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For years manufacturers and carriers have tried to keep our phones locked down to their specifications. And because of that, a legal process has taken place to decide whether a consumer has the right to unlock/jailbreak their handset. In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which outlaws attempts to get around digital rights…
CyanogenMod, the wildly popular Android team of developers, announced that new M2 builds of CM10 are ready for download. This is the second monthly build of the Jelly Bean-based CyanogenMod 10 ROM. All of these builds are considered “essentially stable” and “ready to use as your daily driver.” M builds are way more stable when…
Research In Motion has made it known that consumers shouldn’t expect BlackBerry 10 handsets to hit the market until the start of 2013. An analyst believes the new devices won’t see the light of day until March. As a result, this leaves the Waterloo company a lot of time to build up BB10’s ecosystem. Today RIM announced it’s accepting…
Let’s face it – there are not that many high-quality apps available for Android tablets. In comparison, there are many more awesome iPad titles that further cement Apple’s (top) position in the tablet market. Obviously Google doesn’t like that and it has now decided to help developers make high-quality apps. To that end, the search…
webOS has been a platform on life support for some time now. As a result, parent company HP is in the process of trying to figure out how it can keep the mobile operating system relevant with an open source program. The computer maker stated that it would be an “active participant and investor in…
Man, you got to love the Android developer community. These smart folks are guardians to those left out of the loop when it comes to software updates. As a result, the incomparable CyanogenMod team is forgoing the ROM Manager app and bringing its OTA updater back from the CM5 and 6 days. This is huge…
Amazon has joined Apple in moving away from using Google Maps. Amazon has just released a developer kit for its own mapping system, which encourages developers to transition from using Google Maps to the Amazon Maps API. The reason this isn’t a surprise is because the giant ecommerce company has been rumored to dumping Google…
The world held its breath yesterday as Tim Cook went on stage to announce the iPhone 5. He along with other Apple execs talked and showed off many things we’ve already known. During the announcement we learned that all iPhone users will get their fix of iOS 6 Wednesday September 19. Well, for those of…
Samsung released a new version of its S Pen SDK to make it compatible with new functions of the Galaxy Note II. In that sense, developers will be able to make apps that interact with the S Pen even when a user hovers the S Pen over the screen — so called Air View feature.…
You guys remember webOS, right? Well, the flatlined mobile operating system is ready to show some new life, as its parent company HP has announced the beta release of the open webOS. Not too long ago, we learned of HP’s plan to snub legacy devices under its new open mobile platform initiative for developers. HP…