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Tune in to Verizon 4G this Sunday
Verizon has officially announced that their 4G LTE networks will go live this Sunday, December 5. It will cover 110,000,000 American customers in 38 metro areas and 60 airports. Not bad for day 1 of the network. Verizon hopes to build a coast-to-coast network by 2013. On launch day, there will be a couple of USB models for sale at $100 each (after a $50 rebate and new contract). Initially, the modems will only be sold by Verizon, but they will be available elsewhere at a later date. The monthly plans are $50/month with a 5GB cap, but users can go over their limit for $10/GB. Users will also receive alerts whenever they hit 50%, 75%, 90% and 100% of their bandwidth. Users can also manually check their usage through the Verizon access manager. And as for Verizon 4G phones, we’ll have to wait for CES 2011 before they make any official announcements. The coverage map will be revealed on Sunday itself, so keep your eyes peeled. Who’s exciting about finally getting 4G LTE coverage?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.