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Apple today announced new features and made both iPod touch and iPod nano more affordable. iPod touch will be available in new black and white models starting at just $199, including Apple’s new iOS 5 and iCloud services. The new iPod nano is available today starting at just $129 and features a redesigned user interface, [...]

  Skype has released Skype WiFi app that will enable iOS device owners to quickly find a wireless hotspot. Uniqueness of this app is that users can scan over 1 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world to access the internet and get billed with the available Skype Credit. Another advantage of using Skype WiFi is [...]

  iPhone Dev Team and comex have announced the third iteration of JailbreakMe. JailbreakMe 3.0 works like the previous versions where a user just needs to visit the website to initiate the jailbreak. The web-based tool supports a number of Apple devices, including iPad 2. The full list of supported devices along with the iOS [...]

  Apple’s office apps consisting of Keynote, Pages and Numbers are now available for users using the iPhone or the iPod touch. The iWork suite now takes advantage of the Retina display and allows users to edit, create or share documents on the go. Users can import or export documents from iWork on Mac or [...]

  Well, that is quick. Apple has released the iOS 4.3.3 update for iDevices that fixes the infamous location data issue. The update as reported earlier, will help to reduce the size of the location cache, will no longer back up location data to iTunes and delete the cache when Location Services is turned off. [...]

  The iPhone-Dev team has released a newer version of redsn0w that supports untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.3.2. Untethered jailbreak means a user wouldn’t lose the jailbreak even after a restart of the device. The jailbreak will work with all iOS devices supporting 4.3.2 including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G / 4G and [...]

  The images you’re looking at are allegedly of the upcoming iPod touch. The veracity of the images remains an obvious question but the person who sent these images to Macrumor claims this device is indeed the 5th generation iPod touch. The device is marked at DVT-1 and sports a capacitive home button and 128GB [...]

  Apple also announced the newer version of iOS that will be pre-installed in the new iPad 2. The iOS 4.3 will come with many features that will improve the overall experience of users with iOS devices. Few features and improvements include Safari browser is claimed to be more faster due to the integration of [...]

  Chronic-Dev team has released Greenpois0n tool that will allow users to jailbreak their iOS 4.2.1 running devices. This jailbreak solution is an untethered one, which means the jailbreak will still be active even after a user restarts his iDevice. However, users planning to unlock the device are warned to stay away as you can [...]

  Continuing with its developer releases, Apple has seeded the third beta of iOS 4.3 to developers. We’re yet to see the full change log but the new build — 8F5166B now allows users to cancel and delete downloading apps. Although a small feature, this will prove handy to many as the only way to [...]

  Here’s a little year-end present from Skype to iOS users. They’ve released a new version of Skype that will allow iOS users initiate video calls over Wi-Fi or 3G. The iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen supports apps’ full functionality whereas the iPod touch 3rd gen and iPad will be able [...]

  Apple has announced that iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available for download. iOS 4.2 claims to bring over 100 new features with iPad being the major beneficiary gaining Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay, AirPrint and improved enterprise support. While most features are available on iPhone and iPod [...]

  Sprint has launched a unique case for iPod touch that not only protects the iPod but also allows users to surf the internet using Sprint’s 3G connection. The ZTE Peel that will go on sale from November 14 is a MiFi-like device that slides nicely on second and third-gen iPod touch devices and takes [...]

  It’s no secret that iPhone, iPod touch and an iPad cannot play Flash videos and instead relies on HTML5 to show videos. However, Skyfire with its Skyfire 2.0 browser has found a way to play Flash-enabled videos. Skyfire for iOS transcodes Flash videos to HTML5 on-the-fly, thus fulfilling user demand to view Flash videos [...]

  While Apple is busy revealing new Mac products, the iPhone Dev team has just released PwnageTool 4.1 meant for Mac OS X. The new thing with the tool is that it adds jailbreaking support for Apple TV 2G. Users can now jailbreak Apple TV in addition to iPad, iPhone 3G/3GS/4 and iPod touch 3G/4G. [...]