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iTunes Sync Brings Your iTunes Music to your PlayBook Wirelessly

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 01:18 AM PST

iTunes Sync

Daniel Bigham has been on a roll with PlayBook apps. His latest is iTunes sync which synchronizes your iTunes music collection to your PlayBook with the latest music you have purchased. RIM offers a way to do this with a wired Desktop Manager connection but now you can do it over Wi-Fi. Daniel created iTunes Sync based on the demand you all showed in the article he wrote on BerryReview previously.

Right now the app will bring your iTunes music to your PlayBook when you click the sync button but it won't sync the other way around. You can pick it up in App World here.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, November 28, 2011, 4:18 am. | iTunes Sync Brings Your iTunes Music to your PlayBook Wirelessly | Leave a comment |

Dev Claims to Have Rooted the BlackBerry PlayBook with “DingleBerry” Jailbreak

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:45 PM PST

It looks like the RIM BlackBerry Incident Response Team is not going to get much sleep this weekend. Lucas @N4BB noticed that long time hacker/dev Chris Wade has confirmed on his Twitter account that he has a confirmed that the BlackBerry PlayBook has been "rooted." In case you don't know "rooted" is slang for gaining escalated privileges on the OS level usually giving you access to the Super User "Root" account. Wade has a history of Linux ports, iPhone jbs, WinPwn, PSP exploit and other projects under his belt so I doubt he is bluffing.

Wade says that he is working on releasing an installer for anybody who wishes to perform the root exploit. This is a huge deal for RIM because it essentially means there is a security vulnerability in the PlayBook that allows you to gain root privileges. This is how Apple and Android devices are jailbroken or rooted and leads to loads more fun down the road like attempted Android ports and more.

Right now the exploit only gives you privileged access to the QNX core OS. It supports all versions of the PlayBook OS including the latest PlayBook beta OS. It currently persists across upgrades which is also interesting but is something that RIM could patch in future updates. Still this is going to let developers tear through the QNX OS and see what makes it tick in the PlayBook.

Any guesses for what comes next? Do you guys think RIM has a remote kill switch for such a scenario? Any guesses on why Chris dubbed it the DingleBerry exploit?

Credit for the original exploit discovery goes to @XPVQS and @neuralic