There's a campaign to crowdsource a jailbreak of Apple's iOS 7. It's called the Device Freedom Prize and there's several different justifications for it. Partly it's that some think that, having paid ...

The practical impact of a new Digital Millennium Copyright Act ruling may be limited because Apple's end user contract still restricts jailbreaking. Erica Ogg is a ...

Thank God the nation's mobile-phone towers are still operating, despite more than 1.7 million downloads of the latest iOS jailbreaking software – evasiOn – which was released days ago. While trying to ...

In context: Jailbreaking iPhones has become something of a game between hackers and Apple. Usually, as soon as a group releases an exploit, Cupertino developers plug the hole. Apple has already ...

Apple issued a stern warning for users who may be thinking about jailbreaking their iPhones through an updated support page on its official website. Jailbreaking allows iPhone owners to take full ...

Fans of customizing iPhones and owners of the iPhone 5 got a huge boost when the popular jailbreak tool evasi0n launched for iOS 6 in February. One month on, downloads continue to rain in as Cydia — ...

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

iPhone hacker George Hotz claims he has developed a new untethered software jailbreak method for the iPhone and iPod Touch that may also work on the iPad. Hotz, also known online as Geohot, says in a ...