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French iOS hacker Pod2g has always been keen to keep his followers updated on the happenings in the world of jailbreaking. He came up with the answers of a few critical questions on the 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, which, he said, he had received either by email or Twitter.

Little by little, we are slowly putting the pieces of the iPhone 5 puzzle together. On Saturday, Hong Kong-based components supplier SW-Box claimed to have come into possession of a group of new components, including a headphone jack, ear speaker, and a Wi-Fi cable part, which are all allegedly being built for Apple's sixth-generation iPhone. What else does Apple have in store for the iPhone 5?

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 on Monday, and his true birthday present will arrive on Friday when the social networking site sells stock and begins trading on Nasdaq. But he's not the only young gun out there.

Congratulations, the good guys finally won. You and your team, with help from other institutions, have ousted CEO Scott Thompson, elected three Third Point nominees to the board, removed another handful of management nominees and effectively control the company. Now what?

New toys based on the ?Halo? franchise have given some insight as to which enemies will be included in ?Halo 4.? No information has been officially revealed, but leaked images of action figures show that a Crawler and Watcher toy are to come soon.

Shares of Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, rose nearly 3 percent in Monday trading after dissident shareholder Daniel Loeb knocked out the CEO and took control of the company.

For months, Yahoo has been in crisis. Market share fell. CEO Carol Bartz was fired. A Chinese tycoon said he?d buy the company.

Microsoft unofficially announced that Minecraft: Xbox 360 has broken all previous digital sales records, selling more digital copies in its first 24 hours available than any other title in Xbox LIVE arcade history. No official number has been disclosed, but an employee has revealed that over 400,000 copies were sold.

Bing, the third most popular search engine in America, has been drastically redesigned. Even more shocking than the site's fresh new look is the new social media integration.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, said it will go ?carbon neutral? on July 1, the start of its new fiscal year.

Shares of AOL (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, rose slightly after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and promised to pass on $1 billion in patent payments to shareholders.

The long-running ?Halo? franchise is more than just a widely-successful first person shooter; it has been a flagship title of Microsoft?s Xbox system for over a decade. And just as the gaming console has evolved since its inception, so has the action-shooter game formerly owned by Bungie Studios. The Official Xbox 360 Magazine UK (OXM) notes that Xbox Live developed alongside ?Halo 2,? and the case may be the same for ?Halo 4? and the next-generation console.

CEO of AOL Tim Armstrong set out to settle all the rumors and address the growing concerns among Patch employees and AOL investors this morning in a conference call.

Thanks to the rapid growth in the use of apps and services, the personal cloud will eclipse the personal computer (PC) as the hub of consumers' digital lives by 2014, introducing a new concept for how people store, synchronize, share and stream content.

According to recent report cited in DigiTimes, Apple is going to launch a new MacBook Air sometime around the third quarter of this year. Further, the report has suggested that the new Air would be priced by the company at a price as low as $799.

Shares of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's biggest database developer, fell despite the company?s apparent victory over Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, in a vicious patent lawsuit.

Ubisoft's upcoming historical action-adventure, open world stealth video game Assassin's Creed 3 will look to stay true to real-life icons and try portraying them as realistically as possible. Alex Hutchinson, creative director on Assassin's Creed III, has discussed how this will be one of the goals of the game.

While Samsung and HTC have already stolen a lot of the limelight with their new Android smartphones, Galaxy S3 and One X respectively, both the tech giants are not done with it and recently have come up with more offerings in the line of 4G LTE smartphones.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 with Kinect is only $99 -- if you're able to get to one of the 16 participating Microsoft Stores in the United States

Rovio, the Finnish developer of ?Angry Birds,? may be ready for an initial public offering next year, CEO Mikael Hed said.

For its sixth-generation iPhone, presumably called iPhone 5, Apple is reportedly building a device with a thinner and lighter frame, but a bigger 4-inch screen. Yet with a slew of rumored features, a recently-released patent for an incredibly intelligent multi-tiered haptics system could be the one feature to rule them all.