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 It’s been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise. We’re referring to the fight between Apple and a coalition formed by RIM, Motorola and Nokia as each group attempts to make their own nano-SIM design the ETSI standard. . . . → Read More: RIM and Motorola modify nano-SIM proposal, hope to meet Apple halfway  There’s a trend starting to emerge of judges wanting Apple to talk settlements with others rather than duke it out in the courtroom. Just two weeks after Apple and Samsung were steered towards talking about a potential deal, a Delaware court has ordered Apple and HTC to meet on August 28th in the hopes that they could shake hands and put an end to an increasingly hectic legal battle under the eyes of a mediating judge. . . . → Read More: Apple, HTC ordered by judge to sit down, try and make nice on August 28th  If you’re pining for another way to keep tabs on your Facebook pages while out and about, you’re in luck — that is, if you live in Australia, New Zealand or Ireland. Stealthily launched yesterday for iOS, Facebook’s Page Manager app lets administrators keep an eye on page-specific notifications and Page Insight (read: number of likes, shares, views, et cetera) in addition to the normal management fare already available in Facebook’s official app. . . . → Read More: Facebook Pages Manager for iOS sees soft launch, stats junkies rejoice  The idea of a smaller iPad has been rattling around the tech rumor mill for many a month now, but the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen? That’s sacred surely? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal , apparently not. . . . → Read More: WSJ: Apple moving towards larger iPhone screens  Life, Liberty and the pursuit of free WiMAX ? . . . → Read More: FreedomPop Sleeve wants to spread ‘free’ WiMAX love in the form of a $99 iPhone case  Moving along a similar path to his previous untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0 , hacker pod2g has followed up announcements of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 and iPad 3 running iOS 5.1 with a quick demo video (embedded after the break) as evidence. The video shows a jailbroken iPad 3 that manages to stay that way even after a reboot, the key difference from the current tethered hack already available . There’s still no word on when the community at large may get a crack at the software, although tweets mention “stabilizing the payload” before taking a crack at the recently released iOS 5.1.1, and that the new Apple TV may not be able to come along for the ride . . . → Read More: iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak gets a video demo, not yet ready to meet the public  It’s deemed likely that Apple had the top-selling cellphone in Japan this past fall, but how did it do in all of 2011? Quite well, if you go by MMRI’s estimates. . . . → Read More: iPhone was Japan’s best-selling smartphone in 2011, Android more than comfy as well  If you were hoping that Facebook’s buyout of Instagram would wrap up quickly and let you directly integrate your heavily filtered photos into Timeline, you might be disappointed. Citing the ever-present “people familiar with the matter,” the FT believes the Federal Trade Commission is orchestrating a competition probe. These kinds of investigations are common for most deals over $66 million — we suspect the $1 billion Instagram pact qualifies — but could add six months to a year to Facebook’s originally planned spring closure date . . . → Read More: Rumored FTC probe could delay Facebook / Instagram deal, Toaster filter will have to wait  We don’t understand exactly what European big-hitter Telef . . . → Read More: Telefónica launches Tu Me app: brings free VoIP calling and messaging to the iPhone  The short list of TV and internet providers that support ESPN’s TV Everywhere play, WatchESPN , just grew by one with the addition of Comcast to a list that already included Time Warner, Bright House and Verizon. Part of a deal reached back in January , ESPN has managed to tie its live streaming service in with Comcast’s Xfinity TV protocols, similar to the adjustments made by HBO to open up HBO Go streaming on the Xbox 360 . . . → Read More: WatchESPN finally streams to Comcast customers, but not on Android |
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