Neowin News Feed for: Jailbreaking

PokéCall transforms your iPhone's incoming call screen to resemble a Pokémon battle

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:26:01 +0000

If you are a huge Pokémon fan, you might want to take a look at this customized incoming call screen for the iPhone. The interface mimics a Pokémon battle and gives you the option to run fight or run. Read more...

iPhone source code was reportedly leaked by former Apple employee

Hamza Jawad — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:14:01 +0000

Sources have revealed that a portion of iOS source code which recently surfaced online was leaked by a former Apple intern. Apparently, the employee stole additional source code from Apple as well. Read more...

Hackers steal over 250,000 Apple accounts from jailbroken devices

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:08:01 +0000

iOS users beware! A new kind of malware called KeyRaider that targets only jailbroken devices is out in the wild and has already claimed over 250,000 Apple accounts. Read more...

Apple seeking court approval to ban Jailbreaking

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:51 +0000

Apple is seeking support from the federal government in hopes to overturn the recent decision by the courts that legalized jailbreaking. The U.S. Government Library of Congress Copyright legalized jailbreaking and unlocking of devices, allowing... Read more...

Windows Phone 7 gets the jailbreak treatment

Andrew Lyle — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:59:16 +0000

Microsoft launched their Windows Phone 7 to the market last week, and hackers have already compromised the operating system to allow unauthorized code to be run, allowing users to run applications that Microsoft would normally... Read more...

How Apple is inspired by the jailbreak community

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:37:12 +0000

With years of success behind Apple with the iPod, they knew they had to make a new product that would take the market by storm. So with the help of many incredible minds at Apple,... Read more...

U.S. government makes jailbreaking, unlocking and ripping DVDs legal

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:19:16 +0000

The U.S. Government Library of Congress Copyright Office announced today new policy changes that let owners of electronic devices break security protections within the device to allow non-authorized code and programs to be run on... Read more...

Teenagers now bond over 'Jailbreaking'

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:13:56 +0000

This piece of news takes me back to when I was a boy at school. I remember clearly that I was easily categorized as one of the 'geeks'. A title that I didn't mind having,... Read more...

Apple says jailbreaking is illegal

Brad Sams — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:54:13 +0000

Apple has for the first time gone on record to say that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch is copyright infringement. Every three years the US copyright office holds a rulemaking session with... Read more...

Apple strikes again to halt iPhone jailbreaking

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:07:03 +0000

Apple's latest update to OSX, 10.5.6, includes an impressive list of performance and bug fixes but hidden amongst the latest and greatest is that 10.5.6 disables the Pwnage tool, making you unable to jailbreak or... Read more...