Last week the first jailbreak tool for Windows Phone 7 handsets made an appearance. ChevronWP7, the brainchild of Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh, allowed users to sideload applications onto ...

Microsoft’s fledgling mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, managed to be live for little over a month before somebody released a jailbreak tool for the OS. Three men have just done that, as ...

Just a few days after hackers figured out how to run unauthorized desktop apps on Windows RT tablets, a hacker on the XDA Developers forum has posted a download-and-click jailbreak tool for the ...

With the first jailbreaking tool for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 being taken down, another one is on its way. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about ...

Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow for the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications. Microsoft quickly issued a statement ...

Looks like we’ll soon see a jailbreak for Windows RT. A Nicaraguan hacker has discovered a way to defeat the code signature test in RT that prevents desktop code from running. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) ...

Last week saw the release of ChevronWP7, a tool to allow development and installation of Windows Phone 7 applications on any phone, without having to go through the Microsoft approval process. The ...

Winpwn has been updated, so Windows users can jailbreak iPhones and iPod Touches running the 2.0 software. We successfully hacked an iPod Touch using a Mac and the Pwnage Tool, and judging by the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Absinthe jailbreak tool is ready to download for Windows users, iPhone Dev Team’s CLI tool is now available ...

iOS users who want to have access to their iMessages on devices that aren’t supported by Apple including Windows computers and Android smartphones can now do so with the help of a simple iOS app, ...