Ever since Apple introduced an API in iOS to detect jailbroken iOS devices, developers have been using it to prevent users who have
. They’re typically greeted with the following error message: “
Jailbreak detected. App cannot run on a jailbroken device
” when they launch such apps.
We’ve seen the jailbreak detection in apps such as Bloomberg Anywhere, Cablevision, Cisco M-Learning, DirecTV for iPad, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Time (more…)

Few days back, MuscleNerd – the most vocal member of the
.
MuscleNerd has just posted an update on the progress on Twitter.
Here’s a tiny snippet: http://twitpic.com/7mg5hp …but we’ll be digging into the rest of it too!
iPhone 4S teardown had revealed that it comes with Qualcomm MDM6610 chipset, which is confirmed in the tiny snippet below:
The baseband bootrom (called “SecureROM” by Apple ) is the first code that runs on the baseband (more…)

Google has given some interesting codenames to their Android – mobile operating system.
For example: the latest version v4.0 is dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, while the version before that was called Honeycomb and v2.x was called Gingerbread.
While iOS versions are known by their version numbers, which is quite boring. Developer and hacker Steve Troughton-Smith has revealed that Apple internally uses codenames for iOS versions as well and here are (more…)

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An update to the gorgeous Flipboard news- and article-reading app just came out, giving iPhone users access to this previously iPad-only content viewer.

Like other new, high-profile apps (Path comes to mind), Flipboard for the iPhone makes for (more…)

Don't want to run iOS 5? Get Chronic-Dev Team's Crash Reporter software and help them jailbreak iDevices.

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Whether or not the masses actually jailbreak their iPhones, it seems as though users are willing to support the work that the jailbreak community is doing, feeding the Chronic-Dev Team with more than 10 million crash reports in a single week after the release of the Chronic-Dev (more…)

Apple filed a patent that describes how cameras can be used to complete digital “handshakes” in a number of ways, simplifying the way data can be shared between devices.
describes a newly published patent for authentication between devices in close proximity. It proposes the use of “keys” that allow each devices to perform a “handshake” with one another, thereby creating a connection. More specifically, the patent outlines a few different ways these (more…)

Few days back, Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut revealed that many Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones come bundled with software called IQRD developed by a company called Carrier IQ that secretly logs everything a user does on the mobile phone.
The creepy thing is that Eckhart found the software logging even personal information such as text messages and web searches, which has raised serious privacy concerns.
“gathering information off the (more…)

 (though it’s one way currently), not in the
– continues on Facebook. Samsung’s taking their marketing to a different level with a new series of ads that focuses on their Galaxy S II phone.
Only a week ago, Samsung
that targeted Apple fanboys. On the one hand, it may have alienated their potential audience – namely, those who were waiting in line for the iPhone . At the same time, the video became pretty widespread, with the line “dude, you’re (more…)

Few months back, ih8sn0w – developer of popular jailbreaking tool
 of the iOS running on their iPhone , iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV 2G.
that also takes a backup of SHSH blobs.
The key difference between iFaith and TinyUmbrella was that, while TinyUmbrella only allows you to take SHSH blobs of iOS that Apple is signing by contacting Apple ’s servers, iFaith dumped SHSH blobs for whatever iOS that is currently installed on your iOS device (more…)

If you’ve been in an Apple store, then you know all employees have iPod touches. But how exactly do employees use them to help customers? The
took a look at Apple ‘s retail software to find out.
Brian Chen, a blogger for New York Times, took a more personal look at the in-house retail software that Apple store employees have on their iPod Touches. Diego Aguirre, an Apple store employee in Palo Alto, California went through the process.
Apple (more…)