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• iOS 6 3D Maps Hacked to Run on iPhone 4
• Dropbox For iOS Updated; Brings Automatic Photo & Video Uploads, Gallery View & 3 GB Bonus Storage
• Microsoft Rumored to Unveil Its Own Windows 8 Tablet on June 18th to Compete With Apple’s iPad
• iOS 6 Feature: All New Maps App With Turn-by-Turn Navigation, 3D Flyover, Real-Time Traffic Information
• Get Ready to Grant or Deny Permission to Apps That Access Personal Data in iOS 6
• Steve Wozniak Gives Apple’s Siri The Thumbs Down
• iOS 6 Feature: Improved Notification System
• Redsn0w 0.9.13Dev1 With Support For Tethered iOS 6 Jailbreak Released

iOS 6 3D Maps Hacked to Run on iPhone 4 Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:54 AM PDT If you own an iPhone 4 and were disappointed that the cool 3D Flyover feature in the Maps app in iOS 6 won’t be available on your iOS device, then we’ve some good news for you. It looks like a Russian hacker – Anton Titkov has figured out a way to enable the feature on his iPhone 4. Continue reading →

Dropbox For iOS Updated; Brings Automatic Photo & Video Uploads, Gallery View & 3 GB Bonus Storage Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:46 AM PDT Dropbox – one of the most popular cloud-based storage services has just released a major update for their iOS app. Dropbox 1.5 includes a number of new features such as automatic uploads, a new gallery view etc and also a new way to earn bonus storage. Continue reading →

Microsoft Rumored to Unveil Its Own Windows 8 Tablet on June 18th to Compete With Apple’s iPad Posted: 14 Jun 2012 11:07 PM PDT Mashable reports that it has received a media event for a major “Microsoft Event” scheduled for June 18th in Los Angles. Microsoft hasn’t provided any other details about the event other than saying “This will be a major Microsoft announcement — you will not want to miss it”. Continue reading →

iOS 6 Feature: All New Maps App With Turn-by-Turn Navigation, 3D Flyover, Real-Time Traffic Information Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:18 PM PDT Apple finally made the switch to its in-house mapping service in iOS 6, replacing Google’s database that powered earlier versions of the Maps app. The app, and by consequence Apple’s back end, is one of the biggest new features of iOS 6. The transition from Google’s backend to Apple’s own has been long in the making, at least three years if you count since Apple’s first mapping related acquisition, Placebase. Continue reading →

Get Ready to Grant or Deny Permission to Apps That Access Personal Data in iOS 6 Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:16 PM PDT Back in February, privacy issues were raised when a blogger discovered that apps such as Path, Twitter etc upload the address book to their servers. While the developers released updates for their apps to fix the issue, Apple was under pressure from U.S Congressmen to prevent such things from happening again.  Apple promised that in the future, apps that use address book data will have to explicit take permission from users. Continue reading →

Steve Wozniak Gives Apple’s Siri The Thumbs Down Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:39 AM PDT Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had some interesting things to say about Siri – Apple’s intelligent personal assistant feature. During an interview with The Times Union, Wozniak revealed that he was a big fan of Siri before Apple purchased it, but now he’s really disappointed. Continue reading →

iOS 6 Feature: Improved Notification System Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:55 AM PDT Apple revamped the iOS Notification System in iOS 5 with features such as the Notification Center, banner notifications etc, which addressed most of the problems. So we didn’t really see the need or expect too many changes in the Notification System in iOS 6. Not surprisingly, Apple has only made some minor tweaks to the Notification system in iOS 6. Continue reading →

Redsn0w 0.9.13Dev1 With Support For Tethered iOS 6 Jailbreak Released Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:06 AM PDT That was fast! iPhone Dev team has just released Redns0w that allows developers to jailbreak their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running on iOS 6 beta. Few minutes back, we reported that iPhone Dev team will release a tethered jailbreak for iOS 6 for developers. Continue reading →

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