Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty Monday when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone. Jailbreaking is hacking the phone’s OS to allow consumers to run any app on the phone they choose, including applications not authorized by Apple. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked the U.S. Copyright Office 19 months ago to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the Digital Millennium... 

REDWOOD CITY, California — Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing police investigation. The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old Brian Hogan, and began a strange scavenger hunt for evidence that a friend of Hogan’s had scattered around this Silicon Valley community.... 

Update: Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder A California judge Friday ordered the unsealing of the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Wired.com, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Time and other news outlets had sought the document’s unsealing. Under California law, search warrant records are normally made public after the search... 

California prosecutors investigating Gizmodo’s purchase of a prototype iPhone have offered a new argument for keeping details of the probe a secret: Public disclosure could compromise “the identity of an informer.” The claim, made in a court filing Thursday, is the first indication that police cultivated an inside source prior to raiding the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, whose employer paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone... 

Wired.com and other news outlets are asking a California judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to a police raid on the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who paid $5,000 for a prototype 4G iPhone. Under California law, the public has a right to see the documents that led San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford V. Cretan to approve the police search, we argue. We’ve asked for a hearing on the issue at 2 p.m. PT, Thursday.... 

People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find. “Someone came to [the finder's] house and knocked on his door,” the source told Wired.com, speaking on condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation by the... 

Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the warrant used in the raid. On Friday, officers from California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team in San Mateo, California, appeared at... 

The rising tide of mobile computing, driven by the introduction of consumer devices such as the iPhone and iPad, is crashing against the shores of many an IT shop. Most IT organizations have lived on a diet of corporate policy restrictions and liberal use of the word “No!”, unfortunately their time has come. IT can no  Read More →

AT&T has openly admitted that their data coverage sucks (here) and all but admitted defeat in the telcom data wars. although they are the sole service provider of the iPhone – the world’s most pervasive handheld data device – AT&T has decided that for them to maintain the service quality (which already blows) they will  Read More →

An Australian youth who created a worm that attacked iPhone users has been hired by a company that creates applications for the iPhone. At least one security professional expressed displeasure that the malware author has been rewarded for his hack attack. Ashley Towns, a 21-year-old student who goes by the names “Ikee” and “Ikex,” was hired this month as an iPhone application developer by the Australian firm Mogeneration...