Following yesterday's discovery that Apple was altering how it displayed apps, music and other digital content with the name "jailbreak" in the title, the company appears to have relented.

Searching for "jailbreak" now shows the word in full, instead of offering "j*******k."

An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the change, which was spotted by The Next Web.

As mentioned yesterday, the issue was inconsistant. Some digital content that was named jailbreak, or that simply had the word in the title appeared unchanged, while others were not.

Apple's App Store Guidelines document makes no indication that the word is off limits to developers. That seven-page document does, in fact, have a section that covers metadata (which Apple specifies as app names and descriptions), but it only goes into detail about prohibiting apps with descriptions that are "not relevant to the application content and functionality."

In the case of jailbreak, the obvious connection is the practice of gaining deep system-level access using third-party software tools, something Apple considers a no-no, and warranty-voiding behavior.

Howard Schmidt, who was named cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Obama in late 2009, is retiring from public service, The White House said today.

"It has been a tremendous honor for me to have served in this role and to have worked with such dedicated and professional colleagues both in the government and private sector," Schmidt said in a statement. "We have made real progress in our efforts to better deal with the risks in cyberspace so, around the world, we can all realize the full benefits that cyberspace brings us."

Schmidt filled a spot that has been tricky during presidential administrations, partly because of a turf war between the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency for control over the nation's cybersecurity efforts. He has served in security positions at eBay and Microsoft, and has also worked for the FBI's National Drug Intelligence Center and as a special agent for the Air Force, where he set up the government's first dedicated computer forensics lab.

This wasn't his first job working on cybersecurity for the U.S. government. He was appointed in December 2001 to President Bush's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and was a deputy to former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke. Schmidt left his post in February 2003 to return to the private sector.

He will be succeeded by Michael Daniel, who worked for 17 years in the Office of Management and Budget's National Security Division and worked the past 10 years on cybersecurity as chief of the Intelligence Branch.

Schmidt plans to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle west at the end of May, spend more time with family, and look into teaching, according to The Washington Post.

"Howard brought his unmatched experience in business, defense, law enforcement, and privacy to his role as cybersecurity coordinator, and over the past three years his leadership has brought the interagency together to implement effectively the president's direction," said John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and counterterrorism. "The president and I are extremely grateful for Howard's tireless work in addressing one of the most serious national security challenges we face as a nation."

Schmidt's departure comes as lawmakers debate the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which opponents worry would allow government agencies to access American's personal information for cybersecurity and law enforcement purposes, as long as Internet and telecommunications companies agreed.

Verizon Wireless subscribers who have held onto their $30 a month unlimited data plans will soon be forced to upgrade to a new tiered offering the company plans to launch this summer, according to the website Fierce Wireless.

Speaking at the J.P Morgan Technology Media and Telecom conference, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo told investors that the company's 3G unlimited data plans that customers were allowed to hang onto last year when Verizon switched to a tiered offering will soon go away entirely. Instead, the company will migrate its existing and new 4G LTE customers to a new "data-share plan."

The company has yet to announce the details of this new plan, but it has said previously that the data-share plan will be introduced in midsummer. The plan will allow people on the same family plan to share buckets of data each month, much like they share voice minutes and text messaging. It will also allow individuals to share data across different 4G LTE devices.

Verizon eliminated its unlimited data plan for smartphone users last July, about a year after AT&T had done the same thing. Like AT&T had done previously, Verizon told its existing unlimited data plan customers that they could keep their unlimited data plans even after their contracts expired. And Verizon has allowed its 3G wireless subscribers to upgrade to 4G LTE devices, while keeping their unlimited data plans.

But the company was always careful to say that it could change this policy in the future. And now it looks like that day has finally come. The way it will likely work is that as 3G unlimited contracts expire, Verizon will push subscribers to upgrade their devices to smartphones on company's 4G LTE network. These customers will then have to sign up for the data share plans.

"Everyone will be on data share," Shammo said, according to Fierce Wireless. "When they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share. That is beneficial to us."

Verizon hasn't yet announced pricing details of the new share plans. Shammo said that he believes this new plan will make it easier for families and small businesses to connect multiple devices, Fierce reported. This new plan is meant to encourage people to buy multiple connected devices and to use them on the 4G LTE network, without signing up for an additional data plan.

As this change happens and people connect additional devices to their accounts, Shammo said that the industry will have to change how they account for the revenue. Instead of looking at average revenue per user, he said that the industry should look at average revenue per account.

News of the end of the unlimited data plan is sure to upset some consumers who have held onto their existing accounts specifically for the unlimited benefit.

AT&T also offers this benefit to long-time smartphone customers. But the company has struggled to keep up with the demands of some of these users. In an effort to ensure that "grandfathered" unlimited users don't hog the network, the company began slowing down a proportion of these heavy users. The move outraged many customers. One man sued AT&T in small claims court and won. AT&T has since changed its policy and now only slows down or throttles users if they exceed 3GB of data per month.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel still offer unlimited data plans. T-Mobile also slows down users if they consume too much data each month. But Sprint claims that is the only major wireless carrier in the U.S. to still offer unfettered unlimited data. Some people question how long the carrier will be able to offer such a plan given the steep rise in usage.

A Verizon spokeswoman declined to comment on the news.