Jailbreakers and liberators unite! Untethered jailbreaking for any and all iDevices is coming very soon by way of the Spirit Jailbreak. Like the title says, the jailbreak will be untethered meaning there’ll be no need to babysit your USB cord/computer whilst cracking open Apple’s shackled beauty. Just in case you missed the “all encompassing” part, the Spirit Jailbreak will jailbreak iPhone 2G/3G/3GS, iPad WiFi-only/WiFi + 3G, and iPod Touch...

Video Chat — it’s one of those cell phone features that just hasn’t caught on yet here in the states. But a phone with as much media hype and mass market attention as the iPhone could sway things. Since first days of the iPhone, video chat has been on the rumor list many a times. And each time, video chat gurus get their hearts broken when Apple ignores said feature. According to an increasing amount of code found in OS 4.0 beta builds, video chat...

For all of the bitching that people partake of concerning various flips and flops in the tech world, we rarely hear of a follow-up as to what the company in question is doing to things right. Last week, McAfee had a bad week. An update was somehow cleared for public consumption packing a nasty bug — it incorrectly identified svchost.exe (a critical windows process) as a virus, thus deleting it and causing a repeating boot loop. Uh-oh… The update was quickly...

For all the things someone could do with a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone, slapping another OS on there is one of the more extreme measures. Porting Android — the essential polar opposite — is I’d imagine no small feat. A talented man by the name of David Wong has managed to push Android onto his iPhone 2G, turning it into a dual-booting beast of a smartphone. What’s even better than the simple claim of “Android on the iPhone” is that...

Safe you think, safe we’re not. Leave it to the exceptionally daft minds at Pwn2own for revealing just how vulnerable we really are when navigating the online world. A rouge link here, a hidden background download there — it’s pretty treacherous. The point of Pwn2own is not to steal however, but instead inform and help browser devs to better code their products. Rewards help too. And let me tell ya, legally hacking and compromising various browsers...