Google is hard at work creating a new way for you to view and share the latest goings-on in current events. Reportedly called Google Propeller, the new digital news platform is being developed for Android Honeycomb tablets as well as the iPad. It will revolutionize the way users interact with the daily news. At least that’s what Google wants to believe. A report on Allthingsd.com called it a “Flipboard killer,” referring to the social news platform that launched last year. Flipboard has been downloaded 3.5 million times and has received more than $60 million in venture capital from some of the top players in the industry. The app allows users to “flip” throug

Elgato launches the Tivizen, a mobile TV tuner that does the same thing as PCTV’s Broadway 2T – turning your iPad or iPhone into a mobile TV.  The Tivizen supports DVB-T/Freeview digital TV standard and is equipped with ARM9 RISC decoder.     The Tivizen pocket TV tuner receives live TV signal and then stream to your iPhone/iPad (using the free Tivizen app) or Windows PC/Mac wirelessly using local WiFi network. Users can watch, timeshift and even record TV shows on iPad/iPhone, Windows PC and Mac. The mobile TV tuner offers 3.5 hours of battery life using the rechargeable battery. Elgato Tivizen comes with EyeTV 3 software for Mac and THC for Windows. It is priced at

Apple Inc. is rumored to release version 4.3.2 of iOS for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch  in the next two weeks. The update is expected to include security enhancements, overall improvements, as well as a few bug fixes. Given that we cannot confirm the validity of this claim, we must take the information with a grain of salt [ via BGR ]

Here’s good news for anyone looking to purchase an iPad for the holiday season. Apple has officially dropped the pricing on refurbished iPad tablets, as seen on the online Apple Store. The move comes as more and more iPad tablets come back into Apple’s possession (whether they were previously returned, damaged, and so forth) and the company is trying to get rid of them quickly before Christmas. There’s always the thought in the back of the consumer’s head that makes them worry as to whether or not their refurb will be defective, but the good news is that we’re dealing with Apple — a company with incredibly high standards. Really, the only difference is that you’ll b

KOREAN electronics giant Samsung said recently that it would launch its iPad wannabe, the Tab, on all four major US cellphone carriers, boosting the device’s chances of success in the key US market. So far, Apple’s iPad tablet computer has had the market virtually to itself since its launch in late April, selling some three million units in 80 days. Samsung’s Tab runs on Google’s rival operating system Android, and is the first device that analysts say presents credible opposition to the iPad, which proved there was a market for the intuitive touch- screen interfaces that small tablet computers allow. Samsung did not announce pricing details for the device, which with an 18

Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, perhaps affecting sales of lower end PCs, according to a new research note from UBS Investment Research. “Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um wrote in that note, excerpted on the blog Apple Insider. “We believe that a majority of this impact is occurring on the lower end of PC sales as the iPad is priced close enough to this range that it becomes attractive to consumers looking to make purchases within this segment.” In addition, Um reportedly suggested that “consumers who purc

Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter  accounts. Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere. These features are custom-designed for the larger screen and touch capabilities of the iPad. It also caters to what the iPad was made for: media consumption rather than creation. Twitter’s Leland Rechis, a mobile UX designer, writes on the Twitter blog

Apple will broadcast its highly anticipated media event today in a live video stream, but in a decision sure to divide consumers, only owners of the latest Apple kit will be able to watch it. Commentators expect Apple CEO Steve Jobs to unveil a refreshed iPod family plus confirm whether iTunes is headed online as well as lifting the lid on TV show streaming rumours. However, not everyone will be able to watch the event live as Apple has made a divisive move to broadcast its conference using HTTP Live Streaming, which only runs on the latest Apple products, perhaps risking alienating would-be Apple customers. Viewers will need a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leop

China Unicom is providing Jailbreaked iPhone 4 and iPad 3G, Along with free cases which are provided on the purchase of every iPhone 4 and iPad 3G. Not Enough? Well they are also providing free services which include SIM Card to Micro-SIM converting and 10 most popular apps from Cydia to the buyers. According to a Chinese netizen, he saw these posters at a China Unicom store located in Dongguan. He was shocked to see that Unicom is providing the jailbreak service to their customers, and at the same time, he asked the staff for the prices of the iPhone 4. The 32GB model with no contract will be selling at $6980 yuan (about $1025 USD), while the 16GB is unknown yet. We think it’s

Apple has released a security patch to block hackers from gaining access to any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad running the latest versions of their mobile operating system. That’s the good news. The bad: Users who have jailbroken their devices, hacking them in a legal but warranty-busting move to run unauthorized apps, will lose access to the unauthorized content. Anyone who wants to jailbreak after updating will likely have a harder time of it, too, until hackers devise the next jailbreak technique. Information about the security hole surfaced last week. The flaw allows hackers to get access to information stored on Apple’s mobile devices by putting a PDF file