Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the firm that advocates personal freedom related to technologies has submitted a request to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to make iPhone Jailbreaking legal.
Public comments regarding the request are open till February 2, 2009 after which the Copyright Office will hold the hearings in California and Washington DC in spring 2009. The final ruling to the request is expected in October 2009.
EFF in the request argues that jailbreaking gives users the freedom of running applications provided by other developers not necessarily approved by the phone maker. In the argument, EFF further clarified that jailbreaking the Read More...
The iPhone 3G has made it entry to the top 50 best Christmas gifts of all time. However, there are more good news in store. According to a report in the Channel Web, the iPhone 3G will be available in unlocked on the New Year’s eve this year. The what and how of this unlocking will be made available just before the Christmas this year through the streaming of a live video.
This unlock will be installed via Cydia, hence extending the jailbreaking advantage beyond Mac. This unlocking has certain requirements though:
1. This unlock method requires you to have iPhone 3Gs Read More...
I make you break. I make again. You break again. And so on and so forth. That’s been happening between Apple and iPhone hackers (They would rather prefer to be called the iPhone dev team).
Apple’s latest software update reinforces the holy tradition of free-spirited combativeness. And this time Apple takes a different route, trying to uproot the issue at its very roots. The 10.5.6 software update for the Leopard operating system has something in its code that comes as what the Information Week describes as “a covert strike against iPhone jailbreakers”
According to the Ars Tecnica report:
The [10.5.6] update prevents your Read More...
