need to connect your device to a... Contine Reading > >