The new Apple TV has busted out of jail like Steve McQueen. The jailbroken Apple TV was revealed by iPhone hacker Joshua Hill, tweeting as P0sixninja. ‘Jailbreaking’ is the name given to cracking Apple’s restrictions on its mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. By default, the fruit-flavoured gadgets only allow you to …

Update: Our full Nokia N8 review is now live The N8 will be Nokia’s first phone to run Symbian 3. It’s still a few months away from hitting the shops, but we’ve got our hands on the N8 for an early peek. The phone was still in the throes of final software design, but we were able to ogle the …

Android creator Andy Rubin has switched his Twitter account back on to hit back at a Steve Jobs tirade over whether the Google smart phone OS is as ‘open’ as is made out. In a tweet from his account, which TechCrunch said was genuine, Rubin wrote: “the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git …

With less than eighty days to go before the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas, the tech rumor mill already is in high gear. Building off of the momentum created this year, I expect to see Android take on a major role at the electronics conference. A big part of the platform’s future hinges on tablets and …

Revenue from mobile ads for Android outstripped that for the iPhone for the first time on Millennial Mobile’s ad network in September. For its September Mobile Mix report, the mobile ad network, which hosts ads on the popular smartphone platforms, found that ad requests (the number of times a mobile ad is clicked on) on Android phones rose 26 percent …

CHICAGO–The Apple iPad has taught AT&T much about changing its business models for its connected device business, said AT&T Vice President David Haight during a speech today at the 4G World trade show here. Haight admitted that the company has seen only modest adoption of embedded 3G service in laptops. The biggest barrier for most consumers is the two-year, $60 …

After an early slip-up by French carrier SFR, HP made it official and introduced the Palm Pre 2 on Tuesday. The next-gen WebOS smartphone will indeed be available from SFR starting this Friday, but HP also revealed that the smartphone will be headed to Verizon Wireless in the coming months, as well as Canada. The Pre 2 will be the …

There are different ways you can download apps. You can download them from mobile app stores, while you can also play them on a browser with an Internet connection. Robot Unicorn Attack, for instance, is playable as a Flash game on a website, but also as a downloadable app. Flash developers have being dying to play with another platform, and …

CHICAGO–Wireless operators are adding more smarts to their networks to ensure the flood of new smartphones, tablets, and other wireless connected gadgets don’t overwhelm them. Equipment suppliers gathering here this week at 4G World to discuss the next generation of wireless network infrastructure are working not only to help wireless operators add more capacity to their network, but they are …

Nokia has announced a DAB radio headset for the N8 phone and its Symbian 3 stablemates, giving you a wealth of music and chat on the go. The headset plays DAB and DAB+ radio, firing up automatically when plugged into the phone’s micro-USB port. It has a 3.5mm jack so you can listen with your own headphones, or use those …