Gadgetory

it's Monday August second 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded with the news last week that jailbreaking your iphone is now legal a hacker from the iphone dev team has released the easiest jailbreak ever for iphones visiting jailbreakme.com brings you to a screen where you can simply slide your finger to jailbreak your iphone in the past users had to tether their phones to a computer now early reports say it works for all versions of the iphone but as with any hack this may brick your phone so be warned in other smartphone news microsoft coo kevin turner says windows phone 7 devices will ship in europe in october and then in the u.s. in november no word yet on which phones will be launching first but expect the latest reviews here on cnet.com in more 3d news a company called dxg has a 3d webcam that will set you back just six hundred dollars the handheld camera has dual vga lenses but also comes packaged with a 7-inch 800 x 480 3d screen that doesn't require glasses the pocket camcorder comes with 128 megabytes of storage supports up to 16 gigabytes of expansion has an HDMI port and 4x digital zoom bloomberg is reporting that AT&T verizon and possibly deutsche telekom are teaming up to take on Visa and MasterCard in contactless payment systems the plan is to test mobile payment systems with users smartphones now discover would handle the payments and UK's Barclays would manage user accounts no word yet on when this will actually happen though finally you may start to notice some apple like tables in your next visit to a barnes and noble store the company is testing thousand square foot boutiques that demo their nook ereader devices along with their trendy accessories the company hopes to utilize their physical stores over Amazon's Kindle e-reader those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded