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It's been three years now to AT&T has been exclusively holding iPhone in US but it looks like Apple's finally going to announce Verizon iPhone. Apple is reportedly holding an event in early 2011 for Verizon iPhone launch. According to an interesting report from Business Week the announcement may not happen at CES 2011 instead, by or before Valentines Day (February 14th, 2011).


Business Week reports:

Apple’s introduction of an iPhone for use on Verizon’s network will come sometime after the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, according to a person familiar with Apple’s plans who is not authorized to discuss them publicly.

There's no further information in the report, but Verizon was rumored to launch iPhone in early 2011 back in March. Verizon iPhone may be Verizon's white iPhone 4? Stay tuned for more information.

We've been talking about that for about a week and it's finally here! Skype has updated their iOS appp to include video chatting feature. It works over Wi-Fi and 3G to another iPhone or to a Skype desktop user.


This update is meant for iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G since the iPhone 4 was launched back in June introducing FaceTime. Video chat is a great feature from Skype but not everyone has an iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G.

What's New in Version 3.0
- Make Skype to Skype video calls on WiFi and 3G*
- Call Skype desktop users (Mac OS X or Windows) and other iPhone users.
- Two-way video calls supported on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen.
- Receive only video supported on iPad and iPod touch 3rd gen, with no camera.
- Make video calls in portrait and landscape.
- Skype video calling requires iOS 4.0 or above.

You can update the app directly from your iOS device or get it from the iTunes link here. Let's see how do you like it!

Geohot's next jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch may be called Rubyra1n. The domain Rubyra1n.com is registered by the popular iPhone hacker George Hotz. That was on 27th March 2010. This jailbreak might bring untethered hacks for iOS 4.2.1 which is currently still tethered on new-generation devices.



And as noted by Redmond Pie, the whois records for both blackra1n and rubyra1n are the same while the whois for limeran is different. Geohot may has changed the records when limera1n was known to public to hide this new tool behind the scenes. What's also interesting that Geohot has registered both limera1n.com and rubyra1n.com at the same date (27th March 2010). There's no further confirmation but we'll keep you updated. Check the whois records for Geohot's sites below. 

Whois record for Rubyra1n.com.

Registrant:
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: RUBYRA1N.COM
Created on: 27-Mar-10
Expires on: 27-Mar-12
Last Updated on: 27-Mar-10
Administrative Contact:
Hotz, George geohot@gmail.com
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
2016583760
Technical Contact:
Hotz, George geohot@gmail.com
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
2016583760
Domain servers in listed order:
NS07.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS08.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Whois record for Limera1n.com.

Registrant:
(none)
123 Fake St
Land of the Lost, Idaho 11111
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: LIMERA1N.COM
Created on: 27-Mar-10
Expires on: 27-Mar-12
Last Updated on: 13-Apr-10
Administrative Contact:
Hotz, George george@landofthelost.com
(none)
123 Fake St
Land of the Lost, Idaho 11111
United States
+1.6502651210 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +1.6502651210      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Technical Contact:
Hotz, George george@landofthelost.com
(none)
123 Fake St
Land of the Lost, Idaho 11111
United States
+1.6502651210 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +1.6502651210      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM
NS2.HOSTMONSTER.COM

Whois record for Blackra1n.com.

Registrant:
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BLACKRA1N.COM
Created on: 05-Oct-09
Expires on: 05-Oct-11
Last Updated on: 06-Oct-09
Administrative Contact:
Hotz, George geohot@gmail.com
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
+1.6502651210 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +1.6502651210      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Technical Contact:
Hotz, George geohot@gmail.com
(none)
183 Boulevard
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
United States
+1.6502651210 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +1.6502651210      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM

Just a quick heads up! Redsn0w 0.9.7 beta was out yesterday to bring untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 but some of our readers has reported that usbmuxd process  is not working with them. Also Windows users were left behind and couldn't convert their devices to untethered jailbreak.


Though, the iPhone Dev Team is working hard on releasing new betas so in a new tweet today confirming that Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 will incorporates usbmuxd so you shouldn't worry anymore. In the same tweet, the iPhone Dev Team has confirmed that after finishing this task, the next version (Redsn0w 0.9.7b5) will include the Windows version.

tman15555: @redsn0w_testers when will the version that incorporates usbmuxd be realeased? I keep on getting stuck on installing bundles

redsn0w_testers: @tman15555 that version is next...and if that's successful, we should be able to expand to Windows testers after that

This indicates that we may very soon see the public release of Redsn0w 0.9.7. More updates as they come ! Stay tuned !


UPDATE 1: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 has been released to Untethered Jailbreak Without the Need of ‘usbmuxd’ Process , check full details Click Here.

According to All Things Digital, today Apple confirmed 1 million Apple TVs have been sold in three months since it's been released. Apple has put out a press release last week stating that they would reach the 1 million Apple TV units sold in a few days.

Last Tuesday Apple said it expected sales of its next generation Apple TV to top one million units before Christmas. Today the company confirmed to me that they did just that. Seems the addition of AirPlay support for wireless streaming, better iOS integration and the device’s aggressive new $99 price point have done quite a bit to spike sales of Apple’s so-called “hobby.” A million units sold within three months of the device’s launch is certainly impressive.

Icon Renamer is a new Cydia tweak that allows you to easily rename your iPhone app icons directly from Springboard. The tweak developed by Cydia developer Ryan Petrich and it's totally free.

Once installed, simply tap and hold to enter jiggle mode, then tap the icon you want to rename as shown in the screenshot below. What I like in this tweak that it doesn't install a new app in your Springboard or place an icon in the settings app.

Icon Renamer can be found in Cydia via BigBoss repository for free. Also check our Cydia tweaks gallery for more must-have and useful Cydia tweaks that enable functions Apple has missed ! That's why we do a jailbreak !

This is a very handy tweak for iPad users since the iPad can run iPhone apps in compatibility mode but when an iPhone app is blown up to 2x mode, the graphics become fuzzy. Even the app's got Retina-Display-ready graphics on iPhone, it'll still pix-elated on the iPad.


However, RetinaPad fixes this problem and it works awesome on any app that's got Retina-Display-ready graphics. You need a jailbroken device so you can access Cydia and install it. Once installed, launch your iPhone app and tap on 2x then you'll really notice that the app looks clean. Check the below screenshot, it works great on Facebook for iPhone app and most of the iPhone apps:
RetinaPad is available in Cydia Store at $2.99 via BigBoss repository. You can use Redsn0w to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on iPad. [Thanks @High_dB]