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In the past years, Pope Benedict XVI urged priests to blog and asked Catholics worldwide to remain virtuous while they embrace social media. As reported on Yahoo News, the Pope is kicking off 2012 with a completely different message. Now, the Pope is promoting silence, silence and more silence. In his annual communications message, the…
AT&T announced its quarterly earnings on Thursday and reported a banner quarter that was driven by strong iPhone sales. The carrier had its best-ever quarter for smartphones, selling a record-breaking number of iPhones and Android handsets. Overall, the carrier sold 9.4 million smartphones which almost doubles it Q3 2011 sales. Smartphones are the dominant handset…
HP announced on Wednesday that, starting today, it’s making part of webOS available to the open source community. Each month, HP will release major portions of webOS, a few pieces at a time, until the entire code base is made public. HP expects to release the full code base by September and is calling the final release Open webOS 1.0. You can see the release schedule at the bottom of this…
Do you like to jailbreak your iPhone or root your Android device? If so, you better enjoy it while you can. According to the EFF, this practice of jailbreaking and rooting may become illegal again. Back in 2010, the US Copyright office said that jailbreaking or rooting of a handset does not violate Section 1201…
A leak from BGR suggests the Nokia Lumia 900 will land at AT&T on March 18th. This date isn’t surprising as earlier information pointed to a March release. What is surprising about this leak is the price point for the handset which could be as low as $99. This is much less expensive than most smartphones…
Now that the iPhone 4S has been jailbroken, there’s a huge opportunity for jailbreak developers to finally use Siri in their hacks. I previously wrote about SiriToggles, a Siri tweak that’ll let you turn toggle on/off settings like WiFi, Bluetooth, and Airplane mode. Today, there’s another one coming from Grooveshark developer Tyler Nettleton that’ll let…
Verizon released its earnings statement for Q4 2011 and the carrier had a banner quarter. The company added 1.5 million net retail customers, its biggest jump in three years. This 1.5 million figure includes 1.2 million new retail postpaid customers which brings Verizon up to 92.2 million retail customers. The wireless carrier now has a…
Virgin America tried to do a cool thing when the company named an airplane “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” The name was a tribute to Steve Jobs who used the quote in his renowned 2005 Stanford University commencement speech. It’s a nice gesture, but, unfortunately, it’s not 100% correct. You see, that quote, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is attributed to…
Tired of those Samsung versus Apple ads the Korean company is pumping out at an amazing rate? Hope not, because we have another one that’ll liven up the start of your work week. This time around, the ad focuses on a camping trip the barista guy is talking with his Apple fanboy friends. Before he…
If you have an iPhone 4S like me, you probably spent the weekend jailbreaking it and testing out new jailbreak apps and tweaks. I spent some time in Cydia and compiled a list of five packages you should install on your 4S. They’re good enough to make me think twice about going back to stock iOS when Apple rolls out its…