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Most of you who had jailbroken iPhone 3GS and 3G handsets were probably waiting eagerly for the iPhone 4 to get cracked, too. Well, be careful what you wish for because it already has been jailbroken. The only catch is that Geohot, the hacker responsible for the jailbreak and jailbreaking previous iPhones, isn’t saying if…
On the heels of last year’s introduction of Android support for the MobiForms Developer rapid application development (RAD) tool, MobiForms announced Android support to the MobiForms Sync Server. Interested developers should know that MobiForms Sync Server enables bi-directional data replication, synchronisation and offline buffering between just about any master database server and any MobiForms mobile…
If you were hoping to be the first non-Microsoft person to get a Windows Phone 7 handsets, you’re out of luck because the software giant has already given two teens smartphones with its upcoming mobile operating system. These kids deserved it though, as Christian Hood and Eric Lo, 17 and 16, won a developer challenge…
Apple announced their new ad platform with iOS 4, which went live on July 1st. One lucky app developer showed off his returns after one day, which are, needless to say, awesome. Of course, there’s a lot of contention about making this much regularly through iAds, and this particular instance is just as likely likely…
Following up on the release of the Android 2.2 source code, affectionately named Froyo, Google has updated their software development kit. Here are the few modest changes. Adds default Search Widget. Includes proper provisioning for the platform’s Backup Manager. For more information about how to use the Backup Manager, see Data Backup. Updates the Android…
If you’re someone who likes to tinker with your phones, or just someone who just likes to test your geek muscle, then you may be happy to hear that you can now install Ubuntu onto your rooted Nexus One! With Ubuntu on your Nexus One, you can run native Ubuntu/Linux applications right from your device.…
As much as Android is very slowly starting to overtake iOS as the mobile OS on most consumers minds, one category Android is lacking in is in gaming. With Game Center being released this Fall, even Apple has embraced how popular gaming has been on the iPhone & iPad. But it looks like a major…
Symbian, the most widely used mobile operating system in the world (but for how long?) has just announced that the product development kit, or PDK, for 3.0.0 is now available for download. The PDK is for Symbian^3 now that the OS has reached Functionality Complete on June 16. It has a full build of Symbian^3…
Remember how we told you you’d have to wait a bit longer to get the iPad port of Adobe Flash 10.1 Player, dubbed Frash, on your personal iPad? Well, it looks like we were wrong about that. Despite stability issues, the developer’s (@comex) warnings that it’s not ready for public consumption, and the inability to…
There’s been a handful of ways that users have been able to achieve root access on the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, but most have been patched up with OTA updates. Well, there’s another root method in town, and it doesn’t take too kindly to getting patched up from them OTAs. This method is unlike any…