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Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 just days away

iOS jailbreakers who happen to own an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 may be going through withdrawal. After all, it’s been a while. The iPhone 4S has been locked down since its birth in October while the iPad 2 only had one brief summer fling with a jailbreak.

The dry spell, however, may be about to end. Hacker extraordinaire pod2g has announced that the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 (on devices running the A5 chip) should be available in a matter of days.

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Is the iPhone Killing the Wireless Industry?

I am almost shocked that I feel this way, but I’m starting to get a little weepy for our country’s wireless carriers. In a sense, they are the unsung heroes of our untethered telephony experience, laying out huge sums to build the latest in high-speed mobile networks — and incurring massive debt in the process.

Yes, I know, when I look at my wireless bill every month, I, too, think that these guys must be making money hand over fist. But consider this: In 2010, the wireless industry spent $24.9 billion investing in infrastructure, according to the CTIA, an industry trade organization. But only two carriers were able to reap more from their network capital expenditures than the cost for that capital, according to Bernstein Research. It’s probably no surprise that those companies are AT&T (NYS: T) and Verizon (NYS: VZ) . That leaves Sprint Nextel (NYS: S) , T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Leap (NAS: LEAP) , U.S. Cellular, and the rest wondering whether their efforts will ever get rewarded.

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