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Time Square Video Billboard Hijacked “For Real” Via iPhone

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March 24, 2011
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We recently posted an article with a hoax video that demoed hacking of a Times Square video billboard screen using an iPhone as a remote control. But now a Canadian man claims to have done it for real. Adi Isakovic, a 27-year-old entrepreneur from Toronto, to actually build hack in real that can stream live video, text messages and other content directly from his iPhone 4 onto the gigantic video screen in Times Square.

On Tuesday night, Adi managed to hack the 5,000-square-foot screen and projected images of his honeymoon and miniature French poodle from his iPhone 4. Unlike the More >

Gevey SIM Also Unlocks iPhone 4 On iOS 4.3, Baseband 04.10.01

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March 23, 2011
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We recently posted about Gevey SIM Interposer/Turbo SIM claiming to unlock your iPhone 4 on basebands such as 02.10.04 and 03.10.01, by force activating the baseband using the emergency dialer. The same source is now confirming again that Gevey SIM can also be used to unlock iPhone 4 running on iOS 4.3 Baseband 04.10.01.

In case you don’t already know, Gevey SIM for iPhone 4 basically works by forcing the activation of the baseband using the emergency dialer. You can read more about how it actually works by navigating to this link here.

So if you are tired of waiting for software-based More >

Report Claims Motorola To Halt Production Of The XOOM After June

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March 22, 2011
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Motorola is set to curtail production of its XOOM tablet beginning in April and product is set to halt after June according to an unconfirmed report. The Industry watcher, DigiTimes cites anonymous sources from within component suppliers in claiming that XOOM production in the first quarter of 2011 met forecasts of between 700,000 and 800,000 units. Motorola’s manufacturing partners are expected to ship between 400,000 and 500,000 units in March, and then April production will drop to 300,000 tablets.

May’s production will reportedly dip further and DigiTimes claims Motorola will stop More >

Gevey Claims Turbo SIM To Unlock iPhone 4 Baseband 02.10.04 And 03.10.01

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March 17, 2011
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For those of you who have been waiting long enough, there is a new unlocking method in town, which achieves a full unlock using only a Turbo SIM card. Gevey has released a SIM Interposer/Turbo SIM claiming to unlock your iPhone 4 on basebands such as 02.10.04 and 03.10.01, by force activating the baseband using the emergency dialer. A blogpost by Laforet explains that the SIM Interposer works by adding an EEPROM chip to your SIM card just like a TuboSIM. You then have to call 112, a number that can be called from any GSM phone, free of charge, with or without a SIM card on a compliant More >

Teardown Of iPad 2 Show Samsung Built A5 Chip

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March 16, 2011
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Recent reports are pointing towards iPad’s A5 chip manufactured by Samsung, according to independent tear downs and analyses of the latest generation system-on-a-chip. Even though there were rumors that Apple was going with Taiwan Semiconductor to create the A5, decapsulations of the SoC by UBM TechInsights and Chipworks clearly show telltales of a Samsung fab process.

The process analysis and lab techs at UBM TechInsights dissecting the A5 using optical die and scanning electron microscope cross-section images to look at the edge seal of the silicon die and pitch of the first metal More >

Time Square Video Billboard Hijacked Via iPhone [Video Demo]

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March 15, 2011
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The video shows a man who uses his iPhone, a video transmitter, and a repeater to hijack video billboards in Times Square. In a sense it looks like he’s hacked the video feeds going to these video billboards displayed in Times Square.

“The way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the headphone minijack of an iphone 4 and play back any video clip. you can play it through the ipod feature or through the camera roll. the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that it’s being held next to. it More >

iPhone 5 To Support Dual-SIM For Network Interoperability

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March 15, 2011
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The folks over at iDealsChina are now claiming that the iPhone 5 will accompany two SIM cards to support two phone lines. We shouldn’t take the news otherwise as the same teaser site dangled the original fourth generation iPod Nano, edge-to-edge screen design images, and iPhone 5 panel with thinner bezel before our eyes. The following is what was mentioned by the folks:

Heard from a reliable source that iPhone 5 will support 2 sim cards allowing you to use 2 phone lines. We hope to see some proof.

Since the Verizon iPhone 4 is using a Gobi chip that supports both the GSM and the CDMA More >

Apple iPad 2 Teardown By iFixit Reveals A Few Surprises

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March 13, 2011
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The folks over at iFixIt have completed their teardown of Apple’s new iPad 2. The broad consensus in response to the tablet’s disembowelment is clear. There are definitely a few surprises found beneath the hood of the iPad 2. As reported by the iFixit team in their teardown and subsequent highlight video (which you can find below), the most attention-worthy discoveries of the teardown are largely limited to the dwindling sizes of iPad parts and components.

As we all know, the iPad 2 is thinner and sleeker than its predecessor. The teardown shows that the new tablet’s glass screen is More >

Apple’s iPad 2 Benchmarked – Much Improved Over Original

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March 12, 2011
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New performance benchmarks run on the iPad 2 underscore what the new tablets have already seen for themselves: Apple wasn’t exaggerating when they claimed that the second generation iPad is twice as fast as its predecessor. Tests done using common performance tools have shown improvements across the board, with floating point operations many times faster than the original iPad. While we don’t know for sure until someone takes a saw to the chip, the results are indicating that the A5 chip is packing dual Cortex-A9s.

Apple usually never reveals what’s inside its devices and doesn’t publish More >

Intel’s Turbo Boost Problems Found In New MacBook Pros

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March 11, 2011
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With the release of the new Sandy Bridge equipped MacBook Pros, users have been expecting clockspeeds of up to 3.4 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost technology. However, in some cases, the 13” models with Core i7-2620M processors have been reported to stall out at 2.7 GHz when using Windows. The culprit may be a high core temperature, which is not being seen when the 14” is running Mac OS X or at all in the larger models. Other tests show the 13” performing as advertised. So what exactly is going on here?

Intel upgraded to Turbo Boost to take better advantage of the Sandy Bridge micro-architecture More >

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