PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets Category - Page 13

As you may very well know, A5-based iOS devices, the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, running iOS 5.0 and iOS 5.0.1 were not jailbreakable until recently, when a team of super iOS hackers lead by Pod2g started working on an untethered jailbreak tool for them. We’ve seen evidence that [...]

We’ve been following the Google Fiber launch since its inception almost two years ago, and the current word is not looking at all good for either Google or Kansas City (the one in Kansas, anyway) as a delay has cropped up. The issue here is one of wiring placement, and [...]

Asus has unveiled their latest business class notebook. An ultra-portable design with a 12.5 inch display. The notebook is the Asus B23E and based on the specs we have seen, it appears to be aimed at the more high-end crowd. Of course, with a simple black styling, we have to [...]

The U.S. military is known to use video games and simulators in training soldiers for combat and other missions. In a new effort to involve the public, the organization plans to crowdsource software testing initiatives through games.

Google wants to clean up the web, at least in terms of websites that have too many ads that tend to overpower content. In its latest update, Google’s “page layout” algorithm will reduce the ranking of sites that have too many above-the-fold advertisements.

Apple launched today three new apps that will change the education business in the U.S. and maybe in other countries too in the future. These are iBooks 2, which is basically an update for the original iBooks application that brings textbooks to the iBookstore, iTunes U and iBooks Author. While [...]

I’m growing increasingly fond of Hulu. There’s a lot of television in there, and much of it is at least reasonably good. And the price is right, especially if you’re willing to put up with just a bit of advertising, and much less than the average television show on a [...]

Since Apple no longer joins in the fray out at CES, they’ve pretty much gone to hosting their own media events, which pretty much always offer something new and interesting in the way of news. And today’s event was no exception. We’d already heard something about Apple’s plans to dominate [...]

In case you forgot, Apple held a special media event today in New York focused on textbooks and education, another business the company wants to reinvent. In addition to the iTuens U for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch, the company also launched iBooks 2 for iPad, a totally new eBooks [...]

We just saw the news that Virgin Mobile USA was going to begin throttling their heavy users come late-March and it looks like T-Mobile will soon be offering a few new plans for heavy data users. Of course, we should clarify this right up front that at the moment — [...]