Stories by Gary Ng

@i0n1c, aka Stefan Esser previously revealed to the world his untethered iOS 4.3 jailbreak on his iPad. Esser has added an update via his YouTube video that the ETA for releasing his untethered jailbreak would be 'before next weekend': Because so many people are asking for an ETA: I am pretty sure that the untether...

Do you have Canada's worst cellphone bill? We've seen users rack up $37,000 via data roaming and others get hit with similar bills of $18,000 and $6000. CBC Marketplace once again called on Canadians to share their cellphone bill horror stories, and they've finally published their segment. Three bills related to Virgin, Bell, and Rogers...

With Apple's release of the iPad 2, some of the exploits used to create jailbreak tools for iOS have been patched. According to Canadian iPhone hacker iH8sn0w, the Limera1n exploit has been closed: Muscle Nerd from the iPhone Dev Team also confirmed the SHAtter exploit has been closed by Apple as well. SHAtter was an...

Yesterday we saw the video of an untethered iOS 4.3 jailbreak by German security expert, Stefan Esser (@i0n1c). The exploit he used is a "buffer overflow in the kernel heap" (someone translate this for me), and has not been discovered yet by Apple. @i0n1c Says an Early iOS 4.3 Jailbreak Release Will Burn Exploit With...

The iPhone was hacked last year at the 2010 CanSecWest conference held in Vancouver. This is where the Pwn2Own contest takes place, and at this year's conference, the iPhone 4 was exploited easily once again. Charlie Miller teamed up with his colleague Dion Blazakis on the winning exploit. Miller has won the event three years...

Some new images have surfaced that are apparently mold engineering drawings for the upcoming iPhone 5. According to MacRumors, these images leaked by iDealsChina would be used by case designers to create cases that require exact specifications. We just got what appears to be mold engineering drawings for iPhone 5. These would be used by...

Update 1: @i0n1c stated back on February 15th he was anticipating the release of iOS 4.3 so he could release his untether. Signs are looking good folks...http://antid0te.com/ The day after iOS 4.3 was released early by Apple, an untethered jailbreak video has been posted on the web. Stefan Esser from Cologne Germany, who goes by...

With iOS 4.3, Apple improved Mobile Safari via the implementation of the Nitro JavaScript engine, which is supposed to more than double the performance of JavaScript. Just how much are these improvements compared to Mobile Safari on iOS 4.2.1? German blog macnews.de posted results of tests using Geekbench 2, Guage Mathematical Tool, Google's V8 benchmark...

Have you ever had little ones play with your iPhone, only to cause an in-app purchase? Well, Apple today has changed the way in-app purchases are made, to prevent incidents like $1400 in charges via Smurfs' Village (shame on them for having $99 in-app purchases for "snowflakes" and "Smurfberries"). According to the Washington Post, iOS...

Do you ever check out the "Tips" on Foursquare? What if you could ask questions and get back instant responses in real time? That is the premise of Localmind, a brilliant crowdsourcing app that calls upon those checked-in via Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. Made in Canada, but Making History Around the World Developed in...

Yesterday Rovio posted a trailer of Angry Birds Seasons St. Patrick's Day. Yesterday evening, the St. Patrick's Day update was finally released. What's New In Version 1.3.0 Go Green With Angry Birds! Have the Luck of the Irish and Go Green with this episode of Angry Birds Seasons: The St. Patrick’s Day Edition! After the...

iPhone users of the native Twitter app were up in arms after the latest major update introduced the Quick Bar. This new feature showed trending topics but its placement obstructed the main timeline. Jailbroken iPhone users were able to remove the feature via a hack called Twizzler, but for everyone else they spoke their minds--140...