The ABI study takes into account annual smartphone growth rate. 57 percent of the growth rate will go Android. 21 percent to iOS and 3 percent to Windows Phone. Apple is leading the market in the U.S.
The Evad3rs team released a new jailbreak that works even on iPhone 5. Jailbreaking has become more and more difficult over the past couple years because Apple has made numerous security improvements and less bootrom-level exploit mistakes. Jailbreak open up a world of unapproved applications, free and paid, through and alternate app store named “Cydia”. There has been a decline over the years of jailbreaking, as Apple introduced changes for a more Android-like feel. But has the decline been because more users have switched over to Android?
Apple is in negotiations to carry HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid 2013. Cable and satellite subscribers that pay for HBO will be able to view the programs on Apple TV.? HBO Go is only available to customers that pay for the service through a cable provider.
Chinese hackers have been attacking the New York Times over the last 4 months. The Times and computer security experts Mandiant tracked the intruders for weeks to study their movements. The attacks started around the time that the Times investigated relatives of Wen Jiabao that had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings. The hackers tried to cloak the source of the attacks by first penetrating computers at U.S. universities and routing the attacks through then. This matches many other attacks that have come from China. They first installed malware. This also identified the attacker from a strain that has been used in the past by China.
The new Surface Pro 64GB will only have 23 GB of usable hard drive space because the with the recovery partition, built-in apps and Windows 8. It does however support USB 3 Hard Drives and microSDXC cards to extend the memory. The 128 GB edition has 63 GB of storage space.
Apple source say that Apple is ready to release an additional 128 GB model. The new iPad will be the same as the fourth gen with more storage space. An iPad redesign is due this fall.