In the ongoing commotion around location, privacy and what your iPhone knows about what you did last summer, the witness list for upcoming Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearings on mobile privacy has been announced. Senator Al Franken’s (D-MN) office told The Loop that Apple’s VP of software technology, Guy L. “Bud” Tribble, will be there, along with regulators, privacy advocates and Google’s VP of public policy.

Franken invited the companies to send representatives to his hearing a couple of weeks ago, as the location issues were making news. Tribble has been on the hot seat before when it comes to Congressional oversight of digital privacy; he appeared at a similar hearing last summer, alongside Facebook’s CTO and Google’s lead privacy engineer. He’s also one of the longest-serving Apple and NeXT veterans, and is credited with identifying the legendary Reality Distortion Field power of Steve Jobs. Perhaps he should borrow the field generator for his testimony.

The hearings will begin on May 10 at 10 am Eastern time. If you’re watching on C-SPAN, keep an eye on the senators as Tribble enters the room… the ones that recoil and run away are almost certainly Klingons.

Apple’s Bud Tribble will testify before Senate committee, says Franken originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple climbed its way into the elite Top 50 of the Fortune 500 list for this year. The Cupertino company climbed 21 spots to claim the #35 position between Medco Health solutions and Boeing. Apple was propelled upwards by sales of the iPad, the iPhone and content from the iOS App Store. Combined with its iTunes and Mac hardware sales, the company netted US$14 billion in profits in 2010 and is counted among the 20 most profitable companies in the world.

Apple leads both the tablet and smartphone market and its computer sales are growing. When looking at revenue for the Computer and Office equipment category, Apple settled in second place behind market leader HP and edged out Dell which dropped down to third place. Apple’s forecast for 2011 remains strong — the company continues to expand into new markets with its iOS devices and its Mac hardware line continues to be updated with the latest generation hardware.

Apple now ranks #35 in Fortune 500 originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iPad 2 made its official debut in China on May 6 and the popular tablet device sold out in just four hours at the flagship Apple store in Beijing. According to M.I.C Gadget, the scene at the Beijing store was reportedly wild with hundreds of customers waiting in line, scalpers on the sidelines looking to buy and sell iPad 2s for cash, security guards circling the crowd and even a German Shepherd on hand to keep the scene under control.

Similar to previous launches, demand for the iPad 2 greatly outstripped supply, a scenario confirmed by Apple during its latest earning conference call. Apple’s acting-CEO Tim Cook said the company was facing “the mother of all backlogs” with the iPad 2. Apple is working on increasing production and hopes to reduce iPad 2 wait times in the upcoming quarters.

iPad 2 sells out in 4 hours in Beijing originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Quality control problems with LCD panels from LG Display may have contributed to the prolonged shortage of the iPad 2. According to the report from Digitimes, early batches of the 9.7-inch panels supplied by LG had a light leak issue that limited LG’s ability to meet demand. As a result, LG only produced 3.2 million panels in the first quarter of 2011, a figure that trails the four million panels produced by Samsung. This report corroborates an earlier report from IHS iSuppli that blamed the iPad 2 shortage on an unknown manufacturing problem with LCDs.

LG has reportedly fixed this light leakage problem and is back on track to ramp up production this spring. Chimei Innolux is also prepping to contribute to the supply of IPS panels for the iPad 2 starting in May. If both these manufacturers can boost production, then perhaps iPad 2 supply constraints can be eased in this current quarter.

Quality issues with LG manufactured panels to blame for iPad 2 shortage originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Searching for the perfect Jailbreak app in Cydia on the iPhone can be a frustratingly slow experience. Cydia Search from Planet-iPhones.com eases your pain by allowing you to browse through the plethora of Cydia apps by category, repository or author, all from the comfort of a desktop browser. If you know what you’re looking for, you can search by name, description, author, version number or one of the many other search filters, which should make short work of finding what you’re looking for.

Once you’ve located a package you’re interested in, you can check out who wrote it, the price, the current version, which repository it’s stored on, as well as view the actual Cydia entry as it would appear on an iPhone. While this isn’t the first implementation of a desktop Cydia interface — ModMyi also provides a searchable front end for Cydia on the desktop — Cydia Search provides a fast, slick experience that’s well worth checking out.

It’s great for those people sitting on the fence as to whether or not they want to jailbreak their iDevice since it allows them to view all the programs, add-ons, tweaks and themes before they take the plunge. Likewise, if you’re looking for a new app or update, Cydia Search will allow you to find what you’re looking for before you head to Cydia on your device to download it.

Cydia Search lets you search for jailbreak apps from your desktop originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jailbreakers hesitant to update to iOS 4.3.3 can now do so without losing their ability to jailbreak. The iPhone dev team confirmed iOS 4.3.3 is still vulnerable to the untethered jailbreak exploit that @i0n1c created for 4.3.1. Released earlier this week, this version of iOS fixes the location bug that made headlines a few weeks ago.

Both the PwnageTool and redsn0w have been updated and will jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 devices including the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM), iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, iPad1 and AppleTV 2G (v4.3;8F202). As we have seen in the past, the iPad 2 is not yet supported and its jailbreak is still under development.

Head over to the dev team’s blog for more information about this untethered jailbreak. As with all jailbreak attempts, follow the directions carefully and proceed at your own risk.

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 now available from iPhone dev team originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Enduro is an old Atari game that’s now on the App Store, and it’s available as a universal version for iPhone or iPad. Personally, I don’t really remember this one (it’s a racing game that’s similar to Pole Position, though the big innovation was that you could race through different environments like fog or snow), but bigger Atari fans than myself might be excited to see that it’s now playable on iOS.

The reason why Enduro is interesting, however, is that, as Touch Arcade reports, it’s an unsanctioned port. Atari has already released several games for the iPhone, and those are all officially sponsored, presumably giving a little bit of money back to the original creators (or in most cases, whoever owns the rights to them). But for Enduro, developer Nemo has strangely been able to publish the app without the official rights to the software — it’s a completely unofficial port.

At any rate, the game’s currently available on the App Store for US$0.99. If you want to play it, you better pick it up fast. Nemo could actually go get the rights to the game to publish it — that’s exactly what the folks behind the Commodore 64 app did, and that app is now official and approved. But there may be some rough waters ahead for this one if the original Enduro IP owners get word of Nemo’s app.

TUAW’s Daily iOS App: Enduro originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Almost every day, we see people putting the iPhone 4’s camera to amazing use, but New York wedding photographer Joshua Brown took it to the next level. Using tap tap tap’s US$1.99 Camera+, Joshua created an entire photo book of a recent trip to Italy. The results are eyebrow-raising to say the least; every shot looks like it was taken with a high-end DSLR rather than the iPhone 4’s decent but decidedly consumer-level camera.

“I actually went out there to shoot a wedding in Florence, so I had my [Canon] 5D with me, but I really felt like I wanted to just relax and not haul a bunch of gear around all week,” says Joshua. “I did actually bring the 5D out a few times, but all the images that made it to the book were from the iPhone.”

You can check out some choice shots at tap tap tap’s blog, or check out a preview of the entire book here (sorry, iOS users, it’s in Flash it should work fine on the iPad or iPhone). Although it’s not going to replace my DSLR, after seeing Joshua’s shots, I’ll likely take my iPhone 4’s camera a lot more seriously than I have thus far. As an aside, if you have an iPhone 4 and are even remotely interested in taking above-average pictures with it, Camera+ is a must-have.

Photographer creates amazing photo book with iPhone and Camera+ originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ultrasn0w 1.2.3 can unlock iPhone 4, 3GS iOS 4.3.3 firmware. This UltraSn0w unlock for iOS 4.3.3 comes with older baseband supports, no new iPhone baseband. It just fixes the iOS 4.3.3 compatibility issues.

Important

• Compatible Basebands: 01.59.00 | 04.26.08 | 05.11.07 | 05.12.01 | 05.13.04 | 06.15.00
• Not-Compatible Basebands: 02.10.04 | 03.10.01 | 04.10.01 | 05.14.02 | 05.15.04 (Dev-Team is working on Downgrade Baseband method)
• iPhone 3GS (not-compatible baseband) users can upgrade to 06.15.00 baseband which is unlockable (Here is How to). Upgrading your iPhone 3GS baseband to the 06.15.00 iPad baseband hack to unlock MAY cause you to lose your GPS!

Let’s Unlock iOS 4.3.3 with UltraSn0w Unlock on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.

Unlock iPhone 4, 3GS 4.3.3 with UltraSn0w

***T-Mobile USA users please disable 3G network first. (Settings >General >Network and turn the “Enable 3G” switch to OFF.)

Your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS must already jailbroken on iOS 4.3.3. Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 guides are linked at the bottom.

Assuming that your iPhone 4 or 3GS is jailbroken on iOS 4.3.3;

1. Open the Cydia;
2. Let the Cydia Load and Update if it prompts you;
3. Go to Search tab and search for ultrasn0w and install it.
4. Installing UltraSn0w will unlock iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS iOS 4.3.3 with baseband 01.59.00 / 04.26.08 / 05.11.07 / 05.12.01 / 05.13.04 / 06.15.00. Once the installation is completed, reboot your iPhone.

Voila! You have unlocked iPhone 4.3.3 on iPhone 4 / 3GS with UltraSn0w and can use SIM from any carrier now.

How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3

• How to: Jailbreak iPhone iPhone iOS 4.3.3 with RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15
• How to: Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.3 with PwnageTool 4.3.3
• How to: Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.3 with Sn0wbreeze 2.7

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Sn0wbreeze 2.7 is out to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered. These are the steps to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, 3G and iPad. iPad 2 jailbreak is NOT out yet.

Sn0wbreeze 2.7, just like PwnageTool, creates custom iOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Sn0wbreeze 2.7 also preserves iPhone baseband so you may unlock iOS 4.3.3 with UltraSn0w later.

*** iPad and iPod Touch users are recommended to use RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 instead.

How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 with Sn0wBreeze 2.7

Step 1

Download the required stuff linked below and put them on your desktop.

• Download iOS 4.3.3 for your device.
• Download Sn0wBreeze 2.7
• Download iTunes 10.2.2 and install it.

Step 2

Run the Sn0wBreeze.exe. Hit Ok and then Close Credits button. and then hit the next button.

Step 3

Either drag & drop the iOS 4.3.3 firmware file in the given box or hit the Browse button and select the iOS 4.3.3 IPSW file for your iDevice.

Sn0wBreeze will identify the IPSW firmware file. When done, hit the next button.

Step 4

Select the Expert Mode, Hit next button, then select General and hit Next.

Step 5

**If you depend on unlock make sure Activate The iPhone [Hacktivate] option is checked/selected.

Make your desired choices, then keep hitting Next.

Step 6

Now select the Build IPSW option and hit next.

Sn0wBreeze will start building custom firmware to jailbreak your iPhone 4, 3GS, idevice. Since the building process takes several minutes to complete, you can either choose to play PacMan or stick with the Spinner.

Once Done! Hit the OK button. (Custom firmware can be found on desktop)

Step 7

Now follow the Sn0wbreeze instructions to put your iDevices into Pwned State. Sn0wBreeze instructions are important to follow because this will put iDevice into Pwned DFU state NOT the simple DFU mode.

• Hold Power + Home buttons for 10 seconds
• Now release the Power button but keep holding the Home button for 10-30 more seconds
• Your device should now be in DFU mode

Sn0wBreeze will prompt you once you’re into Pwned DFU state.

Step 8

Now open iTunes, Hold down the Shift/Option key and hit the Restore button.
Browse and select the custom firmware that we just created, from the desktop.

iTunes will start restoring iOS 4.3.3 on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch/Apple TV 2G. Once done, your iPhone, ipad or iPod Touch will be running iOS 4.3.3 jailbroken untethered.

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iOS 4.3.3 Guides

How to: Downgrade iOS 4.3.3

PwnageTool 4.3.3 is out to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered. These are the steps to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, 3G with PwnageTool 4.3.3. PwnageTool 4.3.3 jailbreak steps are same for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPod Touch 4G, 3G.

PwnageTool will preserve iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS baseband so that you can unlock with UltraSn0w later. Windows users can use Sn0wbreeze 2.7 to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, 3G.

*** No iPad 2 Support.
*** iPod Touch and iPad users are recommended to use RedSn0w 0.9.6rc15 instead.

Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 with PwnageTool 4.3.3

Step 1

• Download iOS 4.3.3
• Download PwnageTool 4.3.3
• Download iTunes 10.2.2

Step 2

Open the downloaded PwnageTool.dmg and copy the PwnageTool.app to your desktop and execute it from there;
Hit the OK button;
Now select Expert Mode from the top left side of the window;

and then select your iDevice. Hit the Next button.

Now hit the Browse for IPSW button and select iOS 4.3.3 firmware for your device (downloaded from Step 1);
On next screen, Select General and hit the Next arrow button;
iPhone users:

• Select Activate the phone option if you’re on unofficial carrier.
• Do NOT select Activate the phone option if you’re on official carrier e.g. AT&T.

Keep hitting Next button until you’re back to the same screen where you selected General.
Now Select the Build Option and Hit Next.

PwnageTool will prompt you to select a destination folder to save custom iOS 4.3.3;
PwnageTool will start building your Custom IPSW;
During the build process it’ll prompt you for your admin password.

Step 3

Once the custom IPSW has been built, PwnageTool 4.3.3 will ask you to connect your iDevice to your computer. Once your device is detected, you’ll be instructed to put your iDevice into DFU mode.

• Press and hold the power + home buttons for 10 seconds.
• Release the power button but continue holding the home button for 10 seconds.

Once the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is in DFU mode, the follow popup message will appear. iTunes will also pop-up.

Step 4

In iTunes, hold the Alt/Option key and hit Restore. From the popup window, browse to the Folder where you saved custom iOS 4.3.3 and select your custom .ipsw file that you just created and click Open Button. (Make sure you’re selecting custom firmware, Not stock one)

iTunes will now restore the firmware on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. This can take up to 10 minutes.

When done, you have successfully Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 firmware with PwnageTool 4.3.3.

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iPhone Dev-Team has just pushed the RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 to jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.3 firmware. These are the steps to jailbreak iPhone 4.3.3 with RedSn0w on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. Steps are the same for iPhone Touch 4G/3G and iPad 1.

IMPORTANT

• If you depend on UltraSn0w unlock, Stay away from RedSn0w and stock iOS 4.3.3. Use PwnageTool or Sn0wBreeze instead and preserve iPhone baseband.
• iPad 2 Jailbreak is not out yet!
• RedSn0w is available for both Windows and Mac OS X.

How to Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.3.3 with RedSn0w

Step 1

Download the required stuff:

• Download RedSn0w 0.9.6rc15
• Download iOS 4.3.3
• Download iTunes 10.2.2

Step 2

Restore iOS 4.3.3 on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and keep it connected to your computer via USB.
*You can skip this step if you’re already running iOS 4.3.3.

Step 3

Execute the Redsn0w 0.9.6rc15

Step 4

Hit the Browse button and select official iOS 4.3.3 firmware (downloaded in Step 1). RedSn0w will recognize your 4.3.3 IPSW file. Then hit Next.

Step 5

Now check mark “Install Cydia” and hit Next.

Step 6

Now make sure your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is turned OFF and Plugged in to your computer. Hit Next.

Step 7

Now you’ll be instructed to put your iDevice into DFU Mode. Follow the on screen instructions.

Once you’ve successfully entered into DFU mode, RedSn0w will start jailbreaking iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS on iOS 4.3.3 tethered. When done! your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS will be jailbroken tethered on iOS 4.3.3.

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iOS 4.3.3 Guides

How to: Downgrade iOS 4.3.3

iH8Sn0w has just released Sn0wbreeze 2.7, the iOS 4.3.3 untethered jailbreak. You can download Sn0wbreeze 2.7 from below. Sn0wbreeze 2.7 can jailbreak all iDevices including iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, 3G and iPad 1. No iPad 2 Support yet!

Sn0wBreeze 2.7 Change-log

• Now Supports iOS 4.3.3 [untethered] (except iPad 2)
• Now Supports iOS 4.2.8 [untethered] (Verizon iPhone 4 users)
• Multitasking Gestures are enabled in the Settings app as usual.
• ultrasn0w works with previous working baseband thanks to today’s update.

Download Sn0wBreeze 2.7

You can download Sn0wbreeze 2.7 for Windows from the link below:

Download Sn0wbreeze 2.7 [Mirror 1]
Download iOS 4.3.3
Download iTunes 10.2.2

Detailed step-by-step instruction will be posted shortly. Stay Tuned!

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PwnageTool 4.3.3, the untethered iOS 4.3.3 jailbreak is now available for download. You can download PwnageTool 4.3.3 from the Links below. PwnageTool 4.3.3 can jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G and Apple TV 2G. No iPad 2 support yet!

PwnageTool 4.3.3 lets you create custom iOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. PwnageTool also preserves the iPhone baseband so that you can use UltraSn0w to unlock your iPhone.

PwnageTool 4.3.3 supports

• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 1
• iPod Touch 3G
• iPod Touch 4G

* There’s no iPad 2 jailbreak out yet because it has an update BootRom.

Download PwnageTool 4.3.3

You can download PwnageTool 4.3.3 for Mac OS from the link below:

Download PwnageTool 4.3.3 [Official Torrent] [Mirror]
Download iOS 4.3.3
Download iTunes 10.2.2

Detailed step-by-step instruction will be posted shortly. Stay Tuned!

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iPhone Dev-team has just pushed the RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15, the untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 firmware. You can download RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 for Windows and Mac from the links below. RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 incorporates i0nic’s exploit to provide untethered iOS 4.3.3 jailbreak.

NOTES

1. ultrasn0w unlockers must stay away from redsn0w! Use only a custom IPSW to update to 4.3.3, to avoid updating your baseband.
2. ultrasn0w has been updated to v1.2.3 to be compatible with iOS 4.3.3 and earlier (the ultrasn0w update does not include any new baseband support!). Please reboot your iPhone using the normal “slide to power off” swipe after installing ultrasn0w 1.2.3.
3. By popular demand, redsn0w now allows you to enable multitasking gestures (although most will find it useful only on iPads).
4. iPad2 update: The iPad 2 jailbreak remains under development. As you may know, the original exploit @comex developed in the first week of the iPad2 release was mysteriously fixed by Apple within days of its development. Partly because of this, don’t expect much public discussion of the iPad2 jailbreak until it’s actually finished and ready for release (and please avoid asking about it). In all liklihood, it will be a userland exploit like the first (unreleased) one, not dependent on bootrom dumps. The first one can’t be released even for those with the original 4.3 firmware due to legal (distribution) reasons.

… three in a row! Apple released iOS 4.3.3 on Wednesday, and once again the untethered jailbreak exploit that @i0n1c created for 4.3.1 still works. That makes it an unprecedented three firmwares where the same userland exploit works. We’re not exactly sure why Apple hasn’t fixed the hole yet, but we’re not complaining!

oday’s PwnageTool and redsn0w incorporate @i0n1c’s port to 4.3.3 (it’s ironic that such a long-lasting untether doesn’t even have an official name!). It also of course uses geohot’s limera1n bootrom exploit to inject the jailbreak. The 4.3.3 untether works on all devices that actually support 4.3.3 except for the iPad2.

Supported Devices

• iPhone3GS
• iPhone4 (GSM)
• iPod touch 3G
• iPod touch 4G
• iPad1
• AppleTV2G (v4.3 8F202)

Download RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15

RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 is available for both the Windows and Mac OS X.

Download RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 (Windows)
Download RedSn0w 0.9.6RC15 (Mac)
Download iOS 4.3.3

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