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<title><![CDATA[Apple reportedly breaks iBooks for jailbreakers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple iBooks users who jailbreak theiriPhone may find themselves locked out of their own book collection.Apple has allegedly built a jailbreak checker into iOS version 4 and above to see if someone's iPhone has been jailbroken with a hack known as greenpois0n, according to the Web site Social Apples. If the hack is found, then Apple reportedly blocks access to content in the latest version of the iBooks e-reader app.The unlucky iBooks user who reported the experience on Social Apples ran into the following error when trying to access an e-book on a jailbroken device: &quot;There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.&quot;Apple did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.But comments to the story on Social Apples revealed similar tales from other iBooks users and opened up the whole issue of whether Apple is in its rights to &quot;cripple&quot; certain functionality on jailbroken phones.Jailbreaking has always been a contentious issue between device makers such as Apple and their customers. A ruling from the U.S. Copyright Office last summer found that the mere process of jailbreaking does not violate federal copyright law, as Apple had asserted. But jailbreaking does violate the license agreement between Apple and its customers, which most jailbreakers accept as the cost of freeing up their devices.The government ruling certainly doesn't stop Apple from cooking up ways to disable jailbroken features and unauthorized apps on its iDevices. But in the case of iBooks, some of the commenters argued that Apple is preventing them from accessing e-books that they legally purchased.Technically, the point may be moot since already some hackers have developed a way around the iBooks issue through other hacks and promise that greenpois0n should soon be patched to fix the problem. But it still leaves open the question of how far Apple can and should go in its fight to stop jailbreaking, and what users can and should expect when they jailbreak their phones.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft fumbles Windows Phone 7 update]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An update released on Monday for Windows Phone 7 devices has caused issues for many users, including trouble with its installation, and some phones have been left completely nonfunctional, or &amp;''bricked.&amp;''Now Microsoft says it has found an issue with the update process, and it&amp;'s temporarily disabling the update for Samsung phones, WinRumors reports.Ironically, the update was meant to improve the updating process for Windows Phone 7 devices. It was to pave the way for a bigger update next month that would add copy-and-paste capabilities to the platform. Microsoft certainly isn&amp;'t alone with software updating snafus, but since it&amp;'s one of the first big updates for Windows Phone 7, the issues shed a negative light on the platform.Owners of the Samsung Omnia 7 and Focus phones seem to be having the most trouble. For some, the updating process merely fails midway through, but their phone is left working. For others, it completely corrupts their phone&amp;'s firmware, and goes as far to &amp;''brick&amp;'', or completely kills the phone. Microsoft has been telling users who have bricked their phones to exchange them for new ones at stores.Microsoft is apparently hard at work fixing the update&amp;'s issues and will release it again to users soon.Calling all developers: We want to write up your app for VentureBeata4a4s Mobile App Spotlight! If you have an innovative mobile app that hasna4a4t been featured on VentureBeat yet, submit it for consideration right away. The Mobile App Spotlight is sponsored by The Intel AppUp developer program.Next Story: Former Microsoft executive steps up to run Mac virtualization company Parallels Previous Story: BookRenter raises $40M for textbook rentalsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: smartphones, updates, Windows Phone 7Companies: Microsoft, Samsung          Tags: smartphones, updates, Windows Phone 7Companies: Microsoft, SamsungDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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