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The hacker behind Dev team and iPhone unlock leader MuscleNerd tweeted few hours ago about the unlock for Apple’s new device iPhone 4S. According to his tweet, a very promising unlock for iPhone 4S is in the works. That’s only for iPhone 4S now! Not for iPhone 4. Crazy Thanksgiving weekend! Very promising 4S unlock (http://twitpic.com/7kku4t)) is in the works (Not i4, just 4S..that’s crazy part) UltraSn0w which lets you to unlock the iPhone to use on different carriers currently only supports on the basebands for iPhone 3GS - 4....

Now that everybody are excited about Apple’s new Siri feature, Microsoft have been talking a lot over the past couple of days about the not so popular feature in Windows Phone 7 known as Microsoft Tellme. The research office from Microsoft told Forbes recently that Microsoft has had similar technology on its Windows Phone platform for more than a year! According to the interview: “People are infatuated with Apple announcing it....

Ever since Apple launched Siri along with iPhone 4S, hackers and enthusiasts around the globe implemented many magical things and endless possibilities. Another hacker taking developments of others added something new allowing him to use voice commands to control his vehicle. He mentioned on his website, that he created a ruby plugin that is used by “Siri Proxy”, a proxy server for Apple’s Siri assistant. This proxy server allows for the creation of custom plugins that can intercept recognized speech and perform virtually any function....

One of the iPhone hackers (developer of course) claims that he found a way to unlock the iPhone 4S without any hardware or software changes. This unlock seems to be working (I haven’t tried yet with my AT&T iPhone 4S) only with AT&T version only. According to Chronic, this procedure will assist you to use your iPhone 4S on T-mobile’s network with T-mobile SIM card. You will need to cut the T-mobile SIM to fit into micro SIM slot of iPhone 4S....

Everybody knows how Apple make all its own hardware, operating system and other features which own the real customer experience from all over. The company even controls all its product supply all over the world in agreement to retail stores. One area they don’t have control is the mobile carriers. Now, Computer World reports that wireless industry leader John Stanton (Founder of Western Wireless, VoiceStream) claims that Steve Jobs had wanted to get into a position where the company would not depend on the likes of ATT or ATT in order to sell their iPhone....

Yesterday, Logitech hosted an Analyst and Investor Day and CEO Guerrino De Luca says that his company’s dance with Google TV was a big mistake and announced that it will stop producing the set top boxes. It is estimated that Logitech spent about $100 million on the product and has little to show it. For those who haven’t heard of it, Google TV is a software platform for set-top boxes and HDTVs based on the Android OS....

Since Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, everyone has been talking about one awesome feature: Siri. Unlike Apple’s own innovations, Siri – the digital personal assistant wasn’t made by Apple. Siri was founded in 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering) and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design). Siri was originally developed as an iOS application available in the App Store and later acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010. It is now integrated part of iOS 5 and available only on iPhone 4S (taken from Wikipedia)....

Aircel has announced a while ago that it will bring iPhone 4S to India on its Facebook page. Even though it has not confirmed the exact date and pricing details, BGR is reporting that November 24 is the likely launch date. BGR also reports that iPhone 4S will be expensive and will start from close to Rs. 40,000 for the 16GB device and over Rs. 50,000 for the 64GB model....

In a recent blog post by one of its executives, Adobe said that it would no longer be developing its popular Flash for mobile devices. Instead it would aggressively contribute towards HTML5. Here is the key point from the post - “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc....

Apple is remarkable and popular to its minute design tweaks and improvements in terms of graphics and calligraphy. Today, I noticed a weird text overlap on my iPhone 4S running iOS 5. Before you watch the video to reproduce on your devices, here is the screenshot of the bug: If you carefully observe above two screenshots, the ‘Battery Usage’ is overlapped with ‘Manage Storage’ and the iCloud description is also repeated twice in the first screenshot....