As reported by the WSJ, Chinese Customs officials have cracked down on a group of smugglers who, apparently, have been moving iPads and iPhones across the Hong Kong/China border using an elaborate pulley system which included, wait for it... a crossbow.
The six smugglers used their crossbow to propel a cable across the Sha Tau Kok river, according to reports...
Things have taken a rather turn for the strange here at iDownloadBlog today, with news coming from the New York Post of a swanky new iPad cover being made available.
The new cover, offered for sale by Frederick James, are apparently fashioned out of the pants (that's trousers, for us Brits) of one Bernie Madoff...
Google's Chrome web-based app store received a new entry this week, and believe it or not, it does have a link to the world of iOS.
The newly released appMobi is a web app designed to help developers to code HTML 5 web apps, but it also packs a sucker punch that we didn't see coming. If after writing your HTML 5 app, you decide you'd like to submit it as a native iOS app to Apple's App Store, then appMobi will let you do that, too...
Remember when kids used to sit and play with plastic toys and run around outside? Me neither. It seems that these days, the joys of hacking are too strong a pull for our little ones.
CNET highlights a 10-year old hacker, going by the name of CyFi, who has presented an exploit to the "Kids" section of the popular hacking conference, DefCon. The exploit, which currently works on both iOS and Android, allows certain games to be prematurely advanced by simply altering the device's clock...
It's always fun to compare iPhone and Android smartphone users across a variety of different metrics, though for the life of me I can't quite work out why. Is it because we're all pre-programmed to initiate competition in just about anything, or is it because we iPhone users possess a slight air of superiority?
No matter the reason, we have a new set of statistics, this time comparing the regularity with with the two camps and those mobile ads we all know and love...
Instagram, possibly the most loved iPhone app of its generation, has reached the rather impressive figure of 150 million photos uploaded, according to the app's developers.
The app's 7 million users have reached the milestone by uploading 1.3 million images each and every day, which works out to 15 photos per second.
That's a lot of photos...
It's back to school time I'm afraid, but there is one every so slight plus to this time of year, and that's sales. We all like sales, don't we?
The guys over at Electronic Arts certainly do, and their EA 'Back to School' sale is underway, with games receiving up to 80% reductions in price.
Huge titles such as FIFA 11, Madden NFL 11 and Recklesss Racing HD are all included in the sale of iPhone and iPad games...
Inductive charging is all the rage these days. Palm was the first mobile manufacturer to bring 'magic' charging to the mainstream with its Palm Pre and Touchstone accessory.
Since then, iPhone case manufacturers have jumped to bring the same kind of functionality to Apple's smartphone, allowing the handset to be charged by placing it on a mat of sorts. No plugs, no connectors. Magic.
According to a new Apple patent discovered by Patently Apple, the Cupertino outfit may be planning to bring inductive charging to the iPhone in a more practical way, while adding the typical Apple flair to proceedings...
Infinity Blade, one of the most popular games for iOS, is currently on sale for a bargain-tastic half price of $2.99.
That means that for under $3, you could be hacking, slashing and being a general badass on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch...
In what can only be described as a bold claim, and possibly a bit of link bait, voucher site iLoveCashback.com has claimed that Apple's wunder-tablet, the iPad 2, is no longer the must-have gadget.
The new champion? RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook. It's ok, we'll wait for you to pick yourself back up off the floor.
Up? Ok, here's how they come to that rather amazing conclusion...
Today, Google updated its mobile web app to fully support Apple's Retina Display, bringing a crisper experience to those of us who use the web app in order to get full support for certain Gmail features, like labels.
The update, which is live for everyone right now, also adds an iOS feature that now seems to be synonymous with the platform: pull to refresh...
A new survey by OFCOM suggests that the iPhone is the smartphone of choice in the UK, with RIM's BlackBerry being the favorite of teenagers.
OFCOM spoke to 2073 adults and 521 teenagers in order to find out which smartphone they used, and Apple's iPhone was once again the handset to come up trumps. RIM's BlackBerry got a shot in the arm, with teenagers apparently preferring the Canadian firm's smartphones over the more touch-friendly competition...