iPhone users who’ve taken the plunge and jailbroken their Apple iPhone, enabling them to install third party software, applications, and tools not offered or supported by Apple. Although jailbreaking an iPhone takes users out of Apple’s protected circle of support—and makes updating and managing an iPhone considerably more involved—there’s no doubt that there’s a thriving community of users and developer who are happily jailbreaking their iPhones to get new or augmented toys. Now Jay Freeman, the developer of the Cydia installer for jailbroken iPhones, has unveiled a Cydia App Store, which essentially creates a direct payment system whereby users can pay developers for third party iPhone Apps directly from Cydia distributions.
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Midway Ships NBA Ballers for Xbox 360, PS3
Video games and sports have always seemed like a match made in heaven, and game publisher Midway continues to mine the depths of sports gaming as the NBA playoffs enter full swing, announcing it has shipped NBA Ballers: Chosen One for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game packaging features Dwight Howard of the Orlando Heat and Al Horford of the Atlanta Hawks on the packaging, and music from artists like Jay-Z, Kanye West, Usher, Busta Rhymes, T.I., and others on the game’s instrumental score. The game is the third installment of Midway’s NBA Ballers franchise.
IDF: Intel?s View of the Future for Windows, Linux, & Apple Users
The interesting thing about the IDF (Intel’s Developer Forum) is that it exists 2 years in the future.
The reason for this is that it is focused on software and hardware developers who need long lead times to create new hardware and get them to market on top of the new technology that Intel is developing. Virtually all of Intel’s partners are here… but finding the Apple guys is a challenge, because of how secretive they are with regard to what portions of the Intel platform they will use in 2 years.
Universal Music Sues MySpace
Universal Music Group has filed a copyright infrigement lawsuit against popular social networking Web site MySpace, alleging the site illegally enables users to upload and share music videos from Universal artists.
Universal Music Group is the world’s largest record label, with a roster of artists including U2, Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, The Killers, and many more. The move comes justas MySpace announced it is testing new technology to enable copyright holders to flag infringing video on MySpace and get it taken down promptly.
SpiralFrog Signs EMI for Free Music
Plainly, some folks in the record biz think if they kiss this particular frog, it might just turn into Prince Charming. Not-yet-launched online music service SpiralFrog announced today that one of the world’s largest music distributors, EMI Music Publishing, will make its music catalog available for free, legal download via SpiralFrog’s forthcoming ad-supported music service. The news follows last week’s announcement that SpiralFrog had landed the catalog of another major label, Vivendi Universal.
Nokia Releases Phone WIth Entire MP3 Album
From the Nokia press release:
On the heels of the recently released, chart-topping Black Album by superstar rapper and hip-hop artist Jay-Z, Nokia will produce a special edition of the Nokia 3300 music phone called the Black Phone. The Black Phone comes preloaded with the entire Black Album on a Multimedia Card for MP3 playback. Also exclusive to the Black Phone are Jay-Z True Tones (ring tones that sound like real music) and wallpapers. Registered owners of the Black Phone will receive weekly text messages and monthly voice messages from Jay-Z for a limited time. The Black Phone will be available for approximately $124 (after mail-in rebates) beginning Friday, December 19 at select Sam Goody and Media Play locations nationwide.
Microsoft releaes new Xbox strategy
Set on a beach with Massive Attack spinning the decks, X03 delivered a diverse range of announcements, from two key new products (Codemasters’ exclusive Race Driver 2, Digital Illusions’ RalliSport Challenge 2) and a partnership with Unreal developer Epic Games, to a new branding initiative focusing on the social aspect of gaming and efforts to build the Xbox Live user base.
Starting with the games, Microsoft welcomed the usual procession of industry alumni on stage to demonstrate their wares. Peter Molyneux was there, playing Fable, flanked by the likes of Ubi Soft’s Yves Guillemot and Tecmo’s Tomonobu Itagaki. And of course no press conference would be complete without Jay Wilbur, who even took the time to parody himself for the flashing bulbs and well fed hacks in attendance.
Nvidia launches GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Coming on the heels of a successful launch of the GeForce FX 5900 series, top hardware editors worldwide have praised the new NVIDIA GeForceâ„¢ FX 5900 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU) as theundisputed leader in performance, image quality and compatibility for the enthusiast PC gaming market.
Based on the groundbreaking GeForce FX architecture, the award-winning GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU combines a new 256-bit memory interface with an advanced 0.13-micron process for ultra-high clock frequencies, resulting in a performance advantage over competitive products by up to a 67% margin in the latest benchmarks.

