Cat And Mouse Archive

  • Video: Okay, now the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta has been jailbroken

    Video: Okay, now the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta has been jailbroken

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Late last night, we put up a post debunking the idea going around the Bloggerdom that the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta had already been jailbroken, because, well, it hadn't. But now it has.

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  • iTunes 9.1 preventing jailbroken devices from syncing, breaking tethered jailbreaks?

    iTunes 9.1 preventing jailbroken devices from syncing, breaking tethered jailbreaks?

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Hurray, it’s cat and mouse time again! iTunes 9.1 was just released, and it looks like Apple has taken yet another step (or two) in their endless fight against jailbreaking. Take this with a grain of salt for the time being, but we’re hearing a lot of early reports that jailbroken devices will not sync with [...]

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  • Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they've bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you've bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don't tell Devin!) Those books are only "supposed" to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.

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  • CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    In the dog eat dog world of the CE business, margins are low and money - especially in this economy - is tight. That's why a number of smaller vendors, including some we talked to in Vegas, took rooms in local hotels or ran "peripheral" events in other venues. The Daily Tech reports that some of those vendors have been ousted by the hotels themselves after the CEA, the organization that runs CES, convinced management to force them out.

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  • Apple Moves To Block Jailbreaking In New iPhones

    Apple Moves To Block Jailbreaking In New iPhones

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    In the endless game of cat and mouse that is Apple vs. the jailbreak scene, the cat just put a pretty nasty gash in the mouse’s face. For the past seven months, jailbreaking (opening an iPhone to applications not signed by Apple for installation) has relied on an exploit dubbed “24kPwn”. We’ll skip the technical voodoo [...]

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  • Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: AT&T Tethering Hack Is Dead, Palm Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: AT&T Tethering Hack Is Dead, Palm Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    And yet another game of cat and mouse begins. Over the past 24 hours, Apple has released updates for both iTunes and the iPhone beta SDK. While both are seemingly minor on the feature front, each packs a bit of disappointment for those who had been using loopholes to their advantage.

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  • Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: Tethering On AT&T Is Dead, Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: Tethering On AT&T Is Dead, Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    And yet another game of cat and mouse begins. Over the past 24 hours, Apple has released updates for both iTunes and the iPhone beta SDK. While both are seemingly minor on the feature front, each packs a bit of disappointment for those who had been using loopholes to their advantage. First off the bat was a [...]

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  • Apple on Palm Pre iTunes Sync: ‘Watch Out’

    Apple on Palm Pre iTunes Sync: ‘Watch Out’

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Palm’s cheeky but gutsy addition of iTunes syncing to the Pre was always at the mercy of Apple’s engineers, if not its lawyers. In a support document updated yesterday, though, Apple has made its first move in what we expect to be a long cat and mouse game. Right now, Palm Media Sync will “transfer DRM-free music, [...]

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