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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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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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Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased By 30% Over Last Year Says Google
16April2013
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Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased By 30% Over Last Year Says Google

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Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the year says a new report from Google. The report shows the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop times. Mobile web pages are now loading about 30 percent faster than a year ago but with desktops Google only found some very minor speed-ups. The statistics are based on data from Google Analytics Site Speed reports which is a widely used platform so should be representative of the Internet in general. Google attributes this speed improvement to “core infrastructure that powers the Internet; the web browsers have gotten faster; there have been quite a few LTE/4G deployments making mobile networks…

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IOS7 To Reveal Killer App Say Analysts
12April2013
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IOS7 To Reveal Killer App Say Analysts

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According to forecasts by Morgan Stanley’s analyst Katy Huberty Apple may introduce a true mobile wallet in IOS7 this summer. Dubbed a “killer app” by the analyst it is exepcted to preview preview at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple introduced Passbook in IOS6 which allows for gift vouchers and the like to pay for goods but Huberty suggest the next step will arrive in IOS7 with a full payment app. NFC (Near Field Communication) has been the expected next payment revolution for some time now but hasn’t lived up to expectations. Android, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone…

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Apple Clamping Down On App Discovery Apps
10April2013
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Apple Clamping Down On App Discovery Apps

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App discovery company AppGratis is pulled from the App store. Mobile app developers in an uproar over vague guidelines and unfair app store practices.

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Apple Still Leading The App Charge
08April2013
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Apple Still Leading The App Charge

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As an iPhone app developer in Los Angeles we were interested to see the report released today showing Apple’s App Store and Goole Play continuing to set the pace for the overall sales performance while BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Phone remain distant challengers. App sales climbed by 11% in Q1 2013 worldwide with combined downloads from the stores totally more than $13.4 billion. Some of the strongest growth was from emerging markets such as South Africa and Brazil but robust growth both in revenue terms and download volumes was seen in mature markets such as North America. At 74% Apple’s App Store accounted for the largest indexed proportion of…

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IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android
03April2013
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IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android

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According to a report by Citrix the IOS platform continues to be the preferred mobile platform in the business world. Studying business customers who uses it’s cloud-based management software Citrix found that iOS was No. 1 with 58 percent adoption in the 2012 fourth quarter. Android took second place with a 35% share followed by Windows with 7%. This is particularly interesting as we recently reported that overall Android seems to be making gains with Windows 8 Mobile also leaping in popularity. IOS made a 2% gain from the previous quarter and was the most popular platform among businesses that deal with customers one-on-one such as…

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Find My iPad App Leads Police to Thief’s Lair
02April2013
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Find My iPad App Leads Police to Thief’s Lair

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Using “Find My iPhone” app police tracked stolen iPad. Officers executed a search warrant to recover stolen goods. iPad app enables users to track lost devices.

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Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%
02April2013
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Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%

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The mobile OS market share figures are in for Kantar Worldpanel’s last quarter, and the numbers are very interesting indeed. Kantar Worldpanel is the largest consumer research mobile phone panel in the world which conducts more than 240,000 interviews per year in the U.S to assertion what people are using. The real shocks are not the Android and iOS numbers which show steady but unspectacular growth for Android and gradual but not catastrophic drops for Apple but the BlackBerry and Windows phone numbers which show dramatic changes from the same quarter a year ago. Windows Phone looks to be taking off with 52 percent growth December,…

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New Playboy iPhone App Keeps It Clean
01April2013
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New Playboy iPhone App Keeps It Clean

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The infamous playboy magazine launches its iPhone app but keeps it classy with no nudity. Apple is well known for it’s tight rules on app submissions and doesn’t allow pornographic material. Josh Schollmeyer, Playboy‘s Director of Digital Content reflects “It forces us to use our imagination to be a little bit more creative,” he says. “I tell all my photographers every picture has to be one of three things. It has to be romantic, whimsical or sexy.” iPhone users can downooad the app free from Apples’s app store but to view some of the cotent a monthly subscription costing $1.99 is required. That will buy…

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