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Mainland China and 21 other countries will finally launch sales for Apple's most advanced smartphone, the iPhone 4S, on Friday, Jan. 13. The phone will be available in black and white and will sell at the same prices as in the U.S.

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Jailbreak developer Pod2g announced on Twitter that he has made significant progress on an untethered jailbreak for A5 devices and that a release could be expected within a week.

The iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for A4 iDevices has become available with the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team having released Corona 5.0.1 and Redsn0w 0.9.10b3. In this context one question that is asked is whether these are legal or not.

The tech giant Apple will reportedly hold an event that's important but not large-scale in the Big Apple (New York) at the end of January.

Jailbreak fans has received iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for A4 iDevices as new year's gift. The iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team released Corona 5.0.1 and Redsn0w 0.9.10b3, respectively, based on the work of the French hacker pod2g.Among the jailbreakers, there are two outstanding hackers, MuscleNerd and pod2g, but pod2g is the first to release the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak. And now the hacker has also released the details on Corona.

Chronic Dev Team member pod2g has an interesting New Year gift for his fans - the French hacker has uploaded his blog with juicy details of Corona, the untethered jailbreak for non-A5 devices that are running on iOS 5.0.1, but many of his followers did not appreciate his hard work and criticized him instead for not releasing A5 jailbreak yet.

A recent rumor has surfaced on the Internet that states Apple's iTV is on track to be released by the end of 2012. Apparently Samsung has begun making chips and Sharp the displays.

So far Apple has declined to comment as per the report. But with lack of hard facts and a brand new year kicking off, the tech giant may have anything up its sleeve. However confirmations on long-running speculations will have to wait until Apple finally breaks its wall of silence.

An app that acts like a musical postcard enables users to capture and share musical moments with friends and family and to discover great songs along the way.

Apple's $99 set-top box, the Apple TV, has been coaxed into running full screen iOS apps by an enterprising hacker named Steve Troughton-Smith.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in a surprise move, has opened an account on micro-blogging Web site Twitter. The 80-year-old, however, received mixed reactions and some sharp criticism, from his now fellow micro-bloggers.

Apple Inc. has more than $81 billion of cash on its books with about one-third held in the U.S. This is because of its continuing success of products like iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac. So what will Apple do with all the cash hoard?

The developers of the Apple TV MobileX project have just released a new, longer, more in-depth video explaining a jailbroken Apple TV running iOS apps running at 720p resolution.

Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief who holds more then 400 patents, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 85, an iPod user.

The iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak, released by iPhone Dev Team (Corona 5.0.1) and Chronic Dev Team (RedSn0w 9.10b) based on the French hacker pod2g's work, has been made available on iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4-CDMA, iPad, iPod Touch 3G and iPod touch 4G. Many people have downloaded and installed the untethered jailbreak, but some of them have encountered various kinds of problems.

As 2011 counts down to its last few hours, there will be a number of people working on Apple's forthcoming mobile operating system - the company themselves, the product users and, obviously, iOS hackers.

Many users, who had already overwritten an earlier jailbreak and stepped into the puffed-up untethered jailbreak world, have been facing a number of crashes due to MobileSubstrate-based apps. To fix the issue, a third beta of Redsn0w - called Redsn0w 0.9.10b3 - has been released for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Technology companies appear likely to resume battle in 2012 on three major fronts of the patent wars: smartphone designs, operating systems and semiconductor chip sets. Despite passage of copyright reform under the America Invents Act in September, technology lawsuits persist and experienced lawyers worry that little will change.

No Doubt, Justin Bieber and The xx also have albums coming out in 2012.

The iOS 5/5.0.1 untethered jailbreak has been made available for iDevice users, but only the A4 devices owners can enjoy it. The A5 device owners have to wait for further information from Dev Team. However, the iOS 5/5.0.1 untethered jailbreak does not work perfectly. iPhone Dev Team released redsn0w 0.9.10b3 (for both Mac and Windowsusers) to fix a problem where re-running redsn0w over an existing jailbreak would cause MobileSubstrate-based apps to stop running until MS was installed again.