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<title>New bill seeks cellphone unlocking legalization in DMCA amendment</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/10/unlocking.technology.act.of.2013.to.allow.drm.circumvention/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362000484_capitalhill-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has come under attack by a newly-proposed legislation. The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 seeks to legalize the unlocking of cellphones, as well as clarifying that the DMCA should only apply in cases where circumventing digital rights management or other copyright systems will aid in copyright infringement itself....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AT&amp;T announces it will unlock smartphones at end of contract</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/08/current.us.ban.on.self.unlocking.likely.to.be.reversed/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362802983_ATT-logo-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Following a decision by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress that ruled that unlocking an iPhone without carrier permission is now illegal -- and pressure from both President Obama and the FCC to reverse the ban -- AT&amp;T has clarified its policy and will unlock customer smartphones that have completed their contract. The move requires a customer's account to be in good standing with no u...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FCC chairman Genachowski to examine cellphone unlock ban</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/01/chairman.unsure.of.what.power.the.fcc.holds.over.the.matter/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362173623_genachowski-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has weighed in on the Internet response to the expiration of the exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which now bans the unauthorized consumer unlock of cell phones. Speaking to TechCrunch, Julian Genachowski said that he believes that the ban "raises competition concerns; it raises innovation concerns" and the agency would ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Petition to legalize smartphone unlocking hits 100,000 names</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/21/white.house.to.respond.to.petition.in.near.future/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/obamaatdeskthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A petition demanding the legalization of phone unlocking has reached its threshold for a response from the White House. The 100,000-signature goal on We The People has been met with two days left to run, forcing the Obama administration to address the issue of unlocking being removed from the exceptions to the DMCA....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Unlocking phones without carrier permission illegal in US</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/28/practice.punishable.by.fines.imprisonment.for.unlocking/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1359376142_padlockthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Phone unlocking without carrier permission is now illegal in the United States. A 90-day transition period, permitting the practice after an exemption added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was reversed in October, has now run out, something that now forces customers to either ask and potentially pay carriers for unlocking services, or to buy phones that have been unlocked beforehand....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/28/practice.punishable.by.fines.imprisonment.for.unlocking/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>More Canadian carriers to unlock off-contract iPhones</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/27/bell.virgin.mobile.join.fido.rogers.telus.in.for.fee.unlocking/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1209/ip5-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Two more of Canada's larger mobile-phone carriers will now offer unlocking of the iPhone -- for a substantive fee -- joining with the largest three carriers in the country. The iPhones in question will still need to be off-contract, but can be carrier-unlocked for use in other GSM countries -- particularly the US, China, Mexico and other countries frequently visited by Canadians. This leaves only ...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/27/bell.virgin.mobile.join.fido.rogers.telus.in.for.fee.unlocking/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pricing for unlocked iPhone 5 in US, Canada revealed</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/13/starts.at.649.wont.be.available.for.us.pre.order/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1209/Apple-iPhone5-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's website has now listed the pricing for an unlocked iPhone 5, but has not yet announced a date for US availability. All three sizes of iPhone 5 will be available to be purchased outright, which gives users the freedom to use them internationally as well as sign up for prepaid service rather than obligating them to contracts. Canadian buyers will be able to pre-order the full-price model, b...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/13/starts.at.649.wont.be.available.for.us.pre.order/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SIM card hack now available to unlock iOS 4.3</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/24/hardware.hack.has.drawbacks.but.works/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1103/Gevey-iPhone4unlocksim-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A wafer-thin SIM interposer card from a company called Gevey is available which purports to unlock the (AT&amp;T model) iPhone 4 running the latest iOS 4.3 software and baseband, Gadgets DNA is reporting. The SIM, which fits alongside an actual carrier SIM card together in the tray, uses a hardware hack to make the iPhone 4 available to non-AT&amp;T GSM carriers, and supports iOS 4.0 and up along with bas...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/24/hardware.hack.has.drawbacks.but.works/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Beta unlock for iPhone 3G now available</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/02/yellowsn0w.beta.unlock.out/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0812/sctemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[As promised in December, the unofficial iPhone Dev Team has released an initial beta version of yellowsn0w, its new iPhone hack.  The code represents the first serious software effort to unlock the iPhone 3G, which has otherwise resisted any hacking beyond basic jailbreaking.  Applying the unlock currently requires the use of Cydia or Installer....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dev Team demos yellowsn0w iPhone unlock</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/22/yellowsn0w.unlock.video/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/iphone3g-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The unofficial iPhone Dev Team has released a video demonstrating its upcoming software unlock for the iPhone 3G.  Dubbed "yellowsn0w," the hack is said to be relatively simple and quick to run; after substituting an iPhone-specific SIM card for one from an unofficial carrier, users launch the appropriate app or root code, which checks for baseband vulnerability before making necessary changes.  W...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/22/yellowsn0w.unlock.video/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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