CMOS News and updates

        As promised, Apple released iOS 5 to the public at 1.00p EST today. People upgrading their iDevices and as a result Apple’s servers are extremely slow. Here is a list of what iOS 5 brings: iOS 5 Software Update This update contains over 200 new features, including the following: Notifications Swipe

FILE – In this Jan. 24, 1984, file photo, Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer, leans on the new “Macintosh” personal computer following a shareholder’s meeting in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to

    Seas0nPass has been updated to support an un-tethered jailbreak of the new AppleTV 4.3 (revision 8F455) software. Seas0nPass is the first jailbreak to support the new 4.3 version. Yes!   What shiny things you have by updating to AppleTV iOS 4.3? iTunes TV Shows: Purchase your favorite TV shows directly from the iTunes Store,

 If you have jailbroken on 4.3.3 do not upgrade to the 4.3.4 Kev   It has now been confirmed that Apple is planning to release iOS 4.3.4 to fix a PDF Exploit that allowed JailbreakMe 3.0 to be applied. This vulnerability in Mobile Safari requires users to open a malicious PDF file before having the

    The jailbreak community routinely develops apps and other iOS enhancements that Apple either can’t or won’t come out with on their own.     Sometimes, however, Apple does get inspiration from the jailbreak community and releases new features eerily similar to those first found in the Cydia online store. UK jailbreak developer Greg

Apple opened the doors of San Francisco’s Moscone West June 6 to a horde of 5,200 iOS developers at its Worldwide Developers Conference. As usual, it had a great deal to announce and explain. Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs introduced the long-anticipated MacOS X Lion operating system that will become generally available this fall. 

    Apple’s iOS 5 is absolutely packed with new features. In the Keynote, they covered a dozen major new features, but mention that there are over 200 in all, including 1500 New APIs for developers. Before getting to them, Apple was sure to mention some impressive stats about the success of iOS, including stats

  I get the feeling that the announcements at next week’s Apple WWDC are going to represent the same kind of fundamental shift in Apple’s offering that the iPod did in 2001. I don’t have any inside info, and I make a point of not trying to pry secrets from my friends who work at

Simon Pierro, a self-made German magician has published a demo of a preview version of iOS 5. We admit it, it’s not the real iOS 5, but it’s loaded with “magical” features that makes many of us wish it was real. Simon, using his iPad running “iOS 5″, begins by literally pulling out the home

A new version of MacDefender has been found, hours after a Mac OS X security update that would supposedly fix the problem was issued. Let the cat and mouse fight begin! The new variant of MacDefender, which started making its rounds a few hours ago, works and is distributed identically to previous versions of the malware: unsuspecting

    After reports started coming in yesterday that supplies were running low on AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule products in Apple Retail Stores, speculation began immediately about what advances new versions of those might bring. Now 9to5Mac has heard from sources that Apple has been testing new Time Capsule models internally that will download iOS

  Apple made the bold move of pre-announcing its WWDC offerings this week, but we’re sure there will still be surprises aplenty. Be sure to check out our liveblog Monday for breaking news; in the meantime, here are our predictions: Will you be able to Find My Mac in Lion? Not only does it make sense

    Apple today announced it has signed the fourth major recording label for its iCloud service, officially spelling trouble for Amazon and Google’s music streaming cloud services.   The Cupertino, Calif.-based company signed Universal Music Group to its upcoming iCloud music streaming service, joining Sony, EMI and Warner Music Group, which had previously agreed

I made a post a few weeks ago about the real-time tracking going on in iPhones. I also posted a fix so it would turn off tracking. I guess Bin Laden didn’t get the memo (Grin). Kev     he news is reporting that Osama Bin Laden was located and killed by the Navy SEAL

Look out !!! 4.3.3 coming out for iOS devices. Be carefull about upgrading if your jailbroke / unlocked. Looks like they patched the jailbreak. Kev One of our Apple sources has just informed us that Apple isn’t wasting anytime fixing the infamous location tracking issue in the iPhone and other iOS devices — it’s going

As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it’s not just working on desktop web browsers, it works on Android devices too. One important place it doesn’t work though: iPhones, iPads, iPod touches

Verizon’s announcement that it will begin offering the iPhone next month has left a lot of Android users wondering whether they, too, should jump on the Apple bandwagon. If you’re musically inclined, the answer is probably yes, because apps for musicians are in much shorter supply on Android than on Apple devices. Just look at

While full details of Apple’s conference call yesterday covering the company’s blowout earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2011 are available in our coverage post, we’ve compiled a few of the more interesting items that merit some additional attention: – Record-breaking quarter: Apple set new quarterly records for Mac, iPhone, and iPad sales, as

We have already seen a tool named AirPlayer for Mac OS X which allows you to AirPlay videos from iOS devices to Macs. And now, a similar tool named AirMediaPlayer for Windows has been released which will allow you to stream videos wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to your Windows PCs. AirMediaPlayer

After releasing a jailbreak app which enables AirPlay functionality via third-party apps, Erica Sadun has now released AirPlayer for Mac OS X which mimics as Apple TV (2nd-gen) to playback videos from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to your Mac. Perfect for those of you who use 27-inch iMac or Cinema Display as your TV

The LunaTik watch designed by Minimal will house an iPod Nano. ¶A project that began with an iPod Nano and an experimental wristwatch design has quickly exploded online, receiving over $540,000 in funding through Kickstarter, a Web site that helps people find support for projects. ¶The project was created by the Chicago-based design firm Minimal, which wants

Apple’s claims about iPhone privacy and security are exaggerated, according to software engineer and security expert Nicolas Seriot, who gave a presentation this week about the iPhone at the Black Hat Conference in DC. Apple’s sandboxing technology restricts iPhone applications to operating system resources with a list of deny/allow rules at the kernel level, but

It was only a few days ago when a proof of concept hack for streaming videos via AirPlay using third party apps was shown on video. This was based on Erica Sadun’s discovery, details on which can be found here. By default, Apple’s AirPlay video streaming feature is limited to YouTube app only. But now,

On the topic of iPad 4.2 and Apple TV 4.1, the first version combination to support video streaming via AirPlay, we might as well get all the caveats out of the way first. Yes, you still can’t push streaming audio or video from your Mac to your iPad without third-party apps. No, you can’t use

Ahh, those were the days. I personally have owned and repaired for a living all of Apple/Mac products from the beginning.  Also all the other computers that were out there. I liked the Amiga the best though during that time. The Wang PC was better than the IBM PC, still running DOS Ver 2 then

Nov 3, 2010 The drawback of owning a smartphone that holds all of your apps, photos, music and more is the possibility that you may lose the device. With all of the information and content iPhones hold, it can be frustrating to lose the device in one fell swoop. There are a number of apps

Security alert: New Trojan Horse apps said to attack the Mac Posted Oct 27th 2010 1:30PM by Steven Sande Filed under: Security, Mac, OS X Some security mavens have long theorized that as the Mac becomes more popular, we’d start to see malware that would start targeting the platform. Sure enough, this morning’s crop of

Image via CrunchBase On Jan 7, 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled to salivating Apple zealots at Macworld, 2 new revolutionary products. One was some kind of new “smartphone,” and the other was AppleTV. One would change the technology world… this is about the other one. Okay, I’ll admit it – I really wanted AppleTV when it

After acquiring a small brown box during a daring heist this morning, we finally have the new Apple TV in our destructive mitts! Will this be the device that changes the direction of Apple as we know it? Tune in as we take apart the 2nd generation Apple TV. We awarded the 2nd generation Apple

3 Secret Apple TV Features Steve Jobs Hasn’t Told You About The new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs’ best sleight-of-hand trick yet. During his modest introduction of the device, Jobs called the Apple TV “one more hobby.” But a closer look at the code and the hardware powering the Apple TV reveals that there’s