Apple Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak Available For the last three weeks, iOS hacker pod2g has been tinkering away toward an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak and blogging about his progress. We've been keeping track as he succeeds in jailbreaking device after device, starting with a third generation iPod Touch. He's now freed almost every iOS 5-compatible device from the grips of Apple's… John Paul Titlow View comments
Art How SOPA Would Kill Art & Creativity Online If SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) passes, artists online will be at risk - especially if Big Media has anything to say about it. Under SOPA, websites can be blacklisted and removed from the Internet if they appear to be infringing on intellectual property or distributing copyrighted works. This is especially troublesome for artists whose work… Play Alicia Eler View comments
Analysis The High Price of Add-on Online Fees New rules will go into effect in a month for US airline advertising that take the emphasis off the asterisk and adds transparency to their add-on ticketing fees. Ironically, some of the low-fare airlines such as Spirit are fighting the changes, claiming freedom of speech infringement by the government. I guess the right to deceive their customers… Enterprise David Strom View comments
2011 Redux How Mobile Payments Will Evolve In the Next Several Years Mobile payment has become a mainstream tech topic in the last couple of years, mirroring the rise of smartphones and application stores. E-commerce is becoming m-commerce. The focus point of the buzz has been the evolution of near-field communications as related to smartphones. The thing is, nobody in the payments industry expects NFC to be a… Dan Rowinski View comments
2011 Redux Redux June 2011: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles Final update: Three months after ReadWriteWeb first described these plans in detail, Google announces Google Circles as part of a larger social initiative. It is as we reported it. We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today. Update: Google has now officially… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments