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• Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 14:56

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.

• Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 13:53

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.

• Apple settles patent lawsuit with SimpleAir

  By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 07:24

  SimpleAir in Texas said Thursday it had settled its patent infringement litigation against Apple, and entered into a confidential license agreement by which Apple had taken a license to its patents.

• iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

  By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

  Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

• Lenovo's tablet shipments grow in China with low-priced products

  By Michael Kan | 24 May, 2012 06:10

  PC maker Lenovo has used a basement price strategy in China to become the country's second largest tablet vendor, coming ahead of rivals offering Android-based products, according to research firm IDC.

• Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2012 05:35

  The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

• McAfee reports big spike in malware

  By Cameron Scott | 23 May, 2012 20:08

  PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly security report released Wednesday.

• Updated SDK from Soti allows businesses to remotely control Apple mobile devices

  By Fred O'Connor | 23 May, 2012 08:44

  Businesses can now remotely control enterprise mobile applications developed for Apple's mobile platform with the latest version of Soti's MobiControl Software Developer Kit for iOS, announced Tuesday.

• Judge deems Kodak digital camera patent invalid

  By James Niccolai | 22 May, 2012 10:14

  A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that a Kodak patent asserted in a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid, Kodak said on Monday.

• Apple's Cook 'top-paid US CEO in 2011'

  By AAP | 22 May, 2012 09:18

  Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $US300 million ($A305.95 million) above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey shows.

• Analysis: Microsoft - Too old and too big to survive?

  By Mark Gibbs | 22 May, 2012 03:44

  What browser do you prefer? According to w3schools.com, which tracks browser usage of people interested in Web technologies and hence more likely to try alternative tools, as of April this year, 38.3 per cent of us preferred Google's Chrome, 35.8 per cent went with Mozilla's Firefox, and 18.3 per cent were still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (Apple's Safari and Opera were trailing way behind). Over the last year IE and Firefox have seen their shares decrease and only Chrome has gained share.

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• Apple files for preliminary injunction against Galaxy Tab 10.1

  By Marc Ferranti | 20 May, 2012 04:07

  In the latest move in a complex series of patent-related cases, Apple filed a motion in a U.S. district court late Friday to ban Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the U.S.

• Italian court upholds Apple warranty fine

  By Philip Willan | 19 May, 2012 10:53

  An Italian court has upheld a €900,000 (US$1.2 million) fine imposed on Apple by Italy's competition authority for allegedly violating consumer protection laws, Italian media reported late Friday.The Regional Administrative Tribunal (TAR) of Lazio rejected Apple's appeal against the fine imposed by the Antitrust Authority last December for "unfair commercial practices that damage the consumer."The court found that Apple Italy was not fully applying a two-year guarantee that is obligatory under European law and was providing unclear information on its own additional commercial warranties, the online edition of the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.An Apple Italy spokesman was not immediately available for comment.The Antitrust fine applies to Apple Sales International, Apple Italia and Apple Retail Italia and concerns their alleged failure to inform customers of their right to a 24-month warranty from the vendor under European Union regulations and insufficiently clear information on the company's own AppleCare Protection Plan and its partial duplication of the existing legal warranties.A campaign to force Apple to modify its behavior in Italy was spearheaded by the Milan-based consumer association Altroconsumo.

• T-Mobile USA clarifies job cuts will be net 350, not 900

  By Matt Hamblen | 17 May, 2012 21:59

  T-Mobile USA clarified its latest restructuring plans and said the changes will result in a net 350 job losses, not 900 as reported earlier.