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Sony announced today on its blog that it won’t update it’s Xperia Play handset to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The company says the complexity of the gaming environment makes its difficult to upgrade the handset. Rather than sacrifice performance, Sony has decided to keep the phone at Gingerbread. Other handset like the Xperia S, Xperia…
Planetbeing, pod2g, and other members of the chronic dev team were at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam where they announced the details on Absinthe 2.0. The jailbreak tool is now available to the public and includes an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1. If you’ve already jailbroken your device using RedSn0w for iOS…
Big changes may be coming to the open source version of webOS. A rumor from The Verge suggests the team that’s been working on Enyo will leave HP and join Google. The change is expected to happen as early as next week. Enyo is the underlying JavaScript framework for the webOS platform. After former HP CEO Leo…
Microsoft won a small victory in its patent battle with Motorola. A ruling handed down by The Munich Regional Court said Motorola violated a text messaging patent held by Microsoft. The patent describes a method of “communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardized interface.” Microsoft can enforce a ban on the sale of Motorola…
Google announced today on its blog that it’s letting developers offer subscriptions using Google Play’s in-app billing system. One of the first developers to take advantage of this new payment system is Glu Mobile. Android users who download subscription-enabled apps like Frontline Commando will be able to buy a VIP package from within the app.…
According to Bloomberg, Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Officer Rene Obermann was speaking to a crowd of shareholders at an annual meeting in Cologne, Germany today and told them the telecom giant is not interested in a complete sale of T-Mobile USA. DT may be a bit gun-shy about a sale after its acquisition by…
Apple is continuing its series of celebrity Siri advertisements with two new commercials from actor John Malkovich. Titled “Life” and “Joke“, the two Malkovich ads are much more offbeat and philosophical than the sing-songy Zooey commercial and the very routine Samuel L. Jackson ad. Apple posted the new Malkovich commercials on its YouTube channel, so…
Yahoo took everyone by surprise and introduced a new web browsing experience called Axis. Yahoo Axis has both a desktop component that’ll work with most major browsers and a mobile component that’s compatible with the iPhone and iPad. Users with both the desktop and mobile version can sync their searches and Axis homepage between devices.…
I’m a big fan of hardware teardowns and enjoy looking inside a device. The best part is getting to see how each manufacturer uses a different design, yet still manages to squeeze similar components into such a tiny space. One of the latest teardowns to hit the Internet is from DirectFix, which takes apart an…
The current volume of patent litigation between technology companies is staggering. It seems every day there is another lawsuit, another decision or another import ban. You really can’t appreciate the tangled web of lawsuits from the individual news stories, you have to see it to believe it. Thanks to Visual.ly and its latest infographic, we…