By Humberto Saabedra on May 4, 2011
As expected from last week’s press release from Apple, the company has begun to roll out the promised iOS updates designed to address issues stemming from the LocationGate logging scandal that caused a media frenzy and subsequently made people more aware of how far location-based services on smartphones can go before becoming legal, ethical and […]
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By Humberto Saabedra on April 27, 2011
Apple has released official PR regarding the situation designed to answer the most pressing questions in the wake of last week’s release of a public tool that was designed to interpret the database of location data found on iOS 4 desktop backups. The Q&A/FAQ also sheds light on Apple’s future plans for location data that […]
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By Humberto Saabedra on June 27, 2010
A new version of the Spirit jailbreak has been successfully tested on the iPhone 4 mere days after being officially launched, as it takes advantage of the same userland exploit found in the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3.1.3 that has yet to be properly patched by Apple. The new jailbreak was expected to be released […]
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By Humberto Saabedra on June 22, 2010
On the heels of the release of iOS4 yesterday for the iPhone 3G/3GS and second/third generation iPod Touch, the first fully working jailbreak for the new operating system has been made available. The new jailbreak is only compatible with the official release of iOS 4 and is not compatible with either the Spirit jailbreak or […]
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