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Lady Gaga set to release iPhone Kareoke app
Lady Gaga has teamed up with iOki to develop a new iPhone kareoke app featuring a selection of her more popular songs. The app is scheduled to drop on November 23, in conjunction with the release of her upcoming album. via TechCrunch
Continue reading...Apple removes Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book from the iTunes App Store
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Last Friday, a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf made its way onto the iTunes App Store as an e-book. Even more perplexing was that the apps icon was a front and center picture of a swastika. We wrote on the topic last week: Now how in the world did Apple’s app store review team […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects caricature app featuring bobblehead politicians
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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In the latest episode of Apple fumbling around the app store rejection process, Apple rejected an app which provided users with detailed information about members of the United States Congress because each politician’s entry was accompanied by a caricature of said politician, each drawn by talented Mad magazine illustrator Tom Richmond. Apple’s reasoning was that […]
Continue reading...Shazam set to limit free iPhone app to 5 songs per month
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Shazam, if you’re unaware, is an ultra-cool iPhone and iPod Touch app that allows users to identify songs simply by holding up their device next to a radio or whatever happens to be playing music. For someone who’s never seen the app before, a first time demonstration is always a fun thing to do, and […]
Continue reading...iPhone killer? Hardly. The Motorola Droid only capable of 256 MB of app storage
Monday, November 9, 2009
According to Androidandme, the highly praised Motorola Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM, which means that the Droid only has 256 MB of storage available for apps. That’s pretty pathetic for a phone being positioned as a true iPhone replacement. As we’ve argued before, the differences in hardware amongst competing smartphones will eventually begin to converge, […]
Continue reading...Apple allows Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book into the app store
Friday, November 6, 2009
Well this sure is surprising. Apple, which is notorious for rejecting apps that appear to poke just a little bit innocent fun at political figures like George Bush and Barack Obama, has accepted a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf as an e-book into the iTunes App Store. Even more disturbing is that the app’s […]
Continue reading...When app developers lie about their credentials
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Check out this interesting piece over at Ars Technica detailing what hopefully won’t become a growing trend – app developers lying about their credentials, and taking credit for popular apps that they never created. The Ars story details an Indian development firm called Trucid which advertised on the Rentacoder.com website that it was responsible for […]
Continue reading...Apple officially announces over 100,000 apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Apple today issued a press release announcing that there are now over 100,000 apps currently available for download in the iTunes App Store. “CUPERTINO, California—November 4, 2009—Apple® today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs return to Apple, and how Apple can survive against a swarm of Android devices
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting piece up analyzing the current battle for smartphone supremacy. Gassee, in case you’re unfamiliar, Gasse was a former Apple executive who occupied a number of high profile positions within the company during the 80’s. Before he was ousted by the Apple board in 1990, he was in charge of Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Disgraced iPhone spammer indicted on 4 counts of mail fraud
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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A shady, dishonest, and generally all-around douchebag iPhone developer who was kicked out of the iTunes App Store this past August for copyright infringement was just recently busted by the FBI for launching denial of service attacks against Yousendit.com, a website he helped found. The dumbass in question is named Khalid Shaikh, and up until […]
Continue reading...Developing for the iPhone v. developing for BlackBerry
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Toktumi has an interesting article up discussing the disadvantage RIM is faced with as it attempts to position its app world to compete with Apple’s wildly successful iTunes app store. “Having recently developed versions of our popular Line2 app for both the iPhone and Blackberry platforms, I can tell you one major reason for RIM’s […]
Continue reading...Why freelance iPhone development is becoming more popular, and easier to do
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
With well over 85,000 apps and 2 billion downloads, the iTunes App Store holds a commanding lead over every other mobile app store. In many ways, the iTunes App Store has changed the face of gaming, having forced gaming heavyweights such as Sony and Nintendo to re-evaluate their gaming strategy as it pertains to PSP […]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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