Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone, declaring Monday there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.”
Jailbreaking is hacking the phone’s OS to allow consumers to run any app on the phone they choose, including [...]
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NEWS: Jailbreaking iPhone Legal, U.S. Government Says
July 28th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: copyright law · hackers · Iphone · iPhone applications · iphone4
NEWS: iPhone 4 Reaches the Gray Market
June 30th, 2010 No Comments
Last week, more than 1 million people snapped up the device in the U.S., Japan and other countries where it went on sale. But some Apple fans in Hong Kong, including visitors from China, couldn’t wait, and in some cases paid more than $3,000 for a gray-market iPhone 4.
There are two types of gray-market iPhone [...]
Tags: Gray Market Diversion · Hong Kong · Iphone · iphone4 · unlocked iphone
News: Apple Faces Suit Over Mussolini On iPhone
February 5th, 2010 No Comments
Italy’s state-owned film company says it will file suit over Apple’s use of recorded speeches and video of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The film archive is managed by Cinecitta Luce, which alleges the material played from an Apple iPhone application had been copied from a DVD without permission and was placed for sale on Apple’s online [...]
Tags: Apple · Copyright Piracy · Iphone · iPhone applications · iTunes
News: Sony’s ‘unhackable’ PlayStation 3 hacked
January 29th, 2010 No Comments
The PlayStation3 – previously considered unhackable – has been modified to run pirated software by an American who unlocked the original iPhone.
George Hotz told the BBC that he’s beaten the PlayStation 3’s piracy protection with a combination of hardware and software modifications.
The high-profile hacker admits that he hasn’t hacked the whole system and its protected [...]
Tags: Iphone · Playstation 3 · software piracy · Sony
News: There’s an Android in My iPhone
January 15th, 2010 No Comments
Here’s one of the more curious gadgets you’re not going to see on the show floor of the Consumer Electronics Show. It’s an iPhone knock-off that may just be better than the iPhone.
An acquaintance of mine stumbled upon this gem in Shenzhen, China. It comes in what looks like a proper iPhone box and has [...]
Tags: Android · Counterfeit Goods · counterfeit iPhone · Iphone · knockoff cell phones
News: Lost iPhone prototype spotlights counterfeiting
August 4th, 2009 No Comments
HONG KONG
One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone?
Sun Danyong, the 25-year-old suicide victim who worked at contract cellphone maker Foxconn International’s massive gray and white factory complex in Dongguan, had 16 prototypes [...]
Tags: Apple · china · Counterfeiting · Iphone
News: Shanzhai ji: Fake phones lowdown
July 21st, 2009 No Comments
Zhu Chenghao takes a drag on his cigarette as he pulls out his latest top-selling phone–the iPhone Mini. He may be less charismatic than Steve Jobs but is every bit as keen to show those all too familiar features from a full-size iPhone: The touchscreen, integrated media playback, games, colorful icons and stylish curved finish.
But [...]
Tags: Australia · Cell Phones · china · Counterfeiting · Iphone · Shanghai · Windows Mobile
News: Counterfeit Supply Chains in Asia
June 8th, 2009 No Comments
“We should enable IPR holders to get enough compensation, which should deprive the infringer of any benefit and make the consequences for their actions dire”
Xi Xiaoming, Vice President of China’s Supreme People’s Court
“We don’t want to ignore counterfeiting, but for foreign companies … I’m afraid they should also pay some cost due to the realities [...]
Tags: Apple · china · Iphone · supply chain
News: Forget the iPhone, China likes the Hi Phone
April 29th, 2009 No Comments
China- Chinese people are flocking in their droves to buy a phone which looks so like the iPhone but is so much cheaper because it’s a counterfeit.
An article in the New York Times said the Hi-Phone has a familiar Apple logo and the salesman in Shenzhen the reporter talked to claimed it was just as [...]
Tags: Apple · Counterfeiting · Iphone
