News and Rumors
Apple Moves to Block Sex From Apps
Fueled by complaints, Apple is apparently removing apps that are offering overtly sexual content.
The latest Morality Police offering from Captian Jobs, the removal of an app called “Wobble iBoobs”, an app accepted over nine months ago that has had over 970,000 people purchase it.
Here’s the email Apple sent to Wobble iBoobs developers:
The App Store [...]
3G App Download Limits Doubled
Apple, certainly in anticipation of the first shipments of iPads to leave the factory, has increased the app size allowed to be downloaded over AT&T’s 3G network.
Previously capped at 10MB, Apple is now allowing apps to reach to 20MB before requiring either your home computer or a wifi network.
While this seems like small news to [...]
Location-Based Services: Invitation to Burglars?
Twitter, Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook and Google Buzz are all the rage, allowing users to keep their adoring fans, or at least their mother informed of their latest position and activities. A new site has popped up, highlighting the dangers of being so informative. Please Rob Me is taking updates directly from foursquare and is [...]
How We Use Our Phones: Surprise it’s Facebook, and Twitter, and….
In a recently published report, Flurry, the mobile analytics company, has worked out that for every time a smart phone user opens up a mobile game they open one of the ever growing numbers of Social Networking Apps, at about a 4 to 1 clip. In fact, the way that the apps were broken down [...]
Apple’s iPhone to Save Google Buzz?
It may work out that in a week with the internet abuzz with Google Buzz bashing over privacy issues, that Apple may inadvertently save Google´s newest offering. Especially since most smart phones including 20 percent of Android phones can’t offer the same coupling of Buzz to Maps as the iPhone does.
I have been scanning the [...]
Google Paying 100M Annually for Default Search Rights?
If taken in a vacuum 100 million dollars is a tremendous amount of money.
If taken as a part of Apple’s nearly 16 billion in last quarter revenues it is simply a flash in a pan, a molehill of a mountain, or a drop of water in a lake. That said, this rumored 100M has no [...]
