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Maynard Um of UBS Investment Research estimated in a report yesterday that if Apple were to enter the HDTV market it would raise their market capitalization by $100 billion.

Um and UBS do not give a timeline for Apple to enter the HDTV market, but there view is "Apple is unlikely to enter the television set market without a core level of differentiation. We believe that differentiation will be its iTunes ecosystem and, ...

Apple has finally enabled the "Assistive Touch," feature to help users perform touch based gestures on the iPad.

The feature, which was present in previous builds of the iOS 5 beta, but has only now been enabled, allows users to perform gestures and button actions in one touch on the iPad. The Assistive touch menu can be called up by tapping a designated corner of the iPads screen.
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Last month, we reported on the recent rash of mid-to-high level Apple executive departures that shook things up a bit inside the hallowed high towers of Cupertino, California. As some will recall, there was the announced departure of John Herbold, the senior project manager of iCloud, a loss for the company that came just days after Apple's chief of retail operations, Ron Johnson, announced he's leaving ...

Rumors surrounding Lions release and new Macbook Airs have reached a fever pitch in the last few days. Adding to the histeria, Apple sent out a call to all developers asking them to submit their OS X Lion apps for the Mac App Store.

Thursday is the rumored launch date, and one would assume the email (posted below) sent out today is timed a little late to meet a Thursday launch, unless Apple can ...

Earlier today, it was reported that AppStore applications didn't work on iOS 5 beta 3. A recent sn0wbreeze 2.8 update supposedly did not have this issue because it had an updated kernel. MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) just tweeted out that redsn0w was updated as well to fix this sandboxing issue with AppStore applications on iOS 5 beta 3. The article that was posted earlier about jailbreaking iOS 5 beta 3 with redsn0w is now ...

iH8sn0w (@iH8sn0w) tweeted that he has updated sn0wbreeze 2.8 to support iOS 5 Beta 3.



The supported devices for sn0wbreeze 2.8b4 are:

• iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) (UNTETHERED)
• iPhone 3GS (new bootrom) (TETHERED)
• iPhone 4 (GSM) (TETHERED)
• iPhone 4 (CDMA) (TETHERED)
• iPod Touch 3G (TETHERED)
• iPod Touch 4 (TETHERED)
• iPod 1G (TETHERED)

sn0wbreeze is available for Windows users only and at the ...

After playing around on iOS 5 beta 3 while jailbroken, it has been discovered that AppStore applications do not work. They crash and refuse to open. It is an issue that has been reported by a few people, including myself. According to Clayton Braasch (@Vexenon), it is a sandboxing issue. He warns people about upgrading and jailbreaking.



Although you are able to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 3 with redsn0w, unless you're ...

MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) just posted a message on Twitter saying that the redsn0w beta version for iOS 5 can still jailbreak iOS 5 beta 3. The only requirement is that you point to the beta 1 IPSW (so when selecting the IPSW file, it must be beta 1).



To download redsn0w, use the following links:
Please remember: jailbreaking ...

Apple has started seeding iOS 5 beta 3 and 10.5 beta 3 for developer use. The following devices are supported for iOS 5 beta 3:

1. iPad 2
2. iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
3. iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)
4. iPad
5. iPhone 4 (GSM)
6. iPhone 4 (CDMA)
7. iPhone 3GS
8. iPod touch (4th generation)
9. iPod touch (3rd generation)

In order to sync iOS 5 beta 3 devices with your computer, iTunes 10.5 beta 3 has to be ...

Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was testing out a new way to charge future versions of the iPhone. An international patent application from Apple has a company called WiTricity caught in the middle of the speculation.

WiTricity, which started in 2007, has garnered a lot of attention since their inception and even demoed their technology at a TED talk in 2009. Heck, ...

According to the Washington Post antitrust regulators are investigating the Apple led consortium who outbid Google for the swath of Nortel patents is somehow.

The point of the investigation according to WP's sources is to see if the acquisition of patens by Google's direct competitors in the mobile space could lead to the death of Android. In the past week a number of stories have speculated the ...