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LOCKDOWN
In a stunning sweep and a victory for Apple any way you slice it, an unnamed party has purchased the “iPhone DevTeam” Pwnage tool demonstrated on YouTube, widely announced for release today. The team has been disbanded and the jailbreak and unlock scene will probably never be the same again.
Surely the lawyers have locked this [...]

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Our iPhone jailbreaking research has concluded. We have restored our devices back to a semi-factory fresh state of firmware 1.1.2 and no longer revel in AppTapping. The inevitable occurred: compulsively updating and installing third-party apps resulted in unfortunate instability of an unknown sort. With Mail and iPod functions quitting and crashing, the only marginally useful [...]

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Patience Required, Running 3rd Party Apps on iPhone OS X 1.1.2 possible.
Is Apple is winning the cat and mouse game against pre-SDK application development, despite best efforts on behalf of the dev community?
Our testing reveals that incremental downgrades towards 1.0.2 and then back up to 1.1.2 indicate success. Employ the TIFF exploit in 1.1.1 via [...]

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Apple’s Lawyers Slap Popular iPhone Modding Site with Domain Name Change Order
The site modmyiphone.com changed its name and domain services to modmyifone.com per the legal request of Apple counsel. This is significant only in that we’re surprised it took Apple this long to drop the hammer on the trademark infringers, especially after its fiasco with [...]

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It’s never been easier to install custom applications
You can now jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch to install third-party applications with extraordinary ease. Visit the URL pictured above with your Mobile Safari and in an instant your device’s file system will be opened and the AppTapp Installer will appear on your Springboard after a restart.
Via [...]

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