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Windows Phone 7 to be jailbroken soon
It hasn’t been long since Windows Phone 7 was launched, in fact it only reached our shores this Monday, but the hacking community is not one to rest. As of today, it appears that someone has found a way to run “native unmanaged code”, in other words- unauthorized apps and firmware, on a WP7 phone. Or in simple terms- WP7 phones will be able to run apps that aren’t downloaded from the Marketplace. And all these unauthorized apps that work on a jailbroken WP7 phone won’t be on the Marketplace, they will probably be distributed through some sort of app store like Cydia for the iPhone. Sounds like things are getting interesting on the WP7 front. I wonder what Microsoft will do in response to the breach?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.