Less then 24 hours ago, iphone has been jail broken one more time, with little help from Natetrue and company. Now a few of the cool features of this release is that you can do what is called pagination . However, this release came after much deliberation , the hacking community wanted to [...]

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While we usually write about big business and the economy here, I want to diverge a bit and talk about a little different topic today – the booming growth of online music downloading.
It is actually getting to be big business lately. The giants of online retailing like Amazon, Yahoo, Apple are already involved. [...]

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Waterloo, ON – based Research in Motion [RIM-T] beat all expectations on their second-quarter profits report. RIM stated earnings of $287.7-million U.S., or 50-cents a share, for the three months ended Sept. 1. That figure was up from a profit of $140.2-million, or 25 cents a share, in the same period – the previous year.
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Vonage’s share dipped to 93-cents, its lowest value since the company went public in May 2006. Vonage has been charged with the violations of three Verizon Communications Corp. patents in building its Internet phone system. The lawsuit awarded Verizon with $58-million (U.S.) in damages, plus 5.5-percent royalties on future Vonage revenues.
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Microsoft RIM… doesn’t sound too bad, eh? Well, definitely doesn’t sound too bad for Research in Motion (RIM-T) shareholders, whose shares rose today on speculation that the Canadian-maker of the BlackBerry handheld device could be bought by Microsoft Corp (MSFT-Q).
Waterloo-based RIM’s shares rose $2.10, or 2.42 percent, to $88.90 in Toronto. Meanwhile in the U.S., [...]

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A New Jersey teen, George Hotz, 17, confirmed last week Friday that he has unlocked Apple’s iPhone from the AT&T Wireless Network. This frees the most hyped cell phone for use in other networks worldwide. Calls to AT&T and Apple for comment were not immediately returned.
The iPhone unlock is still a bit complicated, and requires [...]

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Canadians appear to be switching off conventional broadcasting media (including radio and television), and now logging on to the Internet – according to a new report on broadcasting by the CRTC.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s eight annual report on the state of the industry, found that 70 percent of Canadian households subscribed to the [...]

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The owners of a rival social networking website, ConnectU, are trying to shut down Facebook on charges that Mark Zuckerber, founder of Facebook, stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.
The three founders of ConnectU, Zuckerberg’s classmates, claim that they were working together on ConnectU while Zuckerberg repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using [...]

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Waterloo, ON based Research in Motion yesterday promised further growth to its shareholders. RIM cheifs sounded very confident about the release of a new BlackBerry spartphone that can access both Wi-Fi and cellular networks. The new BlackBerry 8820 will be RIM’s first dual-mode smartphone, and its thinnest with a keyboard.
Sure the BlackBerry will have some [...]

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There has been a huge spotlight on the net’s fastest growing social utility, Facebook. 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg initially made Facebook available to people only in Harvard – where he went to college. It was then introduced to all colleges, high schools, some comanies, and now everyone. Today there are 150,000 people signing up daily, growing [...]

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