Is Apple’s iPhone and iPad “Jailbreaking” Patent Practical: An Analysis

Apple Inc. is planning to take the iPhone and iPod users head-on, who are using the jailbroken applications. The company has applied for patenting the technology of remotely blocking those iPhones and iPods which are loaded with pirated applications, software and games popularly known as jailbreaking apps. This technology is one more measure taken ...

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iPad as the new workhorse

Note to IT: If you think all those iPads hanging around the office are just being used by dilatory employees to check Facebook and play Scrabble, the latest quarterly mobile workforce report from iPass would suggest otherwise. According to the survey released today, 16.3 per cent of mobile employees have an iPad or tablet ...

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Does iPad + keyboard case = goodbye, Netbook?

We've waited for one for months, and now someone's finally done it: an iPad case with a keyboard is finally here. Actually, it's already sold out. The KeyCase iPad Folio with Integrated Bluetooth Keyboard is a thin leather stand-type case for the iPad not unlike other cases we've seen, except with a silicone Bluetooth 2.0 ...

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Amazon: New Kindle Outselling Previous Versions

Amazon.com says its latest Kindle, due Aug. 25, is outselling its predecessors in the month since its launch. That suggests the e-reader market remains strong despite Apple’s iPad.

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Google’s iPhone App Adds Calendar Alerts, Useless Gmail Feature

Apple and Google haven’t been BFFs lately, but the search giant still seems to care about iPhone users. Kind of, sort of. Google this week released an update for its Google Mobile app for iPhone, which introduces push notifications for Google’s calendar and a barely functional push feature for Google mail.

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John Naughton: Has the web really had its day?

"The web is dead. Long live the internet" was the headline for an article by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff in the latest issue of Wired magazine. "Over the past few years," burbled Anderson-Wolff, "one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open web to semi-closed platforms ...

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Not Quite Hawaii but…Ocean Blue

Enjoy the fantastic experiences in the beautiful ocean with lifelike graphics! With the 2.0.0 Version, you can now own Clownfish, Bluetang, Sea Turtle and Hammerhead Shark as well! Place yourself in the flippers of a diver and enjoy interacting-feeding and shocking- with beautiful marine animals in the comfort of your home.

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Adobe Photoshop Express Adds iPad Support

Adobe Systems has renamed and updated its popular free iPhone application Adobe Photoshop Mobile. Adobe Photoshop Express, which lets users quickly edit and share photos from Apple's mobile devices, adds support for the iPad. Users can choose from a variety of one-touch effects, or simply drag a finger across the screen to crop, rotate or adjust ...

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Take your flash cards with you

Cramberry, an application for fun, easy, and efficient flash card memorization on the web, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, received a major update today. This new version of Cramberry adds a brand new, more intuitive and visually rich user interface and a more efficient algorithm for presenting flash cards. Lateral Communications, Inc., the makers ...

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Can Windows 7 match up to iPad? Let’s see

There has been a lot of talk about how inefficient the Windows 7 OS is on a tablet and why it can never match up to the iPad from Apple. That it never was made for touchscreen based devices like tablet PCs, with some even comparing the OS from Microsoft on a tablet as an ...

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