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Really interesting article claiming that Steve Jobs anticipated iPhone hacks and loves every minute of it. The article explains this a “watershed moment for Apple” that will propel it to the top of the tech industry. A must-read. Check it out.

AT&T and Apple may face an uphill battle prosecuting hackers that untether the iPhone from the AT&T wireless network.

Apple Inc. is facing yet another class-action lawsuit over its iPhone, this time from a New York State resident who claims the company failed to adequately disclose to consumers that the handset is locked to AT&T’s network and that using the device internationally would result in substantial data roaming charges…

Today developers Nicholas “Drudge” Penree and Shaun “Ste” Erickson have announced unlimited free Installer.app packaging for iPhone application developers.

Everyone’s favorite hacker of the week, George Hotz, has enjoyed 13 of his 15 minutes of fame this week, appearing on news shows and conducting media interviews about his successful iPhone hack, and good for him. Let’s just hope his last 2 minutes are not spent in a courtroom.

Crackers at The Friend Society (ya, the same people who brought us last year’s NFL dirty bomb hoax) have announced that user-friendly software taking advantage of the recnet iPhone unlock techniques will be released on Sept 1St! Apple must me getting a headache right about now…

He was awakened shortly before 3 a.m. local time by a man from O’Melveny & Myers, a law firm that has worked for Apple in the past. Claiming that he was calling on behalf of AT&T the man offered “friendly advice” that he took as threatening. “

Lasers, Flat-Panel Display Technology, Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Surface Computing. Highly debatable list, as would anybody’s selection.

Unlock your iPhone McGyver-style using two pins, a cable and two pieces of cork. Seriously.

The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car

Three hackers named Dubbi, Ofir and Eli have claimed to have unlocked the iPhone independently in Israel. If confirmed, this would be the fifth time that someone has unlocked the iPhone with a different method. The hackers say they made more progress in regards to the iPhone’s user interface. Meanwhile, AT&T talked with Gizmodo about the unlocking.

Hey, that’s what they claim: $100,000 in cold hard cash for the right to freely distribute the iPhone unlocking software onto the Nets. Full credit given to the creator(s) of course with a proposed release date of Wed night at 12:00am (in some unspecified time zone).

Apple’s founders got their start in 1975 by building and selling “Blue Boxes” that hacked AT&T’s network. Now they’ve flipped the script - cutting down others that are trying to Open the iPhone for use on other networks. Going to be hard for Apple to take the moral high ground on this one - especially when the evidence is on Woz’s website!

Check out this clay iPhone. Nothing more to say.

PogoNotes is a web-based note-taking application that’s ideal for your iPhone.

If you look at the first paragraph in this link, the story goes: “HACKERS have unlocked Microsoft’s new iPhone, allowing it to be used by any network.” All I have to say is, good game.

This is what iphone.com was used for before the domain name was sold to Apple this year.

Apple’s latest offering proves that revolutionary tech products don’t

According to Paul, he bought his girlfriend an 8GB iPhone because she wanted one. He then found out she was cheating on him with a guy from church and now he is selling her iPhone.

Paul Levinson asks if we can do better than simply lock devices like the iPhone: “In the digital age, you can best make money - as well as friends - by including and not excluding.” Read on…

A New Jersey teenager has developed a way to break the lock tying Apple’s iPhone to its wireless network, making what’s arguably the gadget of the year available to a wider audience.

Germany’s Balda says that it has won an order for 6 to 8 million touch sensors per year to be supplied to an unnamed “leading mobile phone manufacturer”. Start your Apple iPhone speculations here.

Big news today on the iPhone development front. This morning brings the release of both a native instant messaging client and a native IRC client.

“By supporting the iPhone browser, we’re providing our affiliates and their audiences with the flexibility to deliver and consume online video via one of the most exciting and innovative mobile devices on the market today.”

While the rest of us patiently wait for either UniquePhones or iPhoneSIMfree to call high noon on AT&T’s legal team and release their software unlocks, 17-year-old George Hotz is cashing in on all those hours of work it took him to work his hardware magic:

For years, smart-phone designers have built products around the premise that people should only have to use one hand to look up a contact,

The iPhone is a marvel of design, right? So why are there four or five different ways to send email? TUAW thinks the inconsistent design details indicate a big old rush to market. They provide a gallery of images that highlight all the very different ways you can send email

Taiwan’s HTC will sell its own-brand 3G mobile phone HTC Vogue through Sprint Nextel as soon as the end of September or early October, HTC spokesman Hui-ming Cheng said Monday. The company began selling HTC Touch, a phone that uses similar touch screen technology as Apple’s iPhone, in June in Europe and Asia.

Glen Rock NJ – George Hotz thought he’d be heading to the Rochester Institute of Technology for his first year of college, but instead, the iPhone hacker is headed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

It was bound to happen: AT&T is going after the commercial snakes groups trying to profit from the iPhone unlocking. Apparently they can hunt these mercenaries down. You can still 100% unlock with the TurboSIM method but, once again, there is only one way to really blow up the Death Star: Support the iPhone Dev Team to get the FREE software unlock.

The interesting (and possibly telling) bit comes up at the end of their release, where apparently UniquePhones is “evaluating what to eventually do with the software should they be legally denied the right to sell it.”

Seems AT&T is a bit annoyed at the idea. A middle of the night phone call from a Silicon Valley law firm is slowing down the release of the software to you.

It ’s not turning out to be such a great day for AT&T (T) and Apple (AAPL), as some enterprising hackers have unlocked the iPhone and made it ready for any GSM network.

I went ahead and hacked my iphone, following the instructions at http://www.hacktheiphone.com/. The process was simple and things went flawlessly. I ’m pretty impressed with the apps that are already available from various sources, including a ported NES emulator, and some great utilities like SendSong, which allows you to email any song

This evening I decided today would be the day I upgraded to 1.0.2. Despite a few hiccups with the restoration, the update proceeded and my iPhone was now running Apple’s latest and greatest release.

A teenager in New Jersey has posted instructions to his blog on how to unlock the Apple iPhone so it can work outside of AT&T’s wireless network

Am I the only person that finds it ironic that someone has unlocked the iPhone, but you have to BUY the software? I am sure they won ’t mind it when I download the software for free via torrent.

Along with a secretive group of online collaborators, Hotz broke the restrictions that make Apple Inc.’s iPhone, arguably the hottest gadget of the year, work only on AT&T Inc.’s cellular network.

About 13 percent of our respondents said that they’d run into at least one significant problem with their device in the past month. The most common culprit: the battery.

“We thought today would be, well, fitting to start our new technology law series Know Your Rights, written by Engadget’s own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world.”