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Musician Lukáš Kmit was in front of a crowd at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Presov, Slovakia playing his viola. In the middle of his performance, a Nokia phone ringer went off and Kmit paused. Rather than berate the embarrassed audience member like the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Kmit decided to have some fun by playing the ringtone back…
Everyone knows who Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are. Lazaridis founded Research in Motion back in 1984 and Balsillie joined in 1992. Together, the pair have led RIM since the early 90s. But who is Thorsten Heins, the new President and CEO of the Canadian company? Where did he come from and how is he going…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that RIM’s Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis will step down from their leadership positions at RIM. The pair will turn over the reigns of the Canadian company to Thorsten Heins, who is the current COO. This transition is expected to occur on Monday. Speaking with The Globe and Mail, Lazaridis said…
Both the iPhone Dev Team and pod2g posted updates about the upcoming A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. According to both sources, the technical challenges behind the jailbreak are completed and the developers are working on bug fixes before releasing the tool to the public. Pod2g says you’ll be “able to free your iPhone in…
Nike is picking up where the Jawbone Up left off with its recently announced NIKE+ Fuelband. The fitness band tracks your movement throughout the day using its 3-axis accelerometer. Like previous Nike products, the band has bluetooth which lets you share fitness information with your iPhone via the Nike+ Fuelband app. There’s also a USB port that’ll let you dock with a computer and send your fitness…
Fast Company has a tantalizing rumor for Windows Phone owners. The blog believes the Instagram team may bring its popular photo-manipulating app to Windows Phone before Android. This would be a big coup for Windows Phone as Instagram is a huge hit on iOS and the Android version, even though it’s not available, has received a…
Apple held its press event in NYC this morning and unveiled a suite of new and updated apps for education and book publishing. Front and center was iBooks 2, an updated version of the eReader app that’ll support interactive textbooks for all education levels. These textbooks will mix traditional text with interactive multimedia content. These textbooks can be updated on a regular basis and will offer students the opportunity…
Kodak confirmed Wednesday night that it has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. In its statement, the struggling camera and photography company confirmed it filed for Bankruptcy and hired Dominic DiNapoli as its Chief Restructuring Officer. Kodak will continue to do business during the Chapter 11 proceedings and hopes to emerge from the bankruptcy in 2013. In a separate development,…
LightSquared is fighting for the life of its network after a recent report suggests its LTE network will interfere with GPS devices. The company countered this report with accusations that the testing was not only flawed, but rigged to fail. The scathing accusations were made Wednesday at a press conference. LightSquared claims the Positioning, Navigation, and…
A Dutch hacker used his knowledge of SSH and jailbreaking to compromise the handsets of unsuspecting iPhone owners in the Netherlands. According to the Ars Technica report, the hacker used a port scanning tool to detect iPhones on T-mobile Netherlands that were running SSH. Many of these owners had installed an SSH daemon and failed to change the root password.…