Recently a couple of hackers claimed that they managed to jailbreak RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, leaving RIM to clean up the issue. Research In Motion has issued a statement regarding the jailbreak, and it actually sounds reasonable. RIM’s official response to the matter is: “Research In Motion (RIM) is aware of a claim made on Twitter more »

Verizon is following in AT&T’s footsteps by tracking down people who use hacked smartphones to use Verizon’s data network to tether or access hotspots. Verizon has not made an official announcement about this, but the new data requirement has gone into effect recently according to ReadWriteWeb.

Android smartphone users have been able to enjoy Swype for quite some time. In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Swype is an alternate keyboard for Android. It allows you to merely drag your finger around the keyboard to spell out words instead of typing letters one by one. Swype must have some sort of digital black magic embedded within its code because it works very well most of the time. For the iPhone, there is only one official keyboard because that’s just how Apple rolls. However, one person has ported Swype to the iPhone. It’s currently in beta and can only be accessed with a jailbroken iPhone. Fortunately, jailbreaking an iPhone is extremely easy these days.

If you think that Apple is just going to take the recent comeback of Jailbreakme.com without doing anything, well we might be all wrong. The Associated Press ran a report confirming that Apple is currently fixing a security hole in the software of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch which was apparently brought to Apple’s more »

Right off the news that the iPad 2 can now be easily jailbroken Time Warner Cable has updated it’s iPad app to block usage on Jailbroken devices. The latest version of the TWCable TV will simply not work on jailbroken devices, prompting users to restore their iPads to factory settings. If you try to run more »

It looks like the JailbreakMe website has officially returned. The site comes back as version 3.0 and brings the easy to do jailbreak that some may remember from the early days of the iPhone. That said, JailbreakMe 3.0 will work for just about all iOS devices and is as simple as loading up Mobile Safari, more »

It’s almost comical how Apple works to jump out in front of jailbreakers with new features, only to have those new features made even better with jailbreaking. Such is the case with the new widgets baked into iOS5. The jailbreakers have made it even better and are doing so at a very rapid pace. The more »

Since the first iPhone was released there have been people that jailbreak the phone. Apple has made a point to prevent people from jailbreaking through improvements to the OS over time. It’s been a constant struggle between Apple and the hackers. Now Apple is taking action against jailbreakers through iBooks. In the latest version of more »

As we have recently seen, Windows Phone 7 devices have gotten an unlock tool. The program is called ChecronWP7 and it will allow the user to register the handset as a developer device as opposed to registering directly with Microsoft. That said, the real news here comes in the statement issued by Microsoft, it seems more »

Earlier in the week we saw the surprise release from George Hotz, aka Geohot with his jailbreaking tool called Limera1n. And sadly, at the time Limera1n was only available for Windows. Well, flash forward till this morning and this post and we can now pass on the good news that Limera1n is available for the more »