Remember we told you about that a petition was submitted to the White House to make unlocking of iPhones and other smartphones legal? Well, the White House has now responded to the petition, which got the required number of signatures, and it’s quite a good response. The officials at the White House believe that unlocking [...]

Viacom and Time Warner Cable have “resolved their pending disputes” according to yesterday’s post on Viacom’s official blog. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Viacom, it’s the parent company to MTV, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Spike TV, and other popular entertainment brands. This means that subscribers to Time Warner Cable’s service will [...]

Last month, we told you about the Portal game port for Android devices and how you could try it out even though it was just in alpha. Now though, the developers of the game for Android devices are saying that they’re going to stop the development on the game. Why? Well, the guys who were [...]

Earlier in January we told you that the EFF were fighting to renew the DMCA exemption that made Jailbreaking mobile devices legal. The EFF are even fighting to make Jailbreaking tablets and consoles legal, by adding new exemptions to the DMCA. Engadget recently had the chance to sit down with the staff attorney of the EFF, [...]

Apple has always loved throwing “i” in front of their products including the iPad, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iMac, and the iBook, which explains why they are so protective of it. According to The Next Web, a new smartphone case, that is in New Zealand seems to be Apple’s next target. Dubbed the “driPhone” it is [...]

If you still don’t know what all the fuss about the Internet not being free and open was, then you have no clue about SOPA or PIPA. Well, it’s better to know something rather than know nothing. People who live and breathe Internet will obviously know what I’m talking about, but others will still be [...]

Few days ago, we told you about the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) helping in keeping jailbreaking legal. This was in regard to the expiration of the Jailbreaking exemption to the DMCA added on July 2010. Now, it’s high time that users who support jailbreaking and want to continue jailbreaking to take action and send your comments to the Copyright offices [...]

Jailbreakers everywhere should look up to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). You see, back in July of 2010 the EFF helped pass a law that made Jailbreaking (gaining root access) to Apple iOS devices legal in the United States. Jailbreaking could not have progressed as much as it had, if it all, if this law [...]

An interesting article appeared on ModMyi this morning that gives some real hope for jailbreaking! You see Scion, a brand of vehicles manufactured by Toyota, recently developed a custom iPhone/iPod Touch theme specifically for jailbroken iDevices in which they have submitted it for hosting through Cydia (ModMyi repo). The other interesting aspect to this is that they are [...]

We recently reported that Federal Magistrate Joseph Spero officially authorized Sony to subpoena Geohot’s web provider to secure the official log of IP addresses that visited GeoHot.com between January 2009 and early 2011. Now Sony are taking a look into GeoHot’s personal records after being granted access rights to all of Geohot’s PayPal records for 2009, 2010, and even [...]