If you’ve been patiently waiting for a jailbreak solution for your A5-based device–in other words, your iPhone 4S or iPad 2–it should be exciting news that the jailbreak community has gotten its current program out of the sandbox stage, which generally signals an imminent release. Apple According to a tweet picked up by iDownloadBlog, hacker …

LAS VEGAS–If Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has his way, the United State would have universal broadband coverage by the end of the decade. And if we really has his way, his agency will be able to reallocate the needed wireless spectrum as it sees fit. “As you know we’ve asked Congress to give the FCC the authority to …

Reports that permeated the iPad 3 rumor mill this morning peg iPad 3 manufacturers Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron Technology as having begun iPad 3 production with a March launch on the horizon. Those reports cited earlier rumors that Sharp was a main manufacturer of the high-density displays used in the iPad 3, which have now been challenged by a new …

Almost 365 days ago, Razer reached into its bag of ill-conceived concept devices and plucked out the Switchblade — a funky-looking gaming netbook that failed to materialise. Fast forward a year and Razer has plucked yet another blinder from its sack of implausibility. Behold, friends, Project Fiona. Whereas the Switchblade was based on last year’s flavour of the gadget month, …

Do you have mad Android hacking skills? Put them to good use and you might just earn $5,000–or more. N2A Cards LLC, best known for transforming Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-readers into full-blown Android tablets, has thrown down the gauntlet to the development community: first person to create a bootable Android microSD card for the Nook Tablet (the Color’s …

Now playing: Watch this: LG’s 4K television arriving October 2012 in Australia 1:58 After giving us a heads-up on its 84-inch 3D TV in the week before CES, LG’s 4K television will be arriving down under at the end of the year. Sporting a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels (“ultra-definition”) the TV will run passive 3D. One of the big arguments …

The name’s ray… Blu-ray. All 22 Bond films appear on Blu-ray for the first time this year in the Bond 50 Blu-ray collection. Shocking… positively shocking. Mix a Martini — shaken, not stirred, obvs — and invite Mish Moneypenny or Pushy Galore round to enjoy the girls, guns, gadgets and high adventure in high definition — 00720p, perhaps? All 22 …

Sony has unveiled the first phones for a decade to drop the Sony Ericsson name. Sony Ericsson becomes just Sony this year, and the Sony Xperia S and Sony Xperia Ion are the first to bear the stripped-down name. Japanese giant Sony spent £918m buying out Swedish telecoms company Ericsson, and the results are already appearing. Sony says the Xperia …

Nokia’s top-end Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, will only appear in the US, thanks to its 4G LTE technology. Following the launch of the smaller Nokia Lumia 800 in Europe, the 900 is the first Nokia Windows Phone to appear in America.  It looks a lot like the 800, itself based on the abortive Nokia N9, with a polycarbonate …

LTE may be the global standard for next-generation wireless networks, but that doesn’t mean you can take your 4G Verizon Wireless phone abroad and expect to roam on other 4G networks. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain the sad reality of why you can’t take a U.S. 4G LTE phone and expect to use it in Europe or …

Pegatron Technology, one of the major manufacturers of Apple’s iPad, has already begun filling an order of iPad 3 units to be released in March, according to a report from industry Web site Digi Times. Apple The report also states that Pegatron will be producing between 7 million and 10 million iPad 4 units set to be released in October. …

Dell is planning to re-enter the tablet market later this year with a consumer-oriented device, according to Reuters. The company previously tested the tablet waters with its enterprise-focused Dell Streak, an Android-powered device that was met with mixed reviews and that met its demise last month. But the once-dominant PC maker has learned from the mistakes of other tablet makers …

China is booming, and Apple knows it. While the only official iPhone carrier in China, China Unicom, is offering free iPhones with long-term contracts, a new competitor may be soon entering the market. Apple According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, China Telecom, the third largest wireless carrier in China may soon be offering the iPhone on its …

Kodak, steps away from potentially filing for bankruptcy protection, isn’t going to fade quietly. The company said today that it filed lawsuits against smartphone makers HTC and Apple over camera technology, just the latest attempt to get tech companies to pay a licensing fee. The new lawsuits assert that Apple infringed on four Kodak patents and that HTC infringed on …

Deutsche Telekom is trying to raise money to keep its T-Mobile USA unit competitive following AT&T’s failure to acquire the unit. The German telecom giant is looking to drum up billlions in cash by issuing bonds and possibly selling T-Mobile’s cellular towers, says a story in today’s Financial Times (registration required). Deutsche Telekom is in line to pick up $3 …