Apple parts ways with hacker famous for iPhone ... Apple parts ways with hacker famous for iPhone jailbreaking

Nicholas Allegra, who was hired last year after gaining fame at JailBreakMe, was let go after not responding to an e-mail offering to extend his employment.

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Apple's experiment with employing a hacker famous for jailbreaking the iPhone has ended.

Nicholas Allegra, also known as Comex, was hired at Apple after gaining fame with the JailBreakMe, a Web site that simplified the process of removing Apple-installed protections from the phone -- a practice Apple opposes. When Apple hired him as an intern in August 2011, Allegra was a high-profile member of the jailbreaking community, regularly publicizing security vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS software.

However, Apple ended the 20-year-old Brown University student's employment last week, Allegra revealed today.

"So... no point in delaying. As of last week, after about a year, I'm no longer associated with Apple," he tweeted this afternoon. "As for why? Because I forgot to reply to an email," he wrote in a follow-up tweet.

"I wasn't too happy about it, but it didn't seem like I was able to fix it," he told Forbes. "So that's what it is."The e-mail he didn't reply to was an offer to extend his employment at Apple as a remote intern, Allegra told Forbes. After not responding to the original e-mail, he learned that the offer had been rescinded.

CNET has contacted Apple for comment and will update this report when we learn more.

Hackers have proven to be popular hires at tech companies these days. Charlie Miller, famous for his hacks on the iPhone and MacBook Air, joined Twitter last month, and well-knownPlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, had a brief stint at Facebook last year.

Cadillac to offer newly unveiled XTS with an Apple iPad!

Cadillac has suitably stunned the automobile market with the XTS launch and we’ve just got wind of more in regards to the car. The new Cadillac now comes with a swank new CUE infotainment system and a lot more, and giving the conventional paper-back manual a boost, the automaker will now offer XTS buyers with an Apple iPad! The tablet will help owners understand their car better and is part of an educational initiative put into place for the same. Also, Cadillac will now have two “certified technology experts” representing each of the automaker’s 700 dealerships across the United States to help buyers better understand their sweet new rides during the time of purchase.

Apple gives most of its top execs $60M bonuses

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It's bonus season at Apple.
A flurry of new filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show Apple's top executives getting bonuses with big payouts that hinge on them staying with the company through the end of 2016.
The company on Wednesday doled out 150,000 shares each to most of its senior vice presidents, short of recently-minted SVP Eddy Cue, who received a slightly smaller 100,000-share bonus, and design guru Jonathan Ive, who is an SVP, but does not fall under the SEC's section for directors, officers, and principal stockholders. That works out to just over a $60 million payday to those who got the 150,000 shares, with Cue's cut coming out to a little more than $40 million, all based off today's closing price.
Those who got the 150,000 shares will reach 50 percent vesting come June 21, 2013, with the other 50 percent fully vesting on March 21, 2016. The filings show that 25,000 of Cue's shares vest on September 21, 2014, with the rest vesting two years later. With all of these, the bonus is contingent on the executives continuing to work at the company.
"Our executive team is incredibly talented and they are all dedicated to Apple's continued success," said Apple spokesman Steve Dowling in a statement. "These stock grants are meant to reward them down the road for their hard work in helping to keep Apple the most innovative company in the world."
Though Cue's bonus is less than the others, it's his second major bonus in the past few months. Cue was awarded 100,000 restricted stock units when he was promoted to SVP status at the beginning of September to oversee Apple's iTunes Store, iCloud, iAd, and iBookstore. Cue, who is a 22-year Apple veteran, helped create the company's first online store in 1998, and Apple's iTunes Music Store in 2003--the latter being the business that would become the foundation for the App Store and iBookstore, places where Apple sells other digital goods.
Here's a full breakdown of the bonuses by executive:
Bruce Sewell -- 150,000 shares, 50 percent vest on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Jeffrey Williams -- 150,000 shares, 50 percent on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Philip Schiller -- 150,000 shares, 50 percent on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Peter Oppenheimer --150,000 shares, 50 percent on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Robert Mansfield -- 150,000 shares, 50 percent on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Scott Forstall -- 150,000 shares, 50 percent on June 21, 2013, 100 percent on March 21, 2016
Eddy Cue -- 100,000 shares, 25 percent vest September 21, 2014, 100 percent September 21, 2016.

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iPad 3 Will Equipped With Retina Display

Rumor said iPad 3 will release by Apple on early 2012. The iPad 3 will feature an HD retina display with a 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution display, as we knew that iPad 2 only has a 1024 x 768 resolution display. The Suppliers said that Apple has placed orders for a 9.7-inch screen device.

JVC Victor The Audio System for iPad and iPhone

JVC has created new audio device for iPad and iPhone. The device comes in two versions that share almost all the same features. The UX-VJ5 has a CD player built in and the UX-VJ3 lacks that CD player.

All the other functions in between the two systems are the same. These common attributes include things like the potential to dock each the iPhone and iPad in the identical time for charging. The method will play tunes from those products and includes a FM tuner integrated. The CD player model hides the CD door powering the iPad.

The technique has dual speakers each and every with 15W of energy. Each from the solutions have audio inputs and video outputs to hook for your Television or bigger laptop or computer display. Another awesome characteristic is that the VJ5 has a USB port and may rip your CDs to MP3 and shoot them to an exterior HDD. Pricing is unfamiliar, but the gadgets will hit Japan at the finish of July or starting of August.

iPhone or iPod Touch into a Universal Remote

iPhone apps had been created and just when we believed designers had sufficient, the men over at newkinetix created yet another a plug in accessory and app that will enable your iPhone or iPod to function as a universal remote control for many remote prepared electronic gadgets or gadgets that uses infrared.

Answering to iPhone customers request to create an infrared remote manage accessory for iPhone, the Portland base company is announcing the release of the initial of its type remote manage in the 2010 International Customer Digital Show in Las Vegas.

Digitech Launched A New iPad iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard And The Nexus App

The cool device for iPad from Digitech. Once docked the iPB-10 allows guitarists making use of the accompanying Nexus app to basically drag and drop outcomes combining with bodily footswitches within the pedalboard to provide the control and fire them when required. The Nexus app delivers a choice of 87 diverse pedals, such as chorus, distortion, flanger, phasers with each other with versions of wah.

The DigiTech iPad Pedalboard enables you to hook up your instrument and amp towards the back again from the unit itself as well as the iPB-10 will stream a digital audio signal to any software that utilizes the digital audio input to the iPad.

G-Form iPad Slevee: Extreme Edge

G-Form has just introduced the start of its new iPad sleeve today, the Intense Edge. Unlike its prior cases, the Intense Edge will allow customers to function on the tablet whilst maintaining it protected at the exact same time. This is simply because it only consists of a protecting back again along with a slot for you to insert your tablet into, which safeguards its four corners.

Judging by the video exams with the Intense Edge they launched, it’s capable of letting your tablet endure launches from the slingshot onto the pavement, and turning your tablet into a Frisbee (when there is nothing much better to complete at function). The Extreme Edge is available now for $44.95 and comes in black or yellow.

Apple would release the iPad 3 in 2012?

Apple plans to release the IPAD takes 3 in 2012, with a much improved user interface technology. It ‘was the news that the iPhone will not see the production in May to almost unbearable in September? If so, be prepared. DigiTimes claims that Apple claims that the IPAD  3 “will not appear in the short term.” Open to interpretation of sound? It is not. To put it bluntly: “The current products are unlikely to appear in 2011.”

As a consolation prize, however, there are some rumors about the new specification IPAD 3. As a retinal display may be out of the picture, once more, there is speculation that Apple plans to use a “AMOLED panel or support Full HD resolution” for the tablet is coming. From the sounds of it, Apple is dedicated to providing superior image quality – which may constitute a conflict. AMOLED technology largely outside the control of Samsung, a producer who just happens to be a real competitor to Apple in the market for Tablet PC. That said, the Korean company has stopped selling Apple’s $ 7.8 billion the value of parts in the past.