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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...

In a new promotion this week, Bell has launched an activation fee waiver promotion and is waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Talk and More Plans Smartphone plans...

Telus was first out of the gate to rebrand its wireless network as "4G". This was then followed by Bell, Videotron, and now SaskTel and MTS. We've seen a lot of this 4G rebranding recently because the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards gives carrier authority to market their network a certain way. In this case,...

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...

If you've been patiently waiting for the iPhone 4 unlock for Basebands other than 01.59.00, the Dev Team has some bad news. According to a recent tweet from Dev Team member MuscleNerd, it is taking longer than expected to get the unlock: Sorry, there's no news on the i4 unlock for those who lost 01.59...

As developers get their hands on the publicly released iOS 4.3 update, reports have confirmed that the iPhone 5 will be getting the same A5 chip featured in the iPad 2. The iPad 2 and iPhone 5, the latter being code named N94AP, share the same S5L8940 processor designation. There is no information on clock...

Today AppleInsider reports on comments from Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who claims that Apple's manufacturing partners will begin production of the white iPhone 4 sometime this month, with a launch expected in early April. The report only applies to the GSM iPhone 4, with no information available on whether the CDMA iPhone 4 will...