Call of Duty is a gaming phenomenon. Activision, its developers, have invested countless man hours into the creation of the next installment in the game’s franchise – Black Ops. All the COD game launches have been grand affairs. For Black Ops, Activision plans something unprecedented. Activision plans to broaden the game’s audience. For that they are planning a marketing campaign unlike any of the previous launches. At their second quarter fiscal earnings call, the company highlighted the marketing budget for Black Ops will be far larger than last year’s marketing budget. According to...

Cydia is a rich library of non-Apple-authorized apps. Because there are developers from all over the world creating these apps, there is no set standard for compatibility. Consequently end users do not know exactly what Cydia app is compatible with which iOS device and version. Thankfully there is an official Cydia apps compatibility list that you can check to see if a certain app supports your device. The list specifies if an app is fully / partially compatible with your device or if it is not compatible at all. You also get information on whether or not the app supports multitasking. Testers...

By now I am sure all my readers are aware of iPhone’s antenna / reception problems and how Apple has come with their case program as a solution. The case program will give all iPhone owners a bumper case to cover their phones; this will prevent the user’s palm’s contact with the phone’s back and avoid the bad reception problems. Motorola has taken advantage of Apple’s bad antenna design for the iPhone 4 and mocked it in its latest ad for the Droid X. “We believe a customer shouldn’t have to dress up their phone for it to work properly,” the ad reads. “The [Droid...

I’ve been hinting about an all-in-one iOS 4 jailbreak package which would be compatible on all Apple devices and firmware version of iOS 4. However, today I’ve got bigger news and that is, we may be seeing a unified jailbreak and unlock utility coming soon for iOS 4 and iPhone 4. Yes you guessed it, a single utility which can do it all! The iPhone Dev team behind the completely rewritten ultrasn0w has showed signs through their twitter updates that they might be releasing a unified package which would contain both the jailbreak and the unlock for iOS 4. Here is the actual tweet from...

Cydia is the most popular online app store found on almost all jailbroken Apple devices including the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman, popularly known as Saurik gave an interview to Make It Work in which he showed the glimpse of a fully jailbroken iPhone 4 running iOS 4. Although there are several jailbreaks and unlock utilities now available for iOS 4 running on iPhone 4, a demonstration by Saurik of a jailbroken iPhone 4 has essentially confirmed the hacked status of Apple’s latest smartphone. Check out the video below from the interview which shows Saurik showing...

The previously announced iPhone 4 free case program by Apple started today with the launch of the web URL and the iTunes app. All customers who will buy the iPhone 4 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for the free iPhone case which presumably solves the signal reception problem with the smartphone. Apple also announced that customers who have already bought the case for their iPhone 4 will be given a complete refund of what they’ve paid. The iPhone 4 case program URL provides users with the necessary information on how to get their free case. The process is pretty simple; all you have...

iOS 4 was probably the last in line of smartphone operating systems which introduced the ever-so-important multitasking feature. However, when Apple did incorporate multitasking with iOS 4, the newest version of the operating system, they claimed that had done it “the right way”. Skype, a popular VoIP and IM service now is also adding the native multitasking support into its app for the iOS and iPhone. The official statement from Skype regarding the newly released multitasking support for its iOS app is as follows: “Run Skype in the background with multitasking in iOS4. Receive...

With the news of the developer of sn0wbreeze starting to work on a new release which will be an all-in-one package for jailbreaking iOS 4.0.1 and 4.1 Beta on all versions of iPhone and iPod Touch, we’re now hinting that same may be the case with Spirit, another popular iPhone jailbreak utility. While probing through the recent tweets of the developer of Spirit, my guess is that there might be another version of Spirit in the pipeline, based on the userland exploit and will be an all-in-one jailbreak tool with the capability to jailbreak iOS 4.0.1 and 4.1 Beta on all iPhone versions (3G, 3GS,...