Archive for June, 2011 - Page 17

iOS 5 beta 2 Now Ready for Developer Account Holders, Full Changelog Available Here [Apple Launches iOS 5 Beta, Final Gold Master Release Still a Few Months Away]

By on Saturday, 25. June 2011

That was quick, wasn’t it? Apple rolled out a new iOS 5 beta version just a few weeks after the first beta was released. We’re looking at iOS 5 beta 2 which can be downloaded and installed on any plenty [...]

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Verizon Palm Pre 2 Gets webOS 2.1 Update [Verizon & HP Update The Second-Gen Pre To Latest Update For That Phone, General Fixes To Email, Backup & Security Included Among Other Things]

By on Saturday, 25. June 2011

The Palm Pre 2 was kind of quietly released on Verizon without much fanfare or excitement. It was the last “Palm” batch of webOS phones and devices, and I don’t think HP put much effort into promoting it and neither [...]

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Shenmue 3 Probably Not Happening, Yu Suzuki Leaving Sega [Legendary Video Game Developer Leaving Sega, Says His New Company YS NET Could Possibly Take Up Old Sega Franchises Though]

By on Saturday, 25. June 2011

If you were holding out hope for a Shenmue 3 or Shenmue Online after all these years, you might have your hopes dashed here. Legendary video game creator Yu Suzuki who was responsible for such arcade classics Hang-On, Out Run, [...]

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Nokia N950 is a MeeGo Smartphone [The N950 is Another Nokia Smartphone Running MeeGo & Looks Like the QWERTY Cousin of the N9]

By on Saturday, 25. June 2011

The Nokia N9 isn’t the only MeeGo smartphone that Nokia is launching. It seems like the N9 has a cousin that packs a QWERTY keypad.

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Skype for iPad Confirmed, Video Chat Included for iPad 2 [Skype Confirms Native iPad & iPad 2 Application, Not Available in the App Store for Download Just Yet]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

Earlier today the first screenshots of the Skype app for iPad have hit the web and they were taken from a Skype video posted and then pulled from YouTube. As always someone was watching and it was just a matter [...]

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HP Opal Coming This Summer? [7-inch webOS Tablet Rumored To Be Out This August, Should Be Similar In Size To Samsung Galaxy Tab & BlackBerry PlayBook, Coming After TouchPad]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

Do you remember the HP Opal? That was the rumored 7-inch webOS tablet that HP was said to be planning. We haven’t heard anything about the 7-inch tablet (which would compete against the Samsung Galaxy Tab, BlackBerry PlayBook amongst others) [...]

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iPad 2 Jailbreak to Hit Very Soon? [New Tweets From Comex Suggest We Could be Nearing the Release Date of JailbreakMe 3.0] (u)

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

Comex’ iPad 2 jailbreak was one of the hot topics of last week as a rumor saying that JailbreakMe 3.0 would be launched on June 17 wandered across the vast plains of the Internets only to be proven fake. Then [...]

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Droid Incredible 2 Price Cut By $50 [As Leaked, Verizon Cuts The Droid Incredible 2, Now A Good Deal For A Fast Phone If You Don't Want 4G Goodness]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

If you’ve been waiting to buy a Droid Incredible 2 by HTC on Verizon, but wished it was $50 cheaper, then you’re in luck.  Leaked Verizon documents (then backed up by it actually happening) promised that on June 20th, we’d [...]

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World of Warcraft for iPad & iPhone Coming In the Near to Distant Future? [Blizzard Seems Interested in the iOS World, But Will It Convert WoW to Smartphone & Tablet Gameplay?]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

World of Warcraft is one of Blizzard’s most successful games ever made and I bet that an iOS version of this huge franchise would make a killing in the iOS universe. How do I know that? Well… I can say [...]

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New Lawsuit Alleges Sony Knew PSN Security Was Weak [New Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Sony Claims Sony Laid Off Network Security Technicians In The Weeks Prior To PSN Attacks]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

In the aftermath of the PSN outage, Sony has been hit with a new class action lawsuit, this one claiming that Sony laid off network security employees just weeks before the attack and knew that security was weak. The lawsuit [...]

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