In the unlikely event that you wish to upset the delicate balance of your shiny new iPad 2, the news from over the weekend is that it can be jailbroken, and soon you’ll be able to do the same.
Twitter user @comex posted this photo showing a white iPad 2 with Jailbreak-only software Cydia running.
Jailbreaking, for the uninitiated, …
Not to be left out of the browser wars, Internet Explorer is launching their latest version of their web browser today at 2 pm ET. The release candidate can be found here – or you could just wait a few hours.
PC World got a sneak peek at SXSW: It seems that the focus of IE9 is to make sure the browser takes a back seat to the content, …
Today is pi day! So says piday.org, founded by Dan Hellerich back in 2001, for the simple reason that 3/14 is the closest anyone’s going to get to 3.14159265.
The point of pi day? To celebrate pi, of course. That means reading about pi-related mathematical strangenesses, buying pi-related merchandise, and of course, eating pie.
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When Apple unveiled the iPad back in January of 2010, the company’s competitors rightly saw a huge opportunity. Now that Steve Jobs & Co. had created the first modern tablet computer, other manufacturers could build on the ideas it originated. They could offer features that it didn’t. They could deliver more bang for the …
The ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan’s eastern regions have video games companies temporarily shuttering online game servers and delaying imminent releases.
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix said it would shut down online roleplaying games Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI, as well as its PlayOnline service, to help …
Japanese manufacturers of consumer electronics are closing down factories in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami, Bloomberg reports.
Sony has stopped operations at 10 factories, and announced donations of cash and emergency supplies.
Toyota’s 12 plants are all closed until Wednesday at the earliest, with further
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Good morning! Here’s the tech stuff that’s breaking this morning, more on the big tech news stories of the day coming up later.
Happy Pi Day!
Yay, today is Pi day! Happy 3.1415926535 to you and all your loved ones!
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News travels faster than quakes
Everyone knows news goes fast, but the Japanese disaster shows
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If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on Verizon’s first 4G phone, the wait might not be that much longer. Reports say that leaks from within HTC put March 17 as the HTC Thunderbird launch date. But after we expected it to make a debut on Valentine’s Day, perhaps keep those hopes in check.
The HTC Thunderbird is set up to …
It’s coming. No, seriously. It’s coming. The white iPhone. Phil says so.
Phil who? Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing and one of Steve Jobs’ right-hand-people.
Yesterday afternoon, in reply to Eric Anderson’s straight question (“How do I get a white iPhone?”), Schiller wrote: “The white iPhone will be available this spring …
Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new – new technologies, applications, visions or theories. But one of the most intriguing panels I’ve attended thus far was also one of the least declarative. It was held Saturday afternoon, was dubbed “Time Traveling: …
Data caps on your internet? It was only a matter of time.
Starting May 2, AT&T will start putting caps on people who surf the internet just a tad bit too much, according to DSLReports.
AT&T DSL users will be capped at 150GB, while AT&T U-verse users will get a slightly higher allowance at 250GB.
Users will probably want to be …
Investment firm Piper Jaffray sent a team of analysts out into the streets, and not so shockingly, they found that the iPad 2 had virtually sold out in retail stores. But surprise, surprise, they discovered that a vast majority – over half, in fact – of new buyers never owned the original iPad.
To get the numbers straight, 70 …