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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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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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Apple iOS Given Thumbs Up by Pentagon for Security Features
01May2013
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Apple iOS Given Thumbs Up by Pentagon for Security Features

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The Pentagon gave Apple’s iOS platform a big seal of approval today, clearing the iPhone and iPad for use by Department of Defense employees. According to an article by Apple Insider, “The DoD will reportedly grant clearance for both iOS 6, Apple’s current mobile operating system, as well as iOS 5, the company’s previous-generation software. iOS 5 will be cleared for use on an “as needed” basis subject to hardware modification, while any device running iOS will be acceptable, without the need for hardware modification.” The approval process set up by the Pentagon is comprehensive and extremely difficult to pass….

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iOS7 Rumors Swirl, Predict New Look for Icons and App Design Graphics
29April2013
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iOS7 Rumors Swirl, Predict New Look for Icons and App Design Graphics

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Jony Ive, the design visionary behind the iPhone and iPod’s runaway success apparently is hard at work rolling out big changes to the iOS platform. According to Apple news site 9 to 5 Mac, “The new interface is said to be “very, very flat… the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current and past versions of iOS.” Apparently insiders are leaking information to the media. Rumor has it that the iOS7 design is similar in nature to Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Metro” UI. Apple prides itself on releasing products and software with intuitive, stylish and easy to use…

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Who’s Got the Golden Ticket? Apple Personally Inviting Developers to WWDC
26April2013
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Who’s Got the Golden Ticket? Apple Personally Inviting Developers to WWDC

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Tickets to WWDC 2013 sold out in less than two minutes, leaving thousands of eager developers despondent and morose. For a lucky few iOS developers Apple is doing the unthinkable, making personal calls to invite selected devs to the conference. According to sources at TUAW an iPhone app developer gave details of his experience, saying, “I pick up and a nice guy tells me he’s from Apple Developer Support and that they noticed that I tried to purchase a ticket today and that the transaction didn’t go through. I told him that was true. I thought the next thing out…

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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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Developers Have Been Paid $9 Billion through Apple Apple Store
24April2013
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Developers Have Been Paid $9 Billion through Apple Apple Store

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During Apple’s most recent earnings call with stockholders the company announced that they have so far paid developers more than $9 billion in revenue sharing. If you include Apple’s hefty 30% cut of all developer sales, the App Store has earned $12.8 billion in revenue since its inception. The App Store has earned the company $3.8 billion in total. According to a news report by Inside Mobile Apps, “Apple also shared that $4.5 billion of that amount was gained in the last four quarters alone. This means that Apple now pays developers over 1 billion per quarter.” The Apple App Store…

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iPad Easily Beating Android in the Tablet Wars
22April2013
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iPad Easily Beating Android in the Tablet Wars

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Chikita, a mobile advertising network just released a research report on tablet devices that confirms what most experts already expected. The iPad is wiping the floor with Android devices in the race to control the tablet market. Since December 2012 the share of time spent browsing the web via an iPad device has risen to 81.9% with Android tablet devices lagging far behind. The research report predicts that sales of tablet devices will continue to grow at an exponential pace as consumers ditch their desktop computers in favor of mobile devices that can easily come with them on the go….

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So What Does Apple Do With Your Siri Data?
19April2013
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So What Does Apple Do With Your Siri Data?

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  According to a new report on Apple’s siri privacy policy Apple can hold the data for up to two years, however the data is anonymized to ensure peoples privacy isn’t infringed. So what does happen when you hold down the button and talk to Siri? Apple generates a random number to represent the user and then associates that number with the voice files. This random number represents you on Siri’s back-end systems. It’s along similar lines to how a website generates a cookie for a user. A cookie is just a set of random digits that helps the server understand who is…

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