One of our biggest gripes with Google+ to date has been that every conversation we’re having or comment received, opening the dedicated app or viewing the actual web page is needed to respond. Replying by email was not supported — until today. A new post on the Gmail blog highlights the new reply-by-email feature, ending many months of sadness, despair and outright insanity that we’ve had to endure. It’s worth noting that you can also read and +1...

Since Apple first picked up Placebase, a mapping company, in 2009, rumors have run wild pointing to the eventual killing of Google Maps. Again in 2010, Apple scooped up another mapping company, Poly9. Finally, again in late 2011, Apple acquired mapping company (this time a 3D mapping company) C3, which (yet) again fueled speculation that Google Maps’ days on iOS were numbered. Today, 9to5Mac...

Upgrade your A5 iOS device to iOS 5.1 or 5.1.1 like a fool *raises hand*? Don’t worry. Even though pod2g’s official iOS 5.1.x jailbreak is still several weeks away, the Dev-Team has come through with a backdoor solution. The latest 0.9.11b1 version of redsn0w can now downgrade the iPad 2 (could before too), iPad 3 and iPhone 4S to previous versions of iOS. All you’ll need, of course, are the respective .ispw files and some backed up SHSH blobs. Call this...

Google and Apple may not be the biggest of friends, but that doesn’t mean Google can ignore their frenemy in Cupertino. Supporting iOS is a very important thing for Google to do, as while many people may eschew their in-house mobile platform, there is still plenty of cash to be made in online services spread across platforms. Today, the company pushed out their new 2.0 (2.0.0.5888 exactly) update for Google+ for iOS. And wow, what a change it brings. Every ounce of...

Image Source: The Verge The ongoing battle over nano-SIM designs is heating up. This week at CTIA, designs from both Nokia (and friends) as well as the Apple-led, backwards compatible version were shown off. Specifically, SIM card maker Giesecke & Devrient was waving the Apple designed nano-SIMs around giving us a good glimpse at what the near future will bring to SIM cards, and on a larger scale, mobile devices. The most surprising update to the whole story is that...