George Hotz, a hacker who managed to jailbreak the PS3, is now working for Facebook and it seems he will be helping the social network on its iOS app output.

This is according to SlashGear, which has figured out through various Facebook posts and a shout out in a developer podcast that GeoHot (to give him his hacking name) is now working under the tutelage of the social network.

As it hasn't been made official, it is not yet understood quite what Hotz is working on. It does look as if he will be helping out with iOS apps for the company, though.

Status update

It was revealed last week that Facebook was working on an iPad app and GeoHot has got some history with iOS, given that he was the creator of the limra1n exploit – which was the basis of the recent iOS 5 jailbreak.

In a Facebook update, Hotz pretty much confirmed he was a Facebook employee, stating that he had just come back from one of the company's hackathons.

It must have been nice for him to go to something that was to do with hacking a big corporate company, without the fear that the internet thought police were just around the corner ready to nab him.

The Official Charts Company has revealed that CDs still account for some 80 per cent of the music market, although digital album sales have now reached 10 million.

Digital sales are clearly growing, with the likes of Adele's 21 head and shoulders above its peers in gaining 600,000 downloads.

According to the OCC figures, digital record sales in the UK have risen 4.2 per cent year on year.

60k a day

"These figures amount to 59,000 digital albums a day on average this year, compared to 42,000 in the first six months of 2010," said Martin Talbot, MD of the OCC.

"It's also true, however, that we should prepare for digital albums to co-exist with physical albums for some time to come.

"But with digital accounting for just 22% of all albums sold, CD continues to be the mass market favourite."

Digital plus physical is certainly becoming a major force throughout media, with 20th Century Fox telling TechRadar last week that Blu-ray plus a digital copy was the perfect combination for movie lovers.

There is, however, a fresh threat to CD and digital download arriving from the likes of music streaming companies like Spotify.