IOS

2011 has been a great year for jailbreaking with some exceptional tweaks or apps being released. Three of which are highly appreciated are as listed below

From iPhones to mergers to patent wars, it has been quite the year in the world of telecommunications. Despite all the big industry news swirling around this year, the public was left with very few answers.

Niels Munksgaard, Nokia Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing and Sales, apparently said in an interview with Pocket-lint on Tuesday that young people today have had enough of the iPhone and are confused by Android phones.

Apple Inc.'s newest mobile operating system - the iOS 5 - has been available for some time now. However, the only option for users looking to jailbreak the device is a tethered jailbreak.

There is more good news for those awaiting an untethered jailbreak with pod2g announcing in his blog that it is working for Apple TV 2.

That's just just a fun rumor spawned by a concept video cirulating the Web that someone named Dakota Adney put together. The real innovation is just that -- the creative video. But no bona Apple expert under the sun thinks the Apple iPad 3 will be released such a radical design.

Apple's purchase of Anobit, an Israeli maker of Flash chips, likely means the iPhone 5 will greatly improve its memory storage capabilities.

It seems the long hard wait for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is drawing to a close. Verizon continues to hold its silence, but the phone has already surfaced in some Best Buy stores and the next stop appears to be Costco on Dec.15, according to the stores internal pricing guides.

The Chinese government has allowed the iPhone 4S to be sold in mainland China and could be in stores by mid-December in time to bring in big bucks for the Christmas holiday.

After finding the untethered jailbreak last Saturday, Pod2g posted on his blog that he is going to work on iPad 2 and iPhone 4S after working on non-A5 devices. And the hacker may not release the present jailbreak until he finds one for A5 devices.

Apple Inc is in talks to buy Israel's Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for as much as $500 million, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Raymond James has lowered its profit estimates of telecom giant AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), which is facing several regulatory roadblocks in its $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

Pod2g, recently, announced his entry in the blog sphere, and said the blog will be updated as soon as any developments take place.

Apple iPhone users awaiting a jailbreak will be pleased to learn that further information has come to light on an untethered jailbreak for the iOS 5.0.1.

It may be a little longer until a global BBC iPlayer launches in the U.S, but the app is already extending its reach in Europe and Canada as it now streams on the iPad, iPhone and iTouch.

With the buzz around the launch date of iPad 3 growing louder, one company has attempted to exploit the iPad fever by releasing a video that pits the hottest gadget of 2011 - iPad 2 - against something hotter - Mother Nature's molten lava. And no prizes for guessing who won.

Apple's Mac App Store has exceeded 100 million downloads since early January, the company announced Monday. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) hasn't said how many apps are available in its Mac App Store, but the company has more than 500,000 total iOS app in its App Store.

With Bluetooth 4.0, Apple's separate iOS devices could be instantaneously connected without a Wi-Fi connection. This could allow Apple to become a viable gaming or TV platform.

An unlock and untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4/4S iOS 5.0.1 firmware has been announced by the EasyRa1n.com team which has been called EasyRa1n 0.9.

Angry Birds was the first game released for Apple's iOS system in December 2009, and since then it has sold millions of versions. Players of the game use a slingshot to launch the round, red, wingless birds at pigs on or within different structures with the aim of destroying all on the playing field.

When Apple is trying hard to make its programs and devices hacking free, members of Chronic and iPhone Dev-teams are also leaving no stone unturned to find exploits in the devices which can give Apple users a bigger place to find amazing applications.