Archive for December, 2011 - Page 9

The Windows Phone Marketplace had 40,000 apps in late-November and it was expected to cross the 50,000 mark by the end of the year. And well, it looks like that milestone has since been achieved — the Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than 50,000 available apps.

Anyone remember that great bit from Monty Python’s Holy Grail? Yes, I know most of them were great, but the one I’m thinking about is the “bring out your dead” bit. You know, the one where the dead cart is going by collecting those who’ve succumbed to the plague or [...]

If you are curious about running Ice Cream Sandwich on a tablet and happen to have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet there is a new alpha release that you can now play with. Of course, as the term alpha would imply, there are some pieces that are missing which [...]

Well look what we have here, another flare up of next-generation rumors. And while we can call it the iPhone 5 for lack of a better name at this point, that is one tidbit that did not surface in this report. That being said, this latest is still firmly in [...]

Just yesterday we mentioned a new Siri project meant to bring the virtual assistant legally to the iPhone 4 and the iPod touch 4G, i4Siri, and now we hear that a public Siri port, which also happens to be a legal one, has been released via Cydia.

The home theater PC is one of those great concepts that never really, sadly, took off in a really wide fashion. And it likely won’t, especially considering how many televisions, DVD and Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes there are out there that offer the internet functionality you need in your [...]

Last week we saw proof that the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak works on A4-based iOS devices and then we heard that Pod2g completed the exploit and handed it over to the Chronic Dev Team to release it as he started work on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak.

Well, folks, another great Apple rumor has slipped out, and the rumor that we’ve been following for some time now about the Apple lineup of televisions seems to be quite a bit closer than ever before. In fact, if the current reports from Apple’s supply line pan out, we could [...]

Dropbox has recently released their latest experimental build. The new build comes as version 1.3.4 and can be found for OS X, Windows and Linux by way of the “Everything Else” section of the Dropbox user forums. This new build includes just a few new features, of which one sounds [...]

It appears as if a hacking community is building behind the Kobo Vox. And coming as a result, it looks like the ereading tablet can now run the Android Market. But that being said, just because the Kobo Vox technically has access to the Android Market at this point — [...]