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The iPod touch, Apple's latest media gadget, has been on store shelves for less than a month. However, a hacker barely in his teens has claimed he's already cooked up a code called iJailbreak that will allow touch users to load their devices with third-party applications. As an added bonus, the program apparently does its job for anyone interested in freeing their media player from Apple's solitary confinement.

Whippersnapper Hacker Springs Touch From Apple Slammer

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My daughter received an iPod nano for her birthday. Two months later, it stopped working. We visited Apple's Oakridge, Calif., store to have it looked at. I must admit that based upon Apple's cool advertising and reputation as being on the cutting edge, I expected that this would not take long and that the service we would receive would be world class. I was seriously mistaken.

Apple's So-Called Geniuses Can Do Better

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A lot of people appear to think that Apple is on the wrong side of the iPhone unlocking and bricking affair and is rotten to the core. I believe they are wrong. In fact, I believe Apple to be totally blameless and well within its rights, the law and even good sense. The arguments so far have been that Apple is acting either illegally or unethically.

Don't Blame Apple for Your iBrick

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Undaunted by Apple's recent firmware update for iPhone, which renders useless iPhones that were unlocked from the AT&T network, a company that sells unlocking software says its product can now restore the bricked devices. The company, iphonesimfree, has new software that breathes life back into iPhones that were disabled two weeks ago when Apple released firmware version 1.1.1.

iPhone Hackers Flip Off Apple With Complete Brick Fix

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Apple is convinced 3 billion iTunes downloads can't be wrong. Amazon took a long look at the iTunes model and concluded there was plenty of room for improvement. Launched two weeks ago, the Amazon MP3 store aims to beat iTunes by offering lower prices and DRM-free downloads. Amazon's store offers thousands of albums priced at $8.99 or less and a million songs priced at 89 cents.

Alternatives to iTunes: Clearer, Smaller and Free