Earlier this year Apple caused a major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Now Apple has seemingly changed its mind. In a post on the...

Apple is testing iOS 4.1 in the next-generation iPod touch, the iPad and a mysterious product. The secret product is listed as ID 20547 and “Unknown” in the new version of the operating system, which will appear this fall. There are no hints of the technical features of this device. It may be the rumored Apple TV or something completely different.

What happens when a Windows 7 tablet takes on the iPad head to head in a series of every day usage battles? This video happens. Place your bets! The Hanvon Windows 7 slate shown here is presumably one of the many Windows 7 tablets Microsoft expects by year’s end. The surprise here isn’t that the Hanvon’s a clear winner—it’s not—but more that it’s able to at least keep up with (and often beat out) the iPad...

While web site Jailbreakme.com offers a one-click jailbreak for your iOS devices via mobile Safari, it also exposes a major security vulnerability. As it turns out, jailbreaking your iDevice may provide additional security options that make jailbreaking a more secure option. Because jailbreakme is able to function through a PDF vulnerability in iOS and can be easily adapted for malicious attacks, loading a PDF through mobile Safari may pose...