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We're just in. Verizon Wireless has just sent out invites for a special event that they are holding in New York City on Tuesday January 11, 2011.


Earlier info was sent to 9to5mac follows as:

Release date time-frame window narrowed to Feb 9-16. The vacation blackout rumors are true from Feb 1-16 however. Verizon employees don’t know sh– right now. This is Apple’s baby, not Verizon’s…

Also, the ramp-up to the iPad2 will be the 1st week of March with it being released within 30 days. Just got this info today as well.

Will we see Steve Jobs in this event? Well, let's wait and see.. Stay tuned for that ! [9to5mac]

It's just 24 hours since the Mac App Store's opened yesterday and now Apple reports that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store.


Full press release follows as:

CUPERTINO, California—January 7, 2011—Apple® today announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store℠ in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in just one step.

“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”

The Mac App Store offers apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

Mac developers set the price for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit developer.apple.com/programs/mac.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Couple of days back, Geohot has published PS3 root keys publicly on his site after the appear of fail0verflow german team. Today, Geohot has updates his site with "I made a video". Geohot tells people that jailbreaking PS 3 with Custom firmware 3.55 is working and posts a video in action as a prove.


Description as in the video:

It's 5AM, this is homebrew. No release dates as usual.

3.55 firmware
omg omg omg omg no patching lv2

shouts to fail0verflow and psl1ght

Check the below video to watch it in action:

In case you are a Twitter user and Apple fan, you should be following @ceoSteveJobs parody account. The person behind the @ceoSteveJobs Twitter account contacted TechCrunch to let them know that Apple is requesting changes to be made to his Twitter account, citing requirements of a recently-passed California bill that criminalizes certain online impersonations.


The person behind this says that he has received a vaild report claiming that the account is in violation of the Twitter parody policy. This person included parody in his Twitter describtion to prevent further reports but Twitter asked him to add something like “Fake” or “Not” to his username to be in accordance with policy.

@ceoSteveJobs currently have about 270,000 followers (huge, eh?) and it's the most followed parody account on Twitter. Most of people think he is really is Steve Jobs because they don't read it's bio. If the changes are not made, Twitter will remove the account. Why? Let the time judge !

After just a couple more weeks of work, hackers could made tremendous progress and brought the recently released Android 2.3 Gingerbread to the iPhone 3G.



iPhone 3G is the first device on which Android 2.3 has been installed successfully using the same OpeniBoot software in previous ports. In case you don't know, OpeniBoot is an open source software based on iBoot that allows jailbreakers to insert their own code such as Linux kernel into iPhone and iPod touch.

Here's a quick video demo showing Android 2.3 Gingerbread running on iPhone 3G in action:
More updates as they come ! Stay tuned ! [Twitter]

According to a recent report from BGR, Apple and Verizon are set to launch their CDMA version of iPhone 4 on February 3rd.


A source has tipped BGR that the company has blacked out employee vacation requests between February 3rd and February 6th finally setting to launch the Verizon iPhone 4.

Back in June of last year, Apple picked the dates of 24th to the 27th for its iPhone 4 weekend launch — also a Thursday through Sunday. In addition, Verizon Wireless typically launches new devices on Thursdays. While BGR has not yet confirmed that the Verizon iPhone is the device we’ll see debut on the 3rd, the timing lines up very well with previous reports; no other Apple products have been rumored to be launching in this time frame.

Stay tuned for the launch very soon !