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Apple targets enterprises with volume-purchase App Store plan

Posted August 19, 2011 - 10:22 am

Apple's new Volume Purchase Program targets large enterprises embracing the new mobile computing world.
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Apple-PayPal blame battle sticks Mac user with bill for 122 copies of Lion (when he only wanted one)

Posted July 28, 2011 - 10:18 am

A customer who downloaded a copy of OS X Lion get charged 122 times.
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Google Books bows to new Apple App Store rules

Posted July 26, 2011 - 9:38 am

Google's iOS Books app that was quietly removed from the Apple App Store over the weekend reappeared late Monday, fully compliant with the new App Store rules. The Google Books iOS app, introduced in December, is now in line with Apple's newly enforced rules that ban links bypassing Apple's own in-app purchase mechanism.
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Apple's new App Store rules: Minor inconveniences begin

Posted July 25, 2011 - 5:57 pm

iPhone and iPad apps from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other content sellers have become a little more inconvenient, thanks to new App Store rules from Apple.
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Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app button

Posted July 25, 2011 - 4:38 pm

Amazon today bowed to Apple's newest App Store rules, and removed a link in its iPhone and iPad Kindle apps that took customers directly to its online store.
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Analyst: Apple customers downloading more apps (and paying more, too)

Posted July 11, 2011 - 11:01 am

Apple users have an increasing appetite for applications downloaded from the App Store -- and that includes paid apps.
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Apple loses 'app store' trademark, designs U.S. trademark law out of Macs, iPhones

Posted July 7, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Apple will also get trademark control back on the term "app store" by trademarking all the letters that make it up and any word with an extraneous lower-case "i" stuck on the front.
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Breakfast links: Press-hyped HP TouchPad arrives, press says 'meh'

Posted June 30, 2011 - 8:00 am

Plus: App stores make a killing.
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Fantastic facts about Apple apps

Posted May 24, 2011 - 11:39 am

Early Tuesday morning, Apple's iTunes app store crossed a remarkable threshold: It approved its 500,000th app.
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App Store changes could level playing field

Posted April 19, 2011 - 12:52 pm

The news that Apple may have altered its ranking algorithm is rather a big deal for developers large and small, which probably explains both the current wave of hand-wringing over the rumored change as well as Apple’s reticence to discuss the matter.
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Under pressure, Time Warner drops 11 channels from iPad TV app

Posted April 1, 2011 - 6:30 am

For the second time since launching two weeks ago on the App Store, Time Warner is scaling back the number of television channels it offers subscribers via an app for their Apple iPad tablets.
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Apple should explain why it approved 'gay cure' app in first place (but don't hold your breath)

Posted March 23, 2011 - 10:46 pm

I'm reasonably certain Steve Jobs didn't personally approve the "gay cure" app that was available for download from Apple's App Store until this week. But someone did. It'd be nice if Apple explained why.
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Angry Birds maker gets $42 million in venture funding

Posted March 10, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Finnish game company that brought the world Angry Birds is getting $42 million in venture financing.
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Steve Jobs email attempts to mollify developers, clarifies little

Posted February 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm

In response to developer concerns about how extensively Apple will enforce its new subscription policy, Steve Jobs sent a one-line email. Unfortunately, it doesn't really give any real information about what apps will be affected by the policy.
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It's official: No one likes Apple subscription plan

Posted February 17, 2011 - 11:16 pm

First developers and content companies hated it. Then the media got in its shots. Now the federal government and European regulators are casting a skeptical eye toward Apple's recently announced shakedown terms of business for content providers selling their product through Apple's App Store.
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Google outmaneuvers Apple in content subscription play

Posted February 16, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Just a day after Apple announced a highly criticized content subscription plan that takes 30% of revenue from publishers selling access to their content via Apple's online store, rival Google unveiled a competing subscription service for which the search giant will only take 10% of publisher revenues.
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Using code signing to secure mobile apps

Posted February 14, 2011 - 2:51 pm

Smartphone users download billions of applications each year, and while the apps add greatly to phone functionality, the risks of buggy or malicious code threatens the user and also the integrity of networks.
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Apple, News Corp. launch iPad-only newspaper, provide no news of additional App Store subscriptions [video]

Posted February 2, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Daily, the first iPad/tablet-only newspaper, launched alongside Apple's new subscription model for publications in the App Store. While The Daily promises a lot on its own, Apple was mum about making its new subscription system available to other publications.
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Apple rejects Sony e-reader app; Is Kindle next?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 5:44 pm

Apple's decision to reject Sony's e-reader application today sparked speculation that Apple would soon yank Amazon's popular Kindle software from the App Store.
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Will Apple force ebook vendors to sell through the App Store or face eviction from the iPad, iPhone?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 3:51 pm

Apple's statement on its controversial rejection of Sony's e-reader app for the iPad (and iPhone) raises more questions and concerns about the future of other e-reader apps on its iOS platform, which could be bad timing with so many other tablets about to hit the market.
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Is Apple really out to drive content off the iPad or is Sony just making a stink?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Sony is claiming that Apple has changed its App Store policy to prevent any outside content being purchased and displayed inside apps. But is that really the case? Did Apple even make a policy change or just start enforcing an existing policy that Sony violated, causing Sony to cry foul?
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Apple tightens App Store policies, rejects Sony e-reader

Posted February 1, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Apple is proving once again that if you don't play by its rules (which appear to change on a whim) then you don't get into the iOS app store. This time the company has reportedly rejected an e-reader app from Sony because the electronics maker was not selling e-books through Apple's in-app purchase mechanism, according to The New York Times . Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all in-app purchases made through its system.
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Vast riches await (a lucky few) iPhone apps developers

Posted February 1, 2011 - 11:29 am

With more than 10 billion downloads (and counting) since opening its virtual doors in July 2008, Apple's App Store has become a source of potential riches for developers fortunate enough to create an application that catches on with the public.
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iPad Playboy app: I smudge it for the articles

Posted January 31, 2011 - 6:07 pm

First it was the Kindle in the mens room with the Times. Now it's the ipad in the grotto with Playboy. What could possibly be next?
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Google tries to close mobile apps gap with Apple

Posted January 31, 2011 - 11:23 am

Online search giant Google is in the process of assembling an in-house braintrust to crank out applications for the exploding mobile device market.
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