Weekly Wrap-up: Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1, Netflix’s Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services, Top Trends of 2010 And More…

A new iPhone and iPad jailbreak always top our list of the week’s biggest stories and this week was no different. Spoiler if you haven’t read the post yet: It’s a tethered jailbreak for iPhones, which can be a real pain (something I found out the hard way). In our coverage of other top Internet trends, Microsoft made waves in the location community when it hired the world’s leading geo-dissident. It’s almost December and that means the beginning of our year-in-review stories. This week Richard MacManus looked at the rise of e-readers and light blogging. Read on for more of this week’s top stories.

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