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 …
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11 January
FCC’s Genachowski to Congress: We need our auctions
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 …
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11 January
Is Sharp out as an iPad 3 display manufacturer?
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 …
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11 January
Razer Project Fiona is half gaming tablet, half myth
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, …
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11 January
Developer offers $5K prize for bootable Nook Tablet card
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 …
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11 January
Hands on with LG’s gesture control and 84
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 …
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11 January
Bond 50 Blu
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 …
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10 January
Sony Xperia S and Ion are first phones to drop Ericsson name
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 …
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10 January
Nokia Lumia 900 is born in the USA
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 …
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10 January
World travelers beware: LTE phones won’t get 4G abroad
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 …
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