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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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It’s finally here, the PwnageTool 2.0 to unlock and jailbreak the
iPhone 2G, jailbreak only at this stage the iPhone 3G and jailbreak the
iPod Touch – all running the shiny new iPhone OS 2.0!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The release date for the iPhone Dev Team’s “PwnageTool” inches ever
closer as some “final bugs” get fixed, bringing happiness to the
waiting crowds but enraging others who think a few days to wait is a
few days too long.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Just as is happening in the US, Aussie iPhone fans are also queuing up
in front of the Apple store to buy iPhones that have sold out from
telco stores. Still, there’s a way to jump the queue if you’ve got the
cash to spare!
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by Stephen Withers
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Security software company Intego is bragging that its VirusBarrier X5 10.5.3 is the first antivirus package that can scan the iPhone or iPod touch for malware. But is it just hype?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it
acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”,
designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor
platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and
Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Zibri claims upcoming unlocking tool for all iPhones and iPods will be
a “nice proof of concept” and “very good team work”. He explains how he
sees a “real hack” working, while defending himself against claims he
“stole” other people’s work.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The Brazilian iPhone 3G unlock uses a TurboSIM-like device to fool the
Brazilian TIM sim card into thinking its connected to the AT&T
Network. Meanwhile, the iPhone Dev Team issues a new update, while some
Australians are paying to officially carrier unlock their phones to use
Australia’s only non-iPhone carrier, 3 Mobile.
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by David M Williams
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Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the consolidation and energy saving potentials, improvements in virtualisation have hit the point where Linux could be a casualty.
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by Stan Beer
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Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Not so very long ago, in a Galaxy so close that we’re actually in it,
the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 weren’t hacked yet. Sure, there were
videos promising the unlock and jailbreak would come soon, but users
are still waiting. And while Geohot’s countdown to release the YiPhone
OS 2.0 unlock came and went with no unlock forthcoming, the world is
still waiting for someone, anyone to deliver a mighty blow to the
Galactic Apple iEmpire with a free unlock tool!
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by Stephen Withers
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Analysts are tipping Apple's iPhone and the Google-backed Android platform will revolutionise the mobile industry by year's end, giving users and developers much more freedom from carriers. Is the mobile carrier-centric era coming to an end?
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by Stan Beer
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According to tech market analyst firm Ovum, Microsoft is in serious damage control over the huge technology gulf it needs to bridge in the virtualisation space. The problem for Microsoft is that market leader VMware is so far ahead of it in its hypervisor software and associated management tools, that it could even threaten the Windows revenue.
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by Stephen Withers
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People who rushed out an bought an iPhone 3G from Vodafone even though they expect to use little or no mobile data may be regretting their decision with the arrival of a new low-end plan. But Optus remains Australia's iPhone 3G king because it understands the importance of data to iPhone users.
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by Stephen Withers
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Apple sold an impressive one million iPhone 3Gs in the three days of its opening weekend. iPhone applications are being downloaded at a remarkable rate too, hitting the 10 million mark in the same short period.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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So, the iPhone 3G sold 1 million units by Sunday US time after
launching in 21 countries, and 10 million apps via the App Store, but
iTunes activation, MobileMe and firmware update snafus left millions of
customers fuming, too.
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by Stephen Withers
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Want to roll your own ringtones for that shiny new iPhone 3G? A choice of programs aims to make the job a snap, and there's only five cents between them.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The iPhone Dev Team says the iPhone OS 2.0 software can be jailbroken
and unlocked, and have videos to prove it. But original iPhone hacker
Geohot says that while jailbreaking is easy and original iPhones with
older basebands can be unlocked, the iPhone 3G is a different story and
will take much longer. What’s going on?!
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by David M Williams
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Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
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