With each iOS device and firmware version released, another something-ra1n is pushed out not too long after. With that said, the number of different jailbreaking utilities carrying the “rain” name tag was getting out of control. With Geohot’s latest “ra1nb0wra1n”, the list grows unfortunately. But it’s actually a good thing. The new http://www.ra1nb0wra1n.com/ is an all-in-one web app jailbreak tool to help simplify the jailbreaking...

Geohot is Sony’s new best enemy thanks to his efforts in giving back functionality to end users that Sony has stripped away. But it appears that while Sony whittles away at his finances and self image, a new friendship is being born. An “entrepreneur on loan” to Microsoft, @BrandonWatson, sent Geohot a tweet stating that the Windows Phone 7 development team would give him a Windows Phone 7 dev phone if he contacted the group via email — a bold, but...

George Hotz is one of the biggest news items in the tech world in there here and now. He is the little guy, a small time hacker who took down the iPhone, and has now taken down the PS3. Sony is a multi-billion dollar company who doesn’t like Geohot’s tinkering. A fight for generations to come for sure. The legal battle has already begun, with a recent court appearance ending with the judge questioning why the lawsuit was in her California court room. (George...

A couple of weeks ago, former iOS jailbreaker and current PS3 hacker, George Hotz aka “Geohot”, released (in coordination with the fail0ver team) code to crack the PS3′s hardware and software encryption thus allowing home brew software to be installed and run. Sony naturally wasn’t all to happy, and just recently responded with a lawsuit asking for unspecified monetary damages as well as the complete removal of any and all traces of Geohot’s...

Infamous PS3 hacker and former iOS jailbreaker, Geohot, has found himself in the wrong end of the law, with Sony shaking the big stick. As of roughly 7 o’clock tonight, Geohot has officially been served, according to his website. And no surprise here — the lawsuit names Geohot’s posting of private PS3 encryption keys in coordination with the fail0ver team (among other things) as the reason(s) for this legal endeavor. Hopefully the courts have more...