iTunes Match beta music locker service launched, developers only

Apple has again being busy during the last couple of days with their new cloud services. This time they have announced in a email to all developers that iTunes Match is now open for beta testing. For those of our readers which don’t know, iTunes Match is an iCloud based music library for all your songs, which will enable to enjoy in your music wherever you happen to be, around the clock on any iOS device: iPhone, iPodTouch or iPad. When you subscribe to iTunes Match, you will get three months of free usage with your annual subscription fee. If you want to start using this new service, you must install the latest beta version of iOS 5 which is by the way available to iOS developers only. You can become an official developers if you pay annual fee of $99 without any other requirement needed.

Dev Team develops jailbreak for iOS 5 beta 6

iPhone Dev Team strikes again! This time they have launched the RedSnow jailbreak for latest beta version of iOS 5 which is version 6.0. It seems that Redsn0w is able to jailbreak all recent firmware upgrades from Apple, although all versions of iOS 5 jailbreak are only tethered,which could be one of the reasons Apple isn’t bothered too much about this.

Apple introduces earthquake warning for Japanese version of iOS 5

It seems that Steve Jobs and his team have clearly understood the threats coming from natural disasters like those which hit Japan only a couple of moths ago. The earthquake that hit Japan, followed by an devastating tsunami have taken a large number of human lives and a huge material destruction in Japan’s coastal area. And the disaster become even worse since the tsunami affected large nuclear energy plants. The same disaster had also influenced Apple’s business as some of the key factories for iPhone and ipad components are located in Japan.

Jailbreak developers have discovered hidden Speech into text option in the iOS 5b

Apple has implemented a lot of effort to hide the Speech into text feature in latest iOS 5 b4 but as good as their engineers are, our jailbreak developers are even better! An online blog has posted images of standard iOS keyboard on which an key with a microphone sign is clearly visible. According to this, Speech into text will be very easy for use.

Apple launches iCloud.com, for developers only!

Apple has just released its long awaited iCloud, a multimedia backup and streaming service. And indeed, it offers all you will ever want from such a service in a always recognizable Apple way. It will offer you web apps like what we see with Google apps and more like: Calendar, Mail, Contacts, iWork and so on. FindMyiPhone becomes a web app too!

iTunes 10.5 beta version 3 now available for developers

If you decide you would like to try out the latest version of iOS 5 beta 3 on your iPhone or iPad, you will need to download and install the latest version of iTunes 10.5 vs. 3 which is now available for both Windows and Mac computers. This version of iTunes will work with all functions and features of the latest beta version of iOS, so it is a must to use this version of iTunes with your upgraded iOS. Keep in mind: you wont be able to upgrade your iOS unless you install this version of iTunes.

Apple’s iOS 5 beta version 3 already jailbroken with RedSn0w!

One of more prominent jailbreak developers known under his twitter pseudonym @MusleNerd has publicly confirmed that his team has been able to jailbreak the latest beta version of the new upcoming iOS 5 vs. 3. This version of iOS 5 has been jailbroken by upgraded version of RedSn0w 0.9.8 b1

So if you need you can easily jailbreak your device running iOS 5 with this latest version of RedSn0w. Keep in mind that this is only an early version of the jailbreak and is intended to be used only by high skilled developers, not average iPhone users. If you decide to jailbreak anyway remember that you must point RedSn0w to iOS 5 beta version 1.

Sn0wBreeze 2.8 to jailbreak iOS 5 b2

Famous jailbreak developer @iH8Sn0w has just updated Sn0wBreeze jailbreak to support jailbreaking of the latest iOS 5 beta version 2. This are good news to read we believe as it seems that jailbreak devs are working hard to keep up with the latest developments introduced by Apple with the iOS 5. Sn0wBreeze was updated and seeded as version 2.8 beta-3.

Here are some features of the upgraded jailbreak:

1. Works with iOS 5 beta version 2.
2. Not for average users - released for developers use.
3. Will not activate the iPhone.
4. Tethered jailbreak.

iOS 5 introduces wireless firmware upgrade for iPhone

Apple has for long time planed to upgrade it’s iOS devices to be PC free. Finally it seems that they have made a significant step in this direction with the new iOS 5. According to some developers which have discovered this through the iOS 5 Software Development Kit (SDK), iOS 5 is meant to offer wireless iOS upgrades through 3G connections. But not everything is completely clear regarding this feature. It seems that not all kind of upgrades will be able through 3G networks. Most likely, smaller firmware upgrades will be available through 3G connections while mayor ones will probably need to be downloaded through your Wi-fi connection.

Apple closes the Gevey Sim hack

If you are an iPhone 4 user you are probably aware that most iPhone 4 devices with upgraded baseband version cant be unlocked with any software tool so far. The only solution for unlocking was the Gevey Sim card interposer. But not any more. As we wrote previously, Apple has just released the iOS 5 beta version 2 which according to iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd has patched the exploit used by Gevey. It isn’t Apple’s usual practice top patch such exploits while still in early beta phase of iOS release so it is quite possible that Apple was under strong pressure by official iPhone carriers.