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Department Of Defense Approves IOS6
17May2013
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Department Of Defense Approves IOS6

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  A report earlier this month indicated that the U.S Department of Defense was preparing to approve Apple devices running IOS6 for us on military networks. It’s now been confirmed that the department has issued official authorization for IOS6 allowing Apple products to be used more freely on their networks. The reported stated that out of more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the Defense Department only about 41,000 of those appear to be Apple products. Currently Blackberry has around 75% of military device market share however Android and Apple are now set to erode that number. Samsung Android phones using Knox, a secure function which is available on the Galaxy S4 are…

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Amazon Gives Away Millions In Coins To Lure Kindle Users
13May2013
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Amazon Gives Away Millions In Coins To Lure Kindle Users

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The celebrate the launch of its new coins Amazon is giving away “tens of millions of dollars” of the virtual currency. The hand out is going Kindle Fire users as part of its latest bid to lure IOS and Android users to the platform. The retail giant launched its new currency with the promotion that will see all Kindle Fire owners gifted with 500 Coins. The coins can be used to purchase apps and in-app items on the Kindle Fire. The new currency is aimed at increasing Kindle Fire apps buy and putting more money in the hands of developers. Revenue sharing on apps and in-app purchases will operate in…

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Home Monitoring And Control: Nest Acquires MyEnergy
08May2013
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Home Monitoring And Control: Nest Acquires MyEnergy

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The arena remote home monitoring and control is gaining momentum and that might well be accelerated by the acquistion of MyEnery by Nest. Originally called Earth, MyEnergy launched its online dashboard in 2009 as one of the first energy monitoring solutions. They  provide users with information on how much electricity, water, and natural gas they use and how much they spend on these. “Giving our customers more in-depth access and analysis of their energy usage has always been part of the Nest vision,” said Tony Fadell, Nest founder and CEO said in a released statement today. “We’ve made great strides in the past year and a half; by bringing MyEnergy into…

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More Apple Crack Downs On Discovery Apps
07May2013
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More Apple Crack Downs On Discovery Apps

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A few weeks ago we reported how discovery App AppGratis had its app removed from the Apple App store then its push messages stop to its 12 million users. This looks like it’s part of a much bigger crackdown confirmed by PocketGamer.biz after Apple began rejecting apps that feature tools for “filtering, bookmarking, searching, or sharing recommendations.” We’ve been contacted by one developer whose app discovery tool has recently been blocked by Apple because it includes such features, with App Store regulation 2.25 – which restricts apps that could be confused by consumers as app stores in their own right – cited within the reasoning. Regulation 2.25…

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“Path” Shows How to Piss Off Your App’s Users
01May2013
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“Path” Shows How to Piss Off Your App’s Users

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Could you ever imagine having an app installed on your iPhone that follows your every move, gets jealous, and stalks you when you break up? Well then meet “Path”, perhaps the creepiest social networking app in the iTunes App Store. According to an investigative report issued by The Verge, “[Path] has been getting some heat for what some users say are spammy tactics to recruit new users. Digital marketer Stephen Kenwright downloaded the app earlier this week, tried it out, uninstalled it, and went to bed. When he woke up, he found that Path had gone on a rogue mission…

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What Facebook’s Acquisition of Parse Means for Mobile Developers
30April2013
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What Facebook’s Acquisition of Parse Means for Mobile Developers

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Facebook is truly following through with their mobile-first strategy, dishing out $1 billion to snap up social photo heavy weight Instagram as well as dozens of less publicized mobile start-ups over the past few years. Now Parse, the “mobile-backend-as-a-service startup” (mBaas) which develops tools and services for mobile developers has joined the Facebook family. According to TechCrunch, the deal was valued at around $85 million. Parse offers services that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. Over 60,000 mobile apps have integrated Parse into their software…

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Poof They’re Gone, WWDC 2013 Sold Out in 2 Minutes
25April2013
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Poof They’re Gone, WWDC 2013 Sold Out in 2 Minutes

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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is the hottest tech event on earth for developers and it shows. Today when tickets went on sale at 10:00 am they were all sold out by 10:02 am. Tickets cost $1,599 and were limited to one per person. In less than 2 minutes every WWDC ticket on sale was accounted for, making Apple a clean $8 million. According to Techcrunch, “Apple’s tickets sold out 95 percent faster than Google’s tickets for its own annual I/O developer conference, which is taking place May 15 – 17 this year, and which took 49 minutes to sell out.”…

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Chinese Hackers Debut New Free iTunes App Store
19April2013
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Chinese Hackers Debut New Free iTunes App Store

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No need to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad in order to download your favorite paid iOS apps for free. According to a TUAW news report, a group of highly skilled Chinese hackers recently launched a pirated version of the iTunes app store. The marketplace enables iPad and iPhone users to download pirated iOS apps without the need to jailbreak their devices. Apparently the iOS app marketplace uses geolocation to determine a user’s location. If the user is located outside China then they are refused access to the store and are redirected to another website run by the hackers. In an…

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AppGratis Dealt Another Knockout Punch by Apple
18April2013
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AppGratis Dealt Another Knockout Punch by Apple

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In a stunning display of kicking a man while he’s down, Apple decided today to kill off AppGratis’ ability to send push notifications to their 12 million users. Earlier this month Apple stunned the iPhone app developer community by deleting AppGratis, a popular iOS app discovery platform from the iTunes app store. Existing users of the app were unaffected by the removal of the app from iTunes, but now the user experience has been hobbled by Apple revoking push notification privileges. According to a news report by TechCrunch, AppGratis has collected almost 1 million signatures to petition Apple to reinstate…

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Social App SnapChat Seeing Exponential Growth
16April2013
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Social App SnapChat Seeing Exponential Growth

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150 million pictures a day. That’s how many photos are being uploaded everyday via SnapChat, the popular social app. The company is experiencing exponential growth, leaving other social mobile apps in the dust. According to an article by GigaOM, SnapChat was seeing 20 million photos uploaded everyday in October 2012. Instagram’s user activity is small in comparison with only 40 million photos uploaded a day. The app has taken off with teenagers, growing in appeal due to the impermanence of each photo shared. 10 seconds after an image is viewed by the recipient, it’s deleted from Snapchat’s servers. SnapChat has…

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