Merry Christmas to iPhone jailbreakers!

Once more, its the time of the year when you are bound to spend some quality time with your families and friends and as always, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Or if you do not celebrate Christmas we wish you simply happy holidays! Do not spend your time, or too much of your time anyway grieving for small time problems which after all are an essential part of life. If you are a reader of our blog on iPhones and jailbreaking we want to thank you. We certainly appreciate all the attention and comments coming from our readers. The reason we write this blog, is to provide our users with as many relevant and on spot information’s on iOS devices and jailbreaks as possible, but at the same time not becoming boring and remaining focused.

Apple probably unsuccessful in getting sales ban for Samsung’s modified Galaxy Tab tablet

Apple has slim chances to win injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy tablet in Germany, according to a statement made by a judge in Dusseldorf. The same court has earlier this year blocked Samsung from selling the tablet on the German market. The reason for this decision was the alleged similarity between Galaxy Tab and Apple’s iPad tablet. Later on, Samsung complied with the judge and slightly tweaked their tablet. These small changes helped Samsung to avoid the troublesome ban.

Amazon prevents jailbreaking of Kindle Fire with their latest firmware upgrade

It is not only Apple that is not really happy because of users daring to jailbreak their devices. While it is completely legal and safe, if you know what you are doing, Apple, Amazon and other tablet and smartphone makers think they ought to control whatever is going on on your own device. Majority of jailbreak developers and users beg to disagree. It is the same case with the latest newcomer in tablet world: Amazon with their Android tablet, Kindle Fire. Amazon has previously announced that they wont encourage, nor prevent rooting of Kindle Fire, but it seems that they have changed their mind. The latest firmware update released by Amazon is apparently going against users who have already jailbroken their new tablets.

Explosions in Pegatron iPad 2 manufacturing plant

Many rumors have arose this year about less than ideal conditions for workers employed in iPad and iPhone manufacturing factories. Among worse of the stories was the one which speculated about the high suicide rate among Foxconn employees prompting swift measures by Apple and Foxconn itself. Now there is another gruesome story about an incident in Apple producing facilities in mainland China. This time a terrible explosion happened in Pegatron plants which caused injuries of various degrees on more than 60 people, in Shanghai’s industrial park of Songjiang. 23 of those workers have been less fortunate as the injuries were so sever that they had to be hospitalized. Among other electronics, this plant is for manufacturing iPad 2 back panels.

Google working on a Siri like service ‘Majel’

iPhone 4S release introduced a bunch of completely novel concepts into mobile computing. One of the most important and unique features of iPhone 4S is certainly the voice assistant app Siri. Siri is the first good enough voice assistant ever to become available as a commercial scale technology. You could even say that this is the first time an app was able to work with inputs received in natural, everyday language. While Siri is still in a way considered to be in a beta version, it has already demonstrated a surprising level of functionality. The importance of Siri was really well understood by many users and engineers alike, but it did much more, as it deeply surprised Apple’s competitors, chiefly Google with their Android OS.

Microsoft launches OneNote iPad app

Microsoft is venturing in one area after other with varying success. This time they want to capture another stronghold in iOS world, by releasing iPad version of their One Note app. One Note is Microsoft’s version of note taking apps for writing down ideas, notes and to do lists. With this new app you can now write all your notes and great ideas, and enrich them with images, texts and bullets. You can easily edit your to do lists and add check boxes to them.

Apple seeding iOS 5.1 beta 2, for developers only

Apple has seeded the next instalment of iOS 5.1, version beta 2. As always, at this stage it is available for testing purposes only and the access is granted only to certified Apple developers. Among other features, this version has now an option which helps iOS users to remove photos captured on your iPhon, iPad or iPod Touch from the Photo Stream.

If you take some photo which needs to be removed for any reason, it can now be easily deleted from your Photo Stream. This means that it wont be shared through the iCloud to your other devices running iOS 5.1. Still, photos captured earlier will have to be removed manually from your connected iOS 5.1 devices.

Apple releases another video add

Apple releases another video add

Holidays are just around the corner and it is a great time to get some media exposure even if you have fantastic products like Apple does. Besides, Apple is really famous by their superb add quality. So here is another great add from Cupertino, featuring Beatles. The ad is called “Covers”.

Enjoy in great music from Beatles served to you by iTunes! Some of us will remember those songs from our youth, some of you will discover some great music from the old days. All with help from Apple and iTunes of course!

iPad 3 coming soon!

Despite iPhone 4S becoming a huge success for Apple, Tim Cook and his team aren’t passively enjoying in their success. Instead they are working towards a new product which will again rise the line and expectations of tablet users. We find it amuzing that Amazon is happy with their new Kindle Fire tablet, but we are somehow sure that iPad 3 with a new Retina display will be much more tempting for tablet users around the world.

Samsung’s iPhone 4S ban requests denied in France

French court has just denied Samsung’s injunction request against Apple’s iPhone 4S on the French market. This legal battle has being waged across the world since two companies started disputes over patent issues a couple of months ago. The essence of Samsung’s legal demands were deemed too weak for the drastic measures of iPhone 4S sales ban, which was proposed to the court by legal representatives of the South Korean company. Court has ordered Samsung to pay more than €100,000 for Apple’s legal fees, which is probably much less than what Cupertino company actually spent during this process.