Apple ‘s released their yearly Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, which details the efforts they make in improving worker and factory conditions as well as environmental standards compliance. Besides major changes – like a massive increase in audits – Apple ‘s disclosed a list of suppliers that compose 97% of its expenditures.
With suppliers all over the world, Apple ‘s got a hard time making sure standards and working conditions are up to par. (more…)

Parrot is expected to launch the next generation of their popular remote control quadicopter - AR.Drone 2.0 at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012, which kicks off at Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 10th.
However, Engadget seems to have stumbled on the press release at AR Drone Flyers, which reveals that A.R.Drone 2.0 will come with HD cameras, new flight modes, better sensors and improved design.
AR.Drone was first launched at 
. It is a remote (more…)

Currently T-Mobile USA is the only major carrier in the U.S that does not offer Apple ‘s iPhone on its network.
Until now T-Mobile has always maintained that the ball is in Apple ‘s court. However, in an interview with
Ina Fried, T-Mobile USA’s CEO Philipp Humm revealed that it has not managed to get iPhone due to its unique band technology.
“The key reason we didn’t have the iPhone in the past is we are on different band than globally the (more…)

users who have been eagerly waiting for it.
He has just published another post where he has provided more details about the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 in the form of an FAQ.
How could pod2g have an untethered 4S and dev teams still haven’t released tools to achieve this at home ?
The exploit I used to inject the untethering files to the 4S relies on having a developer account, and can’t be released publicly.
It’s the same (more…)

reports that according to leaked documents that are internal communications between the Indian military, Apple , RIM and Nokia are providing backdoor access to the Indian military to monitor cellular communication.
The documents were leaked by a group of Indian hackers called The Lords of Dharmaraja.
reports that the leaked documents reveals the existence of a system known as RINOA SUR where RINOA stands for RIM, Nokia and Apple . ZDNet’s Manan (more…)

iOS hacker pod2G has provided some more details about the Corona untether that has been used by the iPhone Dev team and Chronic Dev Team in Redsn0w and Corona Untether jailbreak app for iOS 5.0.1.
pod2G explains what he was up against and how he managed to discover the userland and the kernel exploit.
Apple has fixed all previous known ways of executing unsigned binaries in iOS 5.0. Corona does it another way.
By the past, the trick security (more…)

Mobile Data Analytics firm Arieso’s newly released reports offers interesting insights into the distribution of mobile data consumption across mobile users.
Its most important revelation: The top 1 percent of mobile users account for half of the traffic generated on mobile networks and that number jumps to 90% if you take into account the top 10%.
 users.
The breakdown of the top 1 percent data consumers – 64 percent laptop, 33 percent (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…)

 discovered Apple ‘s future plans for iOS in a patent published yesterday.
The Apple patent outlines a “persistent overlay” feature, Magic Mouse and Trackpad support for the iPad, and a new IDME (“ID Me”) social networking feature.
 published by US Patent and Trademark Office outlines a lot of exciting potential features for Apple ‘s iOS, though they seem directed at the
.
First of all, we have “persistent overlay.” It’s an effort to maximize (more…)

A recent survey by research firm GfK reveals that it is crucial for companies like Apple , Google etc to gain market share for the future success of their brands as the churn rate may not be too high.
The research firm interviewed around 4,500 people in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, China, the United States and Japan for the survey.
iPhone users are the most loyal users as almost 84 percent of iPhone users said they would pick (more…)