• iOS 5 Twitter Notifications Got Leaked

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    The last minute speculation and “leaked” stuff are becoming popular in every Apple event out there It’s the eve of Apple’s annual WWDC conference and it will not easily go without sort of unconfirmed tidbit gets leaked around.

    This time, TechCrunch got their hands on what seems to be a new notification system in iOS 5:

    “The last two are particularly interesting given the image above. Again, no clue if it’s actually real or not, but the idea might be right. Notifications that come down from the top bar could be how Apple ends up doing things in iOS 5. After all, this would mimic already existing functionality — when tethering, a blue strip appears along the top; when on the phone, it’s a green strip. Might notifications (or at least Twitter notifications) produce a gray strip?”

    iOS 5 is believed to have a “deep” integration with Twitter. Perhaps this leak reveals how Twitter’s notifications will be integrated with the new system.

    “But if the Weather app is to be believed, this is clearly a European version of iOS (note the 23 degrees Celsius in the icon instead of 72 degree Fahrenheit as you would see in the U.S.). Second, the Camera app icon is totally different, and looks a little odd being all-black, but who knows, maybe it’s changing. The icons are in the “correct” default order. Finally, if the talk of deep Twitter integration into iOS 5 is to be believed, it’s entirely possible that these new-style Twitter notifications could be working in iOS 5 right out of the box.”

    Another possible notification system in iOS 5 might be looking similar to MobileNotifier, a jailbreak only tweak that handles notifications pretty good. Interestingly, the developer behind the tweak, Peter Hajas, was recently hired by Apple to work there.

  • iPad 2 Jailbreak Is Waiting For An Elevat0r

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    iPad 2 is the only iDevice left with no jailbreak available yet and as the Jailbreak community seem rushed to figure out a rigid exploit, one of them, Stefan Esser a.k.a @i0n1c, a well known security guy among the jailbreak team, has recently thrown the word “Elevat0r” and began to tease a series of tweets since a month ago and apparently this is an iPad 2 jailbreak exploit. Stefan Esser has successfully found an exploit in iOS 4.3.1 which once again used in subsequent iOS 4.3.2 and iOS 4.3.3.

    To tie the loosing ends, a new website elevat0r.com has surfaced and, interestingly, it says:

    “Is an elevator arriving soon?

    This website is dedicated to all those iPad 2 that are waiting for an elevator…
    If your iPad 2 is waiting for an elevator don’t hesitate to share a photo of it with the rest of the world.”

    And for more ambiguity they put another statement at the bottom which read:

    “This website is not about an iPad 2 jailbreak, it is about photos of waiting iPad 2 only.”

    The website is full of iPad 2 images showing a real elevator and it seems Stefan is waiting for 1000 images to be submitted before he reveals the expected jailbreak. He tweeted:

    Wonder how many days it will take to get 1000 submissions for http://elevat0r.com

    Do you think that Elevat0r is the upcoming iPad 2 jailbreak/exploit?

  • iCloud Beta Login Page Leaked?

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    The folks at funkyspacemonkey claims that they’ve got their hands on supposedly the login Page for the upcoming iCloud service by Apple and directly from Apple’s internal server. Among all the rumors flourishing around, we heard the service will initially be free for a trial period then eventually $25 per year subscription. Do you think this leaked Login page is any genuine?!

    We should wait for June 6 when WWDC kicks off to figure out.

  • iCloud To Cost $25 Per Year After Free Trial Period

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    The LATimes reports that iCloud will initially be offered free but eventually costing users $25/year subscription:

    Dubbed iCloud, the service initially will be offered for a free period to people who buy music from Apple’s iTunes digital download store, allowing users to upload their music to Apple’s computers where they can then play from a Web browser or Internet-connected Apple device.

    The company plans to eventually charge a subscription fee, about $25 a year, for the service. Apple would also sell advertising around its iCloud service.

    We reported eariler that Apple has reached agreements with the four major record labels for their upcoming cloud service.

    The agreements, finalized this week, call for Apple to share 30% of any revenue from iCloud’s music service with record labels, as well as 12% with music publishers holding the songwriting rights. Apple is expected to keep the remaining 58%, said people knowledgeable with the terms.

    Are you looking forward to iCloud with $25 a year subscription?