Members of the iPhone Dev Team expect to release tools that will let most owners of recent iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad models jailbreak those devices for free. If you can’t wait a few days though, there’s a tool that will let you perform an untethered jailbreak on some iOS 5.1.1 devices today… for a fee. The developer behind the commercial security/vulnerability software package VulnDisco… Read more »

Just days after confirming that it’s possible to jailbreak and Apple device running iOS 5.1, pod2g has confirmed that the jailbreak also works on iOS 5.1.1. It’s already possible to jailbreak some devices running iOS 5.1.1, but there are two big differences in pod2g’s upcoming tool. First, it will support newer devices including the latest iPad and iPhone models. Second, it’s an untethered jailbreak, which means… Read more »

Shortly after Apple released iOS 5.1.1 users discovered they could jailbreak Apple’s latest operating system. But the current jailbreak tools only work on older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models — and it’s a tethered jailbreak which means you need to connect to a PC and run the software again every time you reboot. Now iOS hacker pod2g is demonstrating an untethered jailbreak that works on devices… Read more »

As promised the iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of the redsn0w jailbreak utility with one major new feature: You can now use redsn0w to downgrade any current iOS device to an earlier version of Apple’s operating system. There’s a new “restore” option in redsn0w 0.9.11b1 and later under the “Extras -> Even More” menu. In order for the restore function to work… Read more »

An upcoming version of redsn0w will allow users to downgrade an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from one version of iOS to an earlier version. Redsn0w is one of the most popular tools for jailbreaking iOS devices, but the utility also includes a number of other tools which let you save SHSH blobs, get out of recovery mode if your phone or tablet is stuck,… Read more »

Apple released iOS 5.1.1 today. It fixes a number of bugs in iOS 5.1, but doesn’t add any major new features. Unless you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad there’s no reason not to upgrade. But if you do have a jailbroken device, upgrading to iOS 5.1.1 will remove your jailbreak. The good news is that you can already re-jailbreak Apple’s latest mobile operating… Read more »

Apple has released a minor operating system update for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. While iOS 5.1.1 doesn’t add any major new features, it does offer a few bug fixes. The improvements include an update that sometimes prevented the new iPad from moving between 2G and 3G wireless networks, and one that sometimes prevented users from streaming video from an iOS using the Apple… Read more »

When Apple released iOS 5.1 in March, it took almost no time at all for hackers to figure out how to jailbreak older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models running the new operating system. But at the time there was no support newer devices with Apple A5 processors — and the jailbreak was tethered, which means you have to connect your device to a computer… Read more »

The Daily is a daily news publication that’s only available in digital form. And I don’t mean a website. When Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily launched last year, it was billed as the first major tablet-only news source. It was billed as the (or at least one possible) future of news. Instead of simply taking images and text from a printed paper or magazine and… Read more »

Just a few days after launching an official voice and video chat for Windows Phone, Skype has released new apps for Android and iOS. Skype 2.8 for Android is now available from the Google Play Store, while you can grab Skype 4.0 for iPhone or iPad from the App Store. The new Android app features support for video rotation on additional phones and tablets, instant… Read more »