| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's ‘budget’ iPhone expected to have same 4-inch display as iPhone 5
— Contrary to some rumors suggesting Apple's low-cost iPhone will have a larger 4.5-inch display, the company's new entry-level handset will have a 4-inch display, matching the size of the iPhone 5.
| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port
— What did the iPhone look like before it looked like an iPhone? — That's one big iPhone — This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick.
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPhone 5S planned for August, next iPads may debut as soon as April
— iMore has learned that Apple is planning the release of the iPhone 5S for this summer, currently for August. Next generation iPads, presumably the iPad 5 and potentially the iPad mini 2, may also debut as soon as this April.
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Kantar: Android back on top of US smartphone share in January with Sprint's help
— Most US smartphone market share estimates last fall saw Apple retake the lead as it rode a wave of iPhone 5 sales. While there was always a question as to how long that trend would last …
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Foxconn Says Current Hiring Freeze Due to Strong Returning Workforce, Not Waning iPhone 5 Demand
— Financial Times reported earlier today that Foxconn has enacted a hiring freeze at most of its Chinese facilities due to reduced demand for the iPhone 5.
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S each outsold the Galaxy S3 in Q4
— For the first time, Apple has the world's No. 1 and No. 2 world's bestselling smartphones — FORTUNE — Drilling a little deeper into sales data than the larger tech research firms, Strategy Analytics on Wednesday released the chart at right …
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories
— When the iPhone 5 was released in September with the new Lightning connection port, all those docks and accessories that longtime Apple customers had been collecting for years were suddenly obsolete.
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Inside Evasi0n, The Most Elaborate Jailbreak To Ever Hack Your iPhone
— Credit: iDownloadBlog, @jim_gresham, @surenix, @AR72014, and @int3rnist — In Apple's eternal cat and mouse game to control what you can and can't run on your iOS device, score another one for the mice.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
“Evasi0n” Overloads Servers As Over 270,000 People Download
The New Jailbreak For iOS 6.0/6.1 Devices, Including iPhone 5 — Jailbreaking has returned, and already servers are overloaded. Today, a group of iOS hackers styling themselves as the Evad3rs team has released a usable jailbreak for the iPhone 5 …
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility — The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop. There is still some work to be done however.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).