Jailbreaking is a term used to describe a process that will allow users to run third party software on their iPhone, iPad and iPodtouch. This then unlocks the operating system and allows the user to download many different applications from providers other than Apple, while still allowing use of iTunes and [...]

The recent ‘happy slapping’ case of a pensioner who was fatally beaten was captured on a CCTV system.  Ekram Haque, 67, was attacked in August 2009 in Tooting as he left a mosque. He died from his injuries a week later.
Leon Elcock, 16, and Hamza Lyzai, 15, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in June at the [...]

CY4OR has raised more than £2,000 in a fitting fundraiser as managing director Joel Tobias abseiled 230 feet for London’s Air Ambulance.
 
In his first abseil, Joel, 42, from Manchester, was one of 180 fundraisers to brave the 12 storey vertical descent of Canary Wharf’s Barclays building to raise funds for the charity. The helicopter’s doctors, pilots, [...]

CY4OR was instructed by Burrows Bussin last year in their case to defend a 17 year old boy (at the time of arrest) who they believed was being made a scapegoat for illegal downloading.
The defendant, Matthew Wyatt, had been accused of copyright infringement in relation to the download of albums.  Mr Wyatt was arrested three years [...]

Joel Tobias, Managing Director, and Kathleen O’Connor, Commercial Director of CY4OR are to attend LegalTech 2010 in New York next week.  The event, which is being held at the Hilton New York from 1-3 February, is the largest legal technology trade show in the industry. 
Attracting a worldwide audience, CY4OR will be meeting with key players [...]

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has recently published a Consultation Paper that includes proposals to impose a cap on the fees that can be paid from the legal aid fund to expert witnesses.  Published on 18th August 2009, the Consultation Paper ‘Legal Aid: Funding Reforms’ includes proposals on expert fees in both the civil and [...]

Is your iPhone safe from the threat of hacking?  A flaw in the Apple handset has rendered it defenceless against attack, Independent Security Evaluators has discovered.  Hackers can simply send a string of text messages to an iPhone containing just one square character.  Victims would see one text message in their inbox and not turning [...]

The Government has announced plans to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo because current legislation from Brussels does not presently cover the monitoring of these types of sites.
Again, the justification given, is the requirement to maintain National Security and track criminal gangs.
There are presently no plans to track the contents of [...]