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One of the hard moments comes for the company when their international employees stop working and went on strike right ahead of the upcoming device launch. It appears that some Apple employees go on strike in Rome Apple Retail Store right on the iPhone 4S launch, where everyone is happy for being at least gotten hands on the latest cool device from Apple.

It is reported that some of Apple Rome Est store employees go on strike and protest again the company for their rights. The employees had also closed the store nationwide with their union, as well as distribute strike notice among the customers and other fellow workers. Here is the statement of the employees:

“We work for the apple, but we are the fruit,” reads the official statement prepared by the employees along with Apple and the Cub FLAICA Rome “And ‘a little, in short, the phrase that best describes the situation of workers Apple. The reasons for our protest in a proposal. For several months, we engaged in a confrontation with the company aimed at enhancing the themes that relate to wages, safety, dignity, aspects covered include also the view of our opinion of Apple workers expressed through our representatives on the organization of domestic labor . Here, after a first meeting, the company decided to close like a clam without giving us any kind of explanation, or providing answers in the time agreed that had been fixed by September. We believe that in addition to “good intentions” in ads announced the company can and should do more, by implementing measures that go in that direction. An old saying that “the walls are papered hell of good intentions,” we do not want this to happen even Apple, which is why we are here on strike, to make our demands visible and invite the company to reopen a dialogue, since it no longer responded to our requests for meeting and discussion. We apologize to customers who now will inevitably suffer the inconvenience, but we encourage you to empathize with us and working with our reasons, which are designed to create good working conditions and an even better service for you customers. “ Sorry for poor translation – Google Translation

Until now, we have not heard anything yet about the Apple’s move on this strike, but surely we will keep you updated once we get news from local sources.

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Apple has been working hard from the last couple of years and now become one of the word’s manufacturers who actively revolutionizing our way of interacting with mobile phones and the rest of other technology gadgets. Before the introduction of iPhone touch screen, there were a large number of manufacturers who produced smartphones with touch screen UI, but none of them work like Apple iPhone.

After introducing an elegant way of interacting with touch screen smartphones, Apple comes up again with the amazing Siri – an intelligent personal assistant that shocked the world with its amazing performance on the device. Apple totally changed the way of interacting with devices once again with the introduction of Siri on iPhone 4S.
However, it appears that Apple is not going to stop its mission of revolutionizing the world with its inventions. A new patent application registered last week in the database of USTPO, which suggests that Apple is moving on some new technology that allows users to control their devices without even touching them, through 3D real moving gestures. The USTPO published a patent application from Apple earlier this week entitled “real-time video Time Video Process Control Using Gestures.
It seems that Apple looking for a technology related to Xbox Kinect box, which is based on the moving gestures of the body. The process of implementing this type of technology to iOS devices may involve the front-facing camera of the device and made it to record & read the non-touch commands of the users. However, at least at this time, we can surely claim that this type of technology not going to come on the devices soon, as we are years away from this type of technology. However, we can at least enjoy the bits of Apple RD (Research and Development)

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It appears that Apple is losing its glory of the World’s top smartphone selling vendor to the Korean based company and one of the biggest rivals of the Apple, Samsung. It is reported that Samsung had beaten the Apple in smartphone sales in the past Q3 quarter. Along with it is also reported by the analyst firm that China’s handset maker ZTE also beats the Apple in the production of smartphones, and become’s the world’s No. 4 mobile phones maker.
Apple was on No.3. From last three-months, but with the announcement of Q3 earning Apple reveals that they have actually broken the hopes of an analyst and lost their glory in front of other mobile manufacturers. In the start of year, Apple beat the Nokia and become the top-selling smartphone manufacturer but with the hearing of Q3 earnings, Samsung gained the title from Apple.

According to the earning reports, during Q3 ZTE shipped more than 18.5 million cell phones, , a jump from 14 million devices during the same period in 2010, research firm Strategy Analytics announced Thursday. At the same time, Apple shipped only 17.1 million iPhones, up from 14.1 million devices in the third quarter of 2010, but interestingly down from 20.34 million from the previous quarter of the year.
Researchers point out that Apple lost its glory due to a big gap in the introduction of the new device, and also the rumors of iPhone 5 had just destroyed the sales of the third quarter of this year. On the other side, ZTE and Samsung gain a lot of popularity among customers by their complex pricing on the introduction of new Android smartphones. However, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook claimed that “One of every six dollars the tech giant earned during fiscal 2011 reportedly came from China’s sales” while talking to the press reporters

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It appears that iPhone Dev team has posted the couple of evidence regarding the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreaks on iOS 5. Earlier today they have published few screenshots of iPhone 4S running Cydia and noted that the jailbreak is in very preliminary stage, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team noted that jailbreak still requires a lot of work.

After publishing the pictures of iPhone 4S running a Cydia on iOS 5, it is reported that iPhone Dev Team also uploaded a video to their Youtube channel, demoing the iPad 2 running a Cydia on iOS 5. Similarly, to the iPhone 4S, the team also mentioned in the description that iPad 2 jailbreaks on iOS 5 is also in the preliminary stage and requires a lot of work to be done.


Currently, the iPad 2 can be only jailbreak through using the Web based jailbreak named JailbreakMe 3.0 by Comex. However, the iPad 2 jailbreak do not support the new iOS 5 firmware, and requires a complete new jailbreak for the new version.

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Since the Apple unveils its next generation of iPhone 4S earlier this month, everyone wondering when we get the jailbreak and unlock for the new device. It appears before the launch of iPhone 4S that jailbreak community has been working on the jailbreak for the newer device, and finally after two weeks of the launch. iPhone Dev Team today has shown up few pictures of the new iPhone 4S jailbreak, but noted that it’s only a preliminary jailbreak stage for the new iPhone 4S.

iPhone Dev Team has published few pictures of the iPhone 4S running Cydia and Siri, last night on their official twitter client. MuscleNerd announces that the jailbreak still needs a lot of work, and this is the very early stage of iPhone 4S jailbreak. They have publicly announced that the jailbreak requires a lot of time, since the Apple has introduced its new iPhone 4S with the A5 Processor, which seems to be different from the previous version and requires, some new, exploit in bootrom of the device to run Cydia or other tweaks on the device.
On the other hand, Chronic Dev Team also announced at the JailbreakCon – the first jailbreak event, that they have found some exploits in iOS 5 to produce untethered jailbreak for all iOS devices, including the latest iPhone 4S and iPad 2. You have to keep in mind that the jailbreak is still under construction, and as said by team “lot of work is pending.”

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With the release of iOS 5 beta 1 Apple had discontinue using the iPod term name in its iOS firmware, instead they have separated both Videos and Music app in the new iOS, many of the users liked it but still there are large number of users who didn’t like the separation of the iPod app into to apps, indirect Apple has just added a new icon into the springboard of the device.

But with this move I guess they actually want to make some difference between the iPhone and iPod Touch, as the rumors circulating around the globe that Apple going to power its iPod Touch with 3G radio, but till now, we have not seen any such device prototype from Apple. Well the main point is, if you are one of those who dislikes the separate app move by Apple, then here on FreaKGeeKs, we have a solution for you to get them back both in a single app with name of “iPod”.

You might be interested to know how to get it back, a new jailbreak tweak is launched in Cydia today with aim to bring the app back on iOS 5 jailbroken devices. Unified iPod For iOS 5 – is available in the Cydia for free of cost, you can simply download it on your device to get the iPod app back on your device back. All you have to do is to install the tweak and re-spring your device. When you done up with the mentioned steps you could get iPod app back on iOS 5 device.

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Apple has recently kicked out the couple of Apple TV firmware updates in an act to keep its users updated with new features of iOS 5, but at first they kicked out the buggy version which caused many errors on the user’s devices, but later they quickly pushed another update to the firmware finally with at least a fix for the problem. Apple TV seems to be working not perfectly on the new firmware 4.4.2, because many users had bricked their devices while updating to newer version.

While Apple was busy in fixing all of these issues on Apple TV, the team behind the most popular jailbreak tool “Seas0nPass” for Apple TV has just launched the new version of the tool to support the Apple TV jailbreaking on 4.4.2. The new Seas0nPass jailbreak currently only supports the tethered jailbreak at that time, which means you have to connect your TV set-up box to the computer on every boot of the device.
The Seas0nPass developers at Firecore note that they will continue to support the last untethered Seas0nPass jailbreak for the Apple TV 2G on iOS 4.3. However, the new Apple TV 4.4.2 firmware supports these below mentioned features from Apple:

• AirPlay Mirroring: Now with video mirroring – wirelessly stream what’s on your iPad 2 screen to your HDTV.
• Photo Stream: View photos recently taken on your iOS device and pushed to your Photo Stream in iCloud.
• Trailers: A whole new way to browse and view hundreds of the latest theatrical trailers.
• National Hockey League: Watch live games. View highlights, scores, and more.
• Wall Street Journal Live: Watch up-to-date news, business commentary, and financial analysis from leading experts.

However, on the other hand, you could get a lot of plugins on your Apple TV to make more out of from it. You can check out the list of current working plugins with the latest Apple TV 4.4.2 firmware jailbreak.

• Media Player (works)
• Couch Surfer (works)
• Last.fm (works)
• Weather (works)
• RSS Feeds (works)
• NitoTV (works)
• Overflow (works)
• Remote HD (works)

So if you are still interested in jailbreak your device, all you have to do is download the latest iOS 4.4.2 firmware for Apple TV from the official website and to download the Seas0nPass for your machine from its official FireCore website. You can also get the tutorial on how to jailbreak, the Apple TV on 4.4.2, right on the FireCore’s own website.

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Rumors of Apple HDTV now start circulating around the globe since the Steve Jobs Biography launches in the public. A large number of tech geeks purchased the book to read and found out an interesting quote by Jobs that he “found a way to crack into a TV.” We have found that couple of sources already starts claiming on the base of their industry checks that Apple is so far prototyping the Apple HDTV for testing.
The analyst believes that Apple may launch its Apple HDTV next year with complete revolutionized features, exactly similar to the iTunes and iPhone as they have already revolutionized the way of interacting with devices and the way of managing music or videos on several devices. Some of the geeks believe that Jobs meant to be an TV with the new iPhone 4S Siri, which could allow users to communicate with TV’s and to control them with their voices. Steve Jobs think that the TV product will completely change the TV.

In addition to all rumors and analyst believes. It appears today that the New York Times. Nick Bilton receives some information about the Apple TV, especially about the integration of Siri into a TV. He says in the post that Siri will replace the need of the controller, and user will navigate between content on its large screen using the voice commands. Bilton quotes anonymous sources saying that an Apple television is a “guaranteed product for Apple” because “Steve thinks the industry is totally broken,” which is echoed by passages in Steve Jobs’ biography.
Bilton also said in a note that the Cupertino Company was working on the project since 2007, the year when Apple has launched the iPhone and the Apple TV set-top box to general public. He as well noted in a post that company still needed to do a quiet work on the project before speaking out on it to be public.

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Once again, we are here with the long going patents battle between two biggest tech companies of the world. Apple and Samsung have been suing each other from last few months, and we have seen that Apple has achieved several cases against the products of Samsung and gain several injunctions against the sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab in Australia.

It appears right before the launch of iPhone 4S that Samsung is preparing to sue Apple in several different courts and may ask for the preliminary injunction for the iPhone 4S in country’s ground even before the actual launch of the device in the European Countries, where Apple has gained an injunction against its devices. However, it seems that Samsung is out of luck, because a new report claim that Judge has dismissed the Samsung request on iPhone 4S ban and said to first complete your document then knock the ground of a jury.
According to a report of an Italian news website AGI, a judge has just denied the request of Samsung for banning iPhone 4S sales in Italy. The judge asks both companies to provide more information regarding their case each other, and she will review the information later in December, and will announce its decision. The case is definitely not closed, but it sure looks good for Apple. It doesn’t surprise us because Apple has won all the legal battles with Samsung so far.

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Adobe has today launched the new service Carousel for Mac OS and iOS devices users, an online image management service which they have announced back in September. Adobe has launched an app for Mac OS and iOS devices in the App Store which allow users to sync and manage their images across their iOS devices and Mac OS running machines indirectly via iCloud, the service requires a paid account on Adobe with service activation on Adobe’s online storage for $99 a year. The storage subscription is available at launch for a discounted price of $59.99, or $5.99 a month.

Carousel also allows you to perform non-destructive image editing on your device with the new service and includes new features of fixing exposure, white balance and saturation, which save the original value of the photo. The service as well allows you to set privacy options on your icloud libraries with Adobe, and gives privileges to other public users to access them, if you have given the rights.
Adobe also announces that they want to provide a complete cross-platform solution for their users, and they have actually begun the work on Windows and Android version of the service, soon they will release them to their users, which allows them to sync the photos all over their devices. Adobe Carousel is a free download from both the App Store and the Mac App Store.

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