The "Dream Team" that brought you the iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreak is presenting at HITBSecConf in Amsterdam on May 21 - 25th. The team includes p0sixninja, MuscleNerd and pod2g.

Here's more info on the conference from the hitb website:

The main aim of our conferences has always been to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge network security information. Our main focus is on new and groundbreaking attack and defense methods that have not been seen or discussed in public before. HITBSecConf events bring together a unique mix of security professionals, researchers, law enforcement and members of the hacker underground under one roof and our flagship event in Malaysia sees over 1000 attendees.

The event runs over a 4 day period with 2 days of intensive hands on training sessions followed by a two-day conference with either three or four concurrent tracks inclusive of a hands on lab session (HITB Labs) and 15 minute lightning talks (HITB SIGINT). The HITB Labs caters for only 50-100 attendees and these sessions are intensive, hands-on presentations that require audience interaction. The HITB SIGINT (Signal Intelligence/Interrupt) sessions on the other hand, are designed to provide a quick 15 minute overview for material and research that's 'up and coming' - stuff that isn't quite ready for the mainstream tracks of the conference but deserve a mention nonetheless.

It seems apple aren't keen on Spire and it's growing popularity. So much so that they're enforcing more rules to break it for Spire users.

Previously, you only needed Spire, a host and a certificate and you were away. Now Apple have added a "SetActivationToken" which has disabled Siri for almost everyone on illegitimate devices.

A temporary (hopefully) workaround of deleting "com.apple.assistant.plist" from "/var/mobile/library/preferences" on the device appears to resolve the issue for now, but will this become another game of cat and mouse for apple, just like in Jailbreaking?

No doubt we'll soon find out!

Sprint is reporting 1.8 million iPhones were sold in the 4th quarter of 2011, with 40% of those purchased by new customers. In comparison, AT&T sold 7.6 million and Verizon sold 4.2 million during the same period. This was the first quarter Sprint had the iPhone available and Sprint is the 3rd largest U.S. carrier so that puts the number in some perspective.

This is a statement from their website:

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Wow they lost 1.3 billion dollars....

Apple has won an appeal to have the ban on sales of certain models of iPhone and iPad in the country. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new payments offer. Germans however, aren't out of the water yet. They may lose their push notifications for iCloud mail in a separate court ruling.


The iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 had all been affected, but not its newer iPhone 4S. All 3G models of the iPad were involved, but not their wi-fi-only counterparts such as the iPod touch.

The suspension may only last a few weeks tops, but Apple are able to resume sales in the meantime.

Florian Mueller, who was present at the review was quoted to have said the bond was likely to be around $158million or £100million:
A suspension like this is available only against a bond, but Apple is almost drowning in cash and obviously won't have had a problem with obtaining and posting a bond

Motorola licenses the patent to other companies on Frand (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms. The patent itself relates to:

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Motorola seemed rather put out by the result and signalled their intention to restore the ban.

Apple were, understandably, rather pleased by this result. Their announcement afterwards saying that:

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Lieferbar means available

There's been a lot of buzzing in the past 24 hours about some pictures that were leaked of a prototype iPod Nano that has a camera. The latest reports are showing that there is still a good amount of work to be done to make it final.

This is the latest from M.I.C. Gadget:

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This isn't the first time an iPod Nano prototype with a camera has been rumored. Back in May there were pictures of a prototype that eliminated the clip. In November Apple filed a patent on a clip that had a hole in the clip to allow the camera to see through it.

Anyone interested in this? Does anyone here even have an iPod Nano? (Kinda joking....)

New data was released yesterday (Monday) that stated that 2011's Q4 PC sales leader was indeed Apple! Over HP and Dell, etc., you ask? Well... Kind of. This data includes tablets as personal computers, therefor, including iPad sales with the MacBooks and iMacs, Apple is number one.

Well some of you may think of that as unfair, and as a matter of fact, you aren't alone. Most of the journalists who covered this information thought that the iPad shouldn't be considered a PC... But, er... What necessarily is a personal computer?

Well, in general, a computer is an electronic device that processes information and tasks... And for technicality kids, it has to use binary. Well, the iPad does all that, so why are you complaining? People compared it to other operating systems and stated that it couldn't do most of the things that those OS's can, but that is irrelevant to whether it is a computer or not, isn't it? I mean, computers way back in the day could never run half of those programs, so that reason is void. An iPad is infact a personal computer.

Feel free to discuss my verdict, but that's my view, with a bit of interesting news.

~Fisk~

According to TMONews, T-Mobile will start offering additional support to its million customers that use unlocked iPhones on their network. There's a screenshot of the leaked document above.

Basically they are going to have more iPhone specific information for their customers and customer support to help iPhone users. They are also asking their reps to read up and learn the information to be more helpful.

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Also it has been rumored that the next iPhone will expand it's frequency range to be able to offer 3G to other carriers such as T-Mobile. Currently T-Mobile users can only access the EDGE network.

I'm on an unofficial carrier (not T-Mobile) and I am listed as having an "other" smartphone. There's no documentation or support on my carrier's site. When I've had to deal with their support it's been mostly for billing changes and I've never had them help, or offer help, or even ask what phone I have.

Anyone here on T-Mobile have any success or assistance from them regarding your iPhone?

The long trusted jailbreak tool redsn0w has been updated again to fix iBooks issues. The iPhone Dev-Team, and particularly planetbeing this time, have issued the update which addresses an issue some have been having with DRM and iBooks.

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In related news Corona, the Cydia tweak that allows your tethered jailbreak to be untethered, has also been updated to fix this issue. If you have installed the Cydia tweak you will see an update in Cydia for the tweak (if you haven't already).

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Click here if you want some tutorials on how to use redsn0w to jailbreak your device.