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Apple removes several ‘clone’ games from App Store

If you've browsed through Apple's App Store before in search for games, you're likely already aware that there's a disturbing amount of "games" in the e-store that are blatant, unapologetic rip-offs of other games on the App ... continue

iPod Touch and iPhones Get New Release Of GarageBand

iPhone and iPod Touch users can now download Apple's newest mobile version of their popular GarageBand software. The program is available in the App Store for $4.99 and iPad users who have already made the purchase can also ... continue

Half a million apps in the Apple App Store and still climbing

Every couple of months we get these bragging posts about how many apps are in the Apple App Store and how it is dominating the whole landscape; and admittedly it is pretty impressive, but really how many ... continue

Silly: Apple bans immigration game “Smuggle Truck,” becomes “Snuggle Truck”

What's more offensive? A game called "Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration" in which gameplay centers upon smuggling virtual Mexicans into the US for iPod, iPhone and iPad? Or the fact that since the app wasn't approved, it was renamed "Snuggle ... continue

Amazon Uses Steve Jobs’ Own Words Against Him In Lawsuit

Steve Jobs and the legal team at Apple want the words "apps store" to be converted for their private use to "Apps Store®," but Steve Jobs' own words may hinder that goal. Apple recently sued Amazon for opening the ... continue

Nook now supports Flash, Android 2.2, built-in email

Barnes & Noble have released a massive firmware update to their Nook Color, edging the device closer to tablet status and gaining some distinct edges over Amazon's Kindle. It's a bit interesting that while Amazon seems to be ... continue

Microsoft Mentions Amazon In Apple “App Store” Trademark Suit

The name "App Store" is generic, Apple may not think so, but let's be honest, it's a store with applications, hence an "App Store." In fact I often make the mistake of calling the Android Market the ... continue

There is making money and then there is downright greed. Apple goes for the latter.

I don't own any Apple products, and I really don't ever expect to because there isn't a product out there that I can't find a more reasonable priced version of and I don't have to worry about ... continue

Apple’s newest ban hammer: Single-station radio apps

Now that single-station radio apps have been put on the same level as fart apps the gatekeepers of the Apple App Store have begun to ban them because in the words of Apple to Jim Barcus, president ... continue

iPhone ‘Ugly Meter’ app prompts cyberbullying concerns

Another crass app that's popular with kids has hit the iTunes App Store, and this one has a bit of "cyberbullying" stigma attached to it. The app scans iPhone pictures and rates them on a scale of one ... continue

Guess who trademarked “There’s an App for That”?

Back on December 2009 it appears that Apple applied for a trademark for their famous ad tagline "There's an App for That" and word out today is that they have been granted the trademark for it. Here's that ... continue

Apple show once more it has a warped sense of what is disgusting and pornographic

Sure, news about Apple taking down, or refusing to include apps in its iPhone App Store because they are deemed as being of questionable moral standing but their newest take down borders on gatekeeper stupidity. While I am ... continue

The New York Times pulls dumbass move after getting free Apple publicity

How is it that a leading newspaper with a global reach doesn't get it. I mean here we have the New York Times competing with all the other big brand papers to establish a foothold on the ... continue

Apple clarifies App Store censorship, only indie boobs apps are banned

While any one with an iPhone regardless of age or sensibility can access the most hardcore of porn via the internet, Apple has been notoriously draconian when it comes to optimizing smut for the iPhone and iPod ... continue

Apple asserts itself and we’re all so shocked? Get over it.

It is really funny to watch all this gnashing of teeth over Apple's decision to institute a whole new set of guidelines as to what apps are copesetic or not in its App Store. I mean seriously ... continue

A WACy idea that will never survive

Apple has instilled a culture of fear within both the handset makers and the biggest wireless carriers around. I would be willing to bet that you mention App Store within earshot of any executive heading these companies ... continue

Inevitable: Jersey Shore iPhone app hits

Wait, what? That doesn't even make any sense. MTV's popular reality show Jersey Shore, which is basically The Real World with a gas-tanker full of orange tan lotion and a whole bunch of Scarface memorabilia, now has an ... continue

Mozilla promising an app store free mobile future

Coming soon to a mobile phone near you - the Firefox Mobile (otherwise known as Fennec) and with the promise, at least in Mozilla's eyes, of no more App Stores. This of course is an obvious shot ... continue

Lawsuit: iPhone app developer Storm8 stole phone numbers, user data

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that popular App Store app developer Storm8 may have bypassed safeguards in order to obtain data such as phone numbers via games downloaded over 20 million times. World War, iMobsters, Racing Live, ... continue