So long, unlocked smartphones -- we hardly knew ye.
Although it might pain some Apple fanboys, a clever new theme for jailbroken iPhones shows what would happen if the Metro design of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system landed on the iPhone.
Jailbreaking your iPhone opens the door to …
You just can’t stop those wily jailbreak hackers. Today new software has been released that will fully jailbreak almost any iOS device running the latest iOS update, including the iPhone 4S and new iPad.
Hackers from the Chronic Dev Team …
If you’ve got a jailbroken iOS 5-running iPhone or iPad, get ready to unleash some serious majesty: We’re going to show you how to enable panorama mode on your phone’s camera.
While Apple has made jailbreaking difficult with iOS 5, …
Apple has added extra security features in iOS 5 that will make it much harder for hackers to safely jailbreak their iPhones, according to the high-profile jailbreakers at Dev-Team Blog. Apple’s changes will make it harder to roll back to …
Sony has settled its lawsuit against hacker George “Geohot” Hotz for circumventing the security system of the PlayStation 3 video game console.
The lawsuit was controversial because it pitted Sony against hackers, who felt it should be more open with …
Microsoft’s fledgling mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, managed to be live for little over a month before somebody released a jailbreak tool for the OS. Three men have just done that, as Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh and Long Zheng …
If you were disappointed by the lack of apps in the new $99 Apple TV, now you have another option: The iPhone Dev team, a group known for its timely iPhone operating system hacks, has confirmed that it can jailbreak …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
The problem with Dry Erase Girl: There’s no business in hoaxes — The men who fooled the Internet …
Apple evidently wants to have a killswitch to disable “jailbroken” iPhones. That could piss off users of the popular method for running unauthorized software on an iPhone.
The company has applied for a patent that covers a variety of security …
A lot of people complained about the iPad’s closed-off software. But no one did anything about it — until now, apparently.
A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple’s restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to …
