Earlier in the month,
had spotted a job posting, which indicated that Microsoft is planning to bringing their Xbox Live
to iOS and other mobile platforms rather than making them exclusively for Windows Phone.
According to the job posting, Microsoft was looking for developers with experience in Windows Phone, iOS, or Android development
“to bring the latest and greatest gaming and entertainment experience to mobile platforms including Windows (more…)

After iOS 5 was released alongside the iPhone 4S this past fall, Twitter accounts grew by more than 25 percent, largely because of its integrated place in Apple ‘s mobile operating system.

Now, according to tech site iMore, iOS 5.1 could bring a similar integration for Facebook.

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Screenshot by iMore)

Not that Facebook really needs more users.

But, it should come as a nice (more…)

A patent filed by Apple outlines a unique way of using facial recognition that’s energy-efficient and couples with a multi-user environment for devices like the iPad.
The patent outlines a very interesting way to implement a low-energy version of facial recognition alongside presence detection.
The problem with facial recognition is two-fold. First, analyzing images is computationally heavy work, which can hit a portable device’s battery hard. (more…)

, which brings a number of cool unlock animations to your iPhone .
UnlockFx is developed by Filippo Bigarella, who has developed popular
users to customize almost each and every aspect of iOS.
As you can see from the video below, UnlockFX is quite easy to setup and it allows users to setup simple animations such as Translate up, rotate clockwise/anti-clockwise etc and complex animations such as slide away, wiggling etc.
It also allows you (more…)

Developers of StyleApp, which was initially available as a Palm OS emulator in Cydia have changed gears and are now offering an iOS Wrapper SDK that allows developers of Palm applications to deploy their apps written for Palm OS as iOS applications for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch.
The StyleTap iOS Wrapper SDK allows you as a Palm application developer to create an iPhone (iOS) application that “wraps” a Palm application inside StyleTap Platform (more…)

called H1Siri has just been released on Cydia, which claims to bring Siri to iPhone 4 running on iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1.
that brought Siri’s Dictation feature to non-iPhone 4S devices. He however had to
as he was illegally using Nuance’s voice recognition software.
The H1Siri jailbreak app takes things a step further and essentially is a complete port of iPhone 4S’ Siri to iPhone 4. The jailbreak tweak is available via a custom repository -
http://www.iphone 3gsystem.fr/cydia/.
(more…)

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that could help in developing an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.
Hey jailbreaking friends, I’ve found a bug that can untether iOS 5. Don’t expect a release soon, but I’m gonna work hard in it.
that Apple has seeded to developers of iOS developer program. pod2g also hasn’t mentioned if the untethered jailbreak will work on
.
to jailbreak iOS 5.0 and iOS 5.0.1 betas, but they only support a tethered jailbreak. BigBoss has also developed (more…)

Over the weekend, we reported that NBC had released a new version of their iPad application, which allows users to
.
It looks like NBC was not the only one, Turner Broadcasting System – a Time Warner company has also released TNT for iPad and TBS for iPad apps that allows users to watch full episodes of TV shows on those channels. They have also updated their iPhone apps to bring full episodes of TV shows to iPhone users.
Get complete access (more…)

’s front facing camera for glasses-free 3D experience.
We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities of interaction. It does not use the accelerometers and relies only on the front camera.
As you can see from the videos above, they’ve used the front facing camera to track the exact location of the user’s (more…)

was released to developers, people have been able to find a bunch of unreleased features deep inside the
file system. It started with the revelation of the
and has now moved on to a couple of new social features.
In the earlier release, (
), there was evidence of Apple planning to include “Find My Friends” feature that would provide MobileMe users with real-time location data of their friends. Subsequently, folks at 9to5Mac have come across (more…)