With all technologies that have an interface, the Palm Pre has been reported in several cases already to be hacked. Palm is not tacking the hacking to fondly and does not want to repeat a problem that the IPhone has already had and that involves Jail Breaking. 

In reading several articles on the Internet, there are hackers are doing more than hacking the Pre, but have successfully use the Palm Pre with ITunes… ya ITunes. I wonder if Apple is happy about that? Arstechnia.com has reported that Jon Lech Johansen has been able to sync a Palm Pre with ITunes.  Mr. Johansen has a great deal of knowledge in reverse engineering ITunes software and has made possible for other devices to sync with ITunes. What is more interesting is that when the Palm Pre is attached to the computer, the reported vendor is none other than “Apple”. Isn’t the world great. So I went over in Google and searched for his company and it come up as DoubleTwist.eu. First .eu site I have come across, but back to the point, his site is professional and is well organized. Attached is a screen shot of his demo video in the workings of his software.

The fact that the Palm Pre on the list is amazing and we will have to see how Apple will react to that.

Now, within hours of the release of the Palm Pre, it has been announced by Mirror.co.uk that a hacker has already been able to great the first homebrew application. You mostly hear about this when it came to the Playstation Portable, but it caught my eye that the hacker was able to take a NASCAR application, analyze, and strip the coding to develop an application that is known by many as “Hello World”. What allowed the hacker to access the program was the use of a cheat code. Yes, a cheat code that allowed to access it’s development mode. Developers are still waiting on a Palm Pre WebOS SDK. Still, it’s an amazing feat for the hacker to accomplish this in such an extraordinary manner.

Now Rick, from PalmPreHacks.net has announced on the site forum that Palm has warned Pre Dev Wik to not post and continue supporting information on how to hack the Palm Pre when it comes to using internet tethering. Ironically, Sprint offers that all in data plan for $99, but it does not matter to the company. Sprint has said if it done, they may resort to legal actions to resort the hacking issue. Sprint is attempting to protect their bandwidth and is starting to be protective such as AT&T has with their IPhone.

It’s good to take note that all the hacking that has been so far will not stop and companies need to keep this in mind. The more you discourage it, the more you encourage the hackers and it is still easily possible to spread information all sorts of ways. Look on the bright side, hacking the IPhone has given the IPhone world free publicity and has generated interest in more than general users. Palm should attempt  to look at these issues an build on them to develop a more successful phone.

References Used For This Article:

• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/06/palm-pre-itunes-compatibility-confirmed-as-a-hack.ars
• http://www.doubletwist.eu/dt/Home/Index.dt
• http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/06/10/first-palm-pre-homebrew-app-arrives-115875-21430126/
• http://www.palmprehacks.net/palm-pre-hacks/746-palm-warns-about-pre-tethering-hack-because-sprint-wont-like.html

Anybody waiting for Windows Mobile 7 or just giving up on Microsoft overall? 6.5 is soon to be released… but assume the battle is lost

With the new IPhone 3.0 software application download, I wonder if people will overload the servers? Can’t wait to find out to get it

I wonder if palm has the ability to get off the ground. What gave apple an advantage was the common and known use of the ipod.

It looks like it will bebanother long day for microsoft who is falling behind so badly. Cheap phones is what is keeping them alive.