Apple to upgrade and block JailbreakMe jailbreak!

Steve Jobs and his team are always fast and agile and this efficiency is mostly very useful and the main reason we all enjoy in Apple’s products, but this time we wont be so happy regarding their this, at least not people who jailbreak their devices. Apple is preparing to close the security hole used by Comex to jailbreak iOS devices like iPad, iPod Touch and and iPhone. Also this exploit has enabled for the first jailbreak for iPad 2 which was previously the only Apple device which couldn’t be jailbroken.

JailberakMe - more than million devices jailbroken!

The new JailbreakMe jailbreak released a couple of days ago has already served more than one million users worldwide said Paul Grant aka chpwn as he is known on Twitter, one of the jailbreak developers which brought the project to successful release. JailbreakMe which first occurrence happened in 2007 is a jailbreak solution which exploits PDF vulnerabilities in iOS for jailbreaking iOS devices. All you need to do to jailbreak is to surf with your Mobile Safari browser to JailbreakMe.com and your device becomes jailbroken in a couple of minutes.

Here is @chpwn Twitter message acknowledging the number of jailbreak so far.

Launch apps quickly with Super Slider Cydia tweak

Best Cydia tweaks will help iPhone users to use their iPhones or iPads faster and more efficiently than before. SuperSlider is a tweak that does the same thing. Apple’s iPhone and iPad are touch screen devices, that is one of the best features they have, but because of this it is necessary to have screen look on whenever the device isn’t actively used. But after some time it becomes a boring and time wasting task to unlock the screen everytime you need just to check out for new notifications on your device or status of some app.

Pegatron to assemble 15 million iPhones

Apple has apparently filled an order for 15 million iPhone 5 smartphones from their hardware suppliers Pegatron Technology, which is a Taiwan based manufacturing corporation. As you probably know iPhone 5 should be launched in September of this year. If this estimations for release of the new iPhone model are correct, Apple and their partners will have to be really aggressive with their production plans.

JailbreakMe 3.0 now live!

The famous JailbreakMe jailbreak solution which is based on an Safari security exploit is now officially live and available. Even better this jailbreak will work flawlessly for iPad 2 tablet running iOS 4.3.3 which was impossible to jailbreak until today! All you need to do is to go to jailbreakme.com on your iPhone or iPad Safari browser and try it for yourself.

Here is a Youtube video with a demo of the jailbreaking!

Google + submitted to App Store!

Google + the latest Google product which should redeem Google’s position in social networking world now completely dominated by Facebook and Twitter has being submitted as an app to Apple’s App Store. This app is already available on the Google’s website as an web app and also in Android Market.

The news was announced by a member of Google’s team Erica Joy, who wrote this on her page. Surely this doesn’t come as a too big of surprise as the number of iPhone users in US is exceedingly high, but the pace at which Google wants to tap into the iOS market is surprising. If past experience is correct the approval process for Google + shouldn’t last longer than 10 to 15 days.

JailbreakMe soon to be updated?

After we wrote yesterday about temporary iPad 2 jailbreak release on JailbreakMer website, today the website changed an now you can see the message: “ We will be back soon! ” note which could perhaps indicate that the website is being updated and refitted possibly due to the upcoming release of the jailbreak for iPad 2.

Interestingly the same sticky note is usually being posted by Apple whenever they take Apple Store down when preparing for a new mayor update. To remind you, yesterday morning someone has published the jailbreak for a short time, and so far it is not clear was this just a mistake or someone purposefully tried to sabotage the new jailbreak, but the jailbreak was working and there were several confirmed successful iPad 2 jailbreaks.

A new Facebook video calling service app arrives to iOS

SHAPE services, a successful smartphone app dev company has prepared another app which could become a bestseller. They like to promote themselves as one of the rare companies which launched bestsellers in four different categories in the App Store: Productivity , Social Networking, Business and Utilities. SHAPE services are well known in the smartphone world s they create apps for different devices including Blackberry and Android.

Apple’s security breached by a hacker group?

A new hacker group which calls itself AntiSec, which supposedly includes members of two earlier nn related groups: Anonymous which became famous after hacking in support of Wikileaks and Lulz Security. This group has released a document which contains confidential data on administrative usernames and passwords for Apple’s servers. Antisec has announced in its Tweet stream that Apple is a potential target, but since they are bussy right now, there is no need for Apple to worry at this moment.

iPad 2 jailbreak revealed for a moment?

Today morning a jailbreak for iPad 2 which was long awaited was apparently leaked by someone inside the jailbreak dev group. It seems that a real jailbreak solution, which was developed earlier by Comex, dubbed the JailbreakMe vs 3 was leaked to the Internet. With this jailbreak users only had to visit the JailbreakMe website with their Safari web browser and their device, iPad 2 in this case becomes jailbroken. The jailbreak was later been disabled, but a number of iPad 2 users have confirmed that the jailbreak was real and worked flawlessly. So there are a number of iPad 2 tablets with Cydia installed. JailbreakMe is based on the userland security hole.