UPDATE: Attention jailbreakers! Go ahead and jailbreak. Follow our guides here for both Redsnow and Snowbreeze.
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Andy Miller sold Quattro Wireless, a company he co-founded, to Apple in 2010 for $275 million. Ever since then, Andy has been the head of the iAd division at Apple. But now Miller is leaving for Highland Capital, a Boston based firm that originally funded Quattro Wireless.
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W3 Innovations, or Broken Thumbs Apps, settled for $50,000 on August 15th for a complaint from the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) that they were collecting children’s data. The company was collecting this data without the child or the parent’s knowledge. Broken Thumbs Apps sells many games including Zombie Duck Hunt, Emily’s Dress Up, and more.
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With the release of Windows 8 rumored to be April of 2012, and new builds coming out practically on a biweekly basis, we can only expect the rumor mill to get rolling. However, the newest fact about Windows 8 is not necessarily a rumor, but confirmed by Stephen Sinofsky, the project leader for Windows 8.
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Let’s do a little time travel together. The year is 1976, we are in a California garage with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak who think they are going to change the world. They begin building the Apple 1 personal computer kit and sell it for $666.66. They incorporate the company in 1977 and the rest is history. Now lets go back to 2011. Apple now has over 46,000 employees worldwide and is the Most Valuable Company in the World. That’s right, in 45 years, they went from a garage, to now being the most valuable company, in the world!
Permalink: Apple is the Most Valuable Company, In the World!
We have reported in the past that Apple will likely be releasing an iPad 3 or iPad HD this year, but those rumors appear to be debunked. There were also rumors from LG that they would have a Retina Display ready for the iPad 3 as well. Digitimes is now stating that a Retina Display won’t be ready for mass production for at least another year.
Along with todays release of Apple’s iCloud.com beta, Apple has also released the cost for iCloud upgrades. The pricing will be on a yearly basis, and seems fairly reasonable for storage space. Remember that your pictures don’t count against your tally. The storage would be used for media and backups of your device, or even devices. You can get a 10GB, 20GB or even a 50GB upgrade to your account, and everyone will still get 5GB free. The upgrade can be purchased in the iCloud Settings on your iOS device, if you are using iOS 5. See the screenshot below for the official image from iOS 5’s iCloud settings.
Permalink: Apple releases yearly iCloud pricing: 10GB for $20, 20GB for $40 and 50GB for $100
Today marks an important step in ithinkdiff’s history. We have entered into an exclusive partnership with HomeShopping.pk, Pakistan’s largest online retailer. HomeShopping ships the latest gadgets to your doorstep at some of the most competitive prices you’ll ever see. They’re also the first ones in Pakistan to fetch the latest gadgets – they introduced the iPad 2 in Pakistan on 14th March, just 3 days after its launch in the US. It’ll be launching on 25th March internationally.
I had been planning on starting a section on Apps for Windows since some time now, and no better way to start with version 2 of one of my favorite applications, The New York Times Reader. Previously based on WPF, and now shifted to Adobe Air, for cross platform compatibility, the new Times Reader 2.0 is available for Windows, Linux and OS X users. It contains some new enhancements over version 1, but most of the changes have been cosmetic. It really looks as if it was designed for the Mac only, if you take a cue from the new UI. It’s clean and slightly gray, with excellent typography and streamlined navigation. While the application itself is free, along with some of the news sections, you’ll have to shell out $3.45/week for full access. That shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the free version though, as it could cater most users very well with its variety of content. The available news sections increases on Sunday, with Magazine being the added free section for that day with several other paid ones. 
Permalink: Apps for Windows: A Review of The New York Times Reader 2.0
