6 posts and columns on jailbreaking

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Sued Playstation Hacker and iPhone Unlocker Joins Facebook

in Social on June 27, 2011 at 9:38 am PT

George Hotz, the young hacker who unlocked the iPhone and jailbroke the Sony PlayStation 3, has taken a job at Facebook, reports iPhone Download Blog. Known as “GeoHot,” Hotz was sued by Sony for copyright infringement and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and settled with the PS3 maker in March.

iPhone 3G: Impossibly Thin (Just Like Your Wallet After Visiting the Apple Store)

in News on April 10, 2008 at 9:40 am PT

In the run-up to Apple’s (AAPL) Worldwide Developer’s Conference in June, the Mac faithful are sifting entrails for portents of iPhones to come. Yesterday the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak discovered in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers a reference to Infineon’s (IFX) SGOLD3H chipset–a chipset that supports 3G wireless broadband of up [...]

Here's to the Crazy Ones …

in Social on October 10, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Here’s to the Crazy Ones …

in Social on October 10, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

The People Crazy Enough to Think They Can Change the World Are the Ones Who Do. (Until We Change It Back With iPhone 1.1.2.)

in News on October 10, 2007 at 8:22 am PT

The sputtering outrage over the firmware update that disabled third-party iPhone applications and bricked iPhones uncoupled from AT&T’s network became a cry of victory yesterday when the iPhone dev community said it had found a way to again implement third-party applications on the device. According to Engadget, the iPhone Dev Team, an unofficial group of [...]