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Windows Phone 7 copy and paste update delayed till March?
Bad news for Windows Phone 7 users who are impatient to get the copy and paste functionality on their phones. Word is going around that the NoDo (apparently “No Donuts”) update, that was supposed to bring that functionality around early February, has been delayed. The latest whispers hint that the update will only arrive in early March, with the 8th of March touted as the possible date. Of course, delays aren’t desirable, but hopefully it means that when the update rolls out, there won’t be any issues with it. Some folks claim that carriers are the cause behind the delay, as they required last-minute changes that needed Microsoft to provide new ROMs, though there isn’t any official confirmation to this. It’s been said that Microsoft will be explaining the delay at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, so it doesn’t seem like we’ll have to wait too much longer to get to the bottom of this.
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.