Apple

The WP7 arrival is still a fair distance away and that anxiety is motivating our beloved hackers to toy with their favorite devices and make them run on Microsoft Windows Phone 7. The HTC HD2 was first and then came the HTC Diamond hack, now (finally) hacker Woocash-kun has managed to breach the iPhone OS and run the Windows Phone 7 theme on it.

We are not sure how much Apple or Microsoft will appreciate the effort, but for us, the WP7 Theme on the iPhone is pleasing and more so because it is functional as well.

A new report profiling the troubles AT&T has faced with millions of bandwidth hungry iPhone users revealed Tuesday that Apple has modified its handset to make it less taxing on its wireless partner's network.

The upcoming 4.0 reference release of Apple's iPhone OS will deliver new support for running multiple concurrent third party apps, and allow users to switch between them using a windows management mechanism similar to one made popular on the company's Mac OS X operating system.

Apple has updated its free jukebox software for Mac and Windows late afternoon, just in time for the official iPad launch this Saturday. The new version has brought a rumored support for e-books and iPad syncing.

Apple says iTunes 9.1 lets you organize and sync books downloaded from the iBooks app on the iPad or manually added to your iTunes library. Like with the iPhone, iPad owners will need to connect their device to desktop iTunes via a USB cable in order to transfer e-book purchases to their iTunes libraries.

For many years now, I've written articles detailing the changes in each minor OS X update that's released, such as the now-available Mac OS X 10.6.3. In the beginning, writing these articles was both interesting and worthwhile, as Apple rarely went into great detail about what was in a given update.

In addition to a new iPhone model to be introduced this summer, Apple is also working on a CDMA-capable version that could run on the Verizon network in the U.S., sources have told The Wall Street Journal.

Apple today released one of its biggest Mac OS X security updates in recent memory, covering a whopping 88 documented vulnerabilities.

The Mac OS X v10.6.3 update, which is considered “critical,” covers flaws that could lead to remote code execution, information disclosure and denial-of-service attacks.

As many of you have noticed, the new shsh files contain a new key named APTicket. I still need to do a more thorough investigation of this key but my gut tells me that it is an indication that Apple intends to try to stop us from bypassing their TSS server for local restores.

My guess is that in future versions of iTunes, Apple will probably handle the TSS request/response and later this year implement the code to process the response in the actual bootrom of the device. Here's what I mean:

PadGadget did some digging in the iTunes database last night and it looks like Apple has already approved and listed several iPad apps in the App Store. You won’t find any of these iPad titles using your standard iTunes browser, you need to use Apple’s more recent web interface to find the new titles mixed in with the thousands of regular iPhone and Touch titles.

A Turkish company claims to have successfully unlocked an iPhone 3G equipped with v3.1.3 firmware as well as modern baseband code. Recent changes to Apple software updates have put a chill on the unlocking scene, as updating to v3.1.3 simultaneously installs the v05.12.01 baseband, which can not only block new unlocks but also wreck previously established ones. Hackers must normally avoid installing the modern baseband to preserve earlier unlocks.