You’d be hard pushed these days to find a cell phone network that can’t remotely delete apps from the smart phones they provide for, but Apple are taking it one step further. From what we can gather from the patent Apple have filed, is that in conjunction with identifying certain activities such as whether it is being or has been Jailbroken, proposals such as audiovisual sensors and even heart beat sensors to tell if...

YouTube’s 15 Minutes I just wanted to start off today’s article by saying that YouTube has extended its video limit to 15 minutes. This is because they have improved on their Content ID software, which is a software that looks at content to see if it is owned by someone else or not.  Feel free to start uploading videos up to 15 minutes now. Google is Dead Baidu, the biggest search engine in China, is now heading to Android. ...

Great news if your a jailbreaker. The Library of Congress has added new rules in the DMCA that allow (among other things) you to legally jailbreak or root your device. This is great news as while it never has exactly been illegal jailbreaking/rooting has always been in a bit of a legal grey area. The official explanation of the new rules: Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where...

Good news if you’ve been waiting for a simple jailbreak for iOS 4.0: comex has just said that he is going to be going ahead with Spirit for iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1 instead of waiting for 4.1. Spirit will be able to jailbreak the iPod touch 2G MB and MC models, the iPod touch 3G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS new and old bootrom as well as the iPhone 4 once it is released and it very likely will be just as simple to use as the original Spirit. Stay...

In this special episode of D3Live I give an overview of the recent iPhone 4 press conference where Steve Jobs took the stage to discuss the iPhone 4 reception issues (aka the ‘death grip’). For the most part he admitted there was a problem but that it is one that other smartphones have and that the recent iOS 4.0.1 update should help. In addition he announced that starting next week and running through September 30th Apple will...

In this video I talk about the current State of Jailbreak. Apple has just released iOS 4.0.1 for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. It is a very small change from 4.0 as it only consists of the updated signal bars nevertheless as always you will lose your jailbreak if you update so I recommend holding off for now. iOS 3.2.1 for the iPad also was released today. It contains a fix for the Wi-Fi issues as well as some general bug fixes...