When hackers are playing with your platform, you can either try to thwart them – leading to a cat & mouse situation as with Apple and the iOS jailbreakers – or you can work with them; sensibly, ...

Writing about anything Microsoft related is always sticky, as it’s all but impossible to do so without making someone unhappy. I’ve written about this fact before, but the gist is that if you write a ...

Just Schapman, who has been diligently working on a homebrew Windows Phone 7 device manager, has released a video showcasing the device manager for Windows Phone 7. You can see it in action in the ...

There have been a couple of stories making the rounds over the holiday weekend claiming that Microsoft is set to cut off the air supply of Windows Phone homebrewers by stopping the distribution of the ...

Chris Walsh, one of the main protagonists behind the rooting and subsequent jailbreaking of Windows Phone 7 devices has today released the first homebrew app for Windows Phone 7 owners, enabling the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This should be pretty exciting once it's finalized. The chaps at Windows Phone Hacker (site) have ...

A developer behind the short-lived ChevronWP7 jailbreak for Windows Phone 7 has released a hack that lets you bypass Microsoft and carriers to download WP7 updates on your own. "I don't care which ...

In the weekly update to the Windows Phone 7 update rollout, Microsoft warned against using Chris Walsh's update program, saying that it might somehow jeopardize the ability to install future updates, ...

One of the firs things we did with the Samung Focus with "Mango" (see review) was to developer-unlock the device using our AppHub account--no problems there. We were also able to sideload official ...

Last month, it emerged that Microsoft was implementing a plan to restrict systems built with newer CPUs and running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 from utilizing Windows Update. Now, a GitHub user known as ...