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A new $30 lens extension will allow you to see the unseen with your iPhone's camera.

Granted that this works with iPhones, this will work with any smartphone that has a camera. All thanks to UC-Davis researchers, we now have a 1 millimeter ball lens that is mounted with rubber capable of being attached to any smartphone camera. The lens gives your iPhone the power of a 350X microscope. The lens is taped ...

Apple announced today the company has yet again broke the iPhone pre-order record with the iPhone 4S. In the first 24 hours Apple accumulated 1 million iPhone 4S pre-orders, besting their previous record by 400,000.

By you think we the media would know that no matter our feelings toward an Apple product, the company will continue to break previous sales records. Also, as Forrester analyst Charles ...

According to new benchmark tests performed on the iPhone 4S, the new device shows a significant increase in performance over the existing iPhone 4. Furthermore, iOS 5 shows a huge improvement in Apple’s devices as well. The test goes to show that software plays a big role in performance and Apple seems to be headed in the right direction in terms of efficiency.

If you look at the table, you’ll notice the that an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2.1 achieved a score ...

For those of us who have survived the major firmware cycle a couple of times (or even just once for that matter), you come to find that you "don't really see how much you love an application or tweak until you don't have it (and I paraphrase)." iOS 5 is no different; we are all anxiously awaiting for our favorite applications and tweaks to be updated so we can continue having beautiful and awesome iDevices. One such package that most people ...

Yesterday, ModMyi reported that a ton of tweaks/applications from the Cydia Store had been updated for iOS 5 support. Some included PreferenceLoader and Activator.

For the next few days or even weeks, it is inevitable that developers will be on task to get all their packages up to date. With iOS 5 just around the corner, it would be in their best interest to have things ready before that happens. This morning, ...

Well folks, the time has come. iOS 5 is on the verge of public release and now it's in the hands of the jailbreak developers to update and release their products for the upcoming iOS 5 users. There has been a few tweaks here and there that have been updated, however some that are more in the limelight include tweaks like PreferenceLoader, Activator, and packages of that nature.

Tonight ...

A TechCrunch report claims Apple has 1,000 engineers working on the company’s next generation of processors in efforts to lower power usage and size so that form factor no longer becomes an issue during a product's design.

Apple is notorious for adopting technologies later than others, or benefiting from early access to new processors to meet their stringent design demands. The most recent example ...

Now that the public release of iOS 5 is just around the corner, as well as the iPhone 4S launch, the jailbreak community is begging the question; when will the next untethered jailbreak come out? Ever since the beginning of the iOS 5 beta cycle, the redsn0w 0.9.x beta has been able to allow users to jailbreak iOS 5, however it has only been tethered. For the hardcore users who will jailbreak no matter what, this may not be an ...

Friday night news broke that Nuance acquired Swype—the company behind the popular Swype keyboard—for nearly $100 million. Speculation surrounding the reasoning and details of the move ran rampant. In an interview with TechCrunch Swype CEO Mike McSherry revealed some details.

The deal between Nuance—the company behind Apple’s latest voice recognition tech—and Swype cost Nuance $102.5 million split up into a $77.5 million payment up front and another ...

The iOS developer BigBoss recently released an updated version of SBSettings that is compatible with iOS 5 that I highly recommend for everyone! I personally feel that SBSettings should be on everyone’s list of must-have jailbreak apps as it makes adjusting settings on the fly extremely convenient. Furthermore, if you have enough knowledge, you can even create your own custom toggles for SBSettings as well, that can be installed and accessed by users ...

According to patent application that is surfacing, Apple seems to be trying to patent the idea of in-app purchases. Lodsys claimed all rights to in app purchases previously and Apple has been paying license fees since the company enabled the feature with iOS 3. The patent application filed by Apple is titled as “In Application Purchasing” and is much more specific than Lodsys’ patents that cover the vague and broad idea of “interacting with customers ...