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VoiceCentral Bringing Google Voice to the iPhone as an iPhone Web App
You might remember VoiceCentral. This was one of the several third party iPhone apps that was caught up in the tussle between Apple and Google when the former banned Google Voice applications from the App Store. It has been quite a while since then a...
Nescaline - Nintendo Emulator iPhone App Removed from App Store After Brief Appearance
For a brief couple of hours yesterday, Nintendo fans were offered a fully functional Nintendo emulator on the Apple App Store. Just as the blogosphere caught up to it, Apple realized that it was a blunder and pulled the iPhone app away from the App S...
Apple Removes 1000+ iPhone Apps from App Store Following Ratings Scam
Has it ever happened to you that you are so impressed with an iPhone app after reading through its reviews only to find after purchasing it that your own experience with the app is not even close to what the reviewers said? Folks at the iPhoneography...
iPhone App Developer Demonstrates Inherent Security Flaws On iPhone
We have recently witnessed quite a few worm attacks on jailbroken iPhones. In case you thought non-jailbroken iPhones are not vulnerable to such attacks, you could be wrong. A Swiss iPhone app developer, Nicolas Seriot claims that it is pretty easy t...
Live Stream Video Between iPhones With Knocking Live Video iPhone App
Close on the heels of the iPhone getting its first video calling service from Fring comes another app that enables live video streaming between iPhones. This iPhone app called Knocking Live Video developed by Pointy Heads Software is not only the fir...
Apple\'s Phil Schiller Says App Review Staff Is Your Friend - How Can App Approval Be Made Better?
Apple's app approval policies have been in the news quite often in recent times. While the developer community has always opposed Apple's strict and inconsistent approval policies, the noise has especially become louder after Facebook's leading iPhon...
Apple Retracts Stance After Rejecting US Senators\' Database iPhone App
Apple's public image seems to have taken quite a beating over the past one week after two prominent iPhone app developers, Rogue Amoeba and Facebook's Joe Hewitt quit over Apple's App approval policies. Another news story that could have caused furth...
Another iPhone App Developer Quits Protesting App Store Policing
Another day and yet another app developer calls it quits in protest against Apple' App Store policies. Shortly after Joe Hewitt, the lead developer at Facebook's iPhone app development team quit, today Rogue Amoeba has announced that they are followi...
Cellphone Number Harvesting Result Of Obsolete Code - Storm8 Says Lawsuit Lacks Merit
Storm8, the game app development company that was sued earlier this month by an iPhone owner who had accused the company of illegally harvesting cellphone numbers has now publicly responded to the accusation. Storm8 is the developer of popular game a...
Facebook Clarifies App Developer\'s Decision Does Not Mirror Official Position
If there were any speculations regarding Facebook's stand on Apple's app review procedures after its lead iPhone app developer quit citing Apple's approval policies, they were cleared today when the company clarified that Joe Hewitt's decision did no...
Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits To Protest Apple App Approval Procedures
The iPhone App Store has been ridiculed quite a bit in the past over their draconian as well as inconsistent approval policies. These policies of Apple claimed another victim today when Joe Hewitt, the brain behind Facebook's iPhone app announced tha...
Apple Approves Rebtel\'s iPhone App Nine Months After it was Submitted to the App Store
Nine months after it was submitted to the iPhone App Store, the iPhone app developed by Rebtel, a Stockholm based mobile VoIP service provider has finally been approved by Apple. Unlike Skype and most other VoIP applications, Rebtel is not a conventi...
EyeTV iPhone App That Allowed Users to Stream TV Live Also Via 3G Removed from the App Store
Elgato Systems, developers of some of the most popular solutions for the Mac had recently released their EyeTV iPhone app. This was an application version of the widely popular EyeTV software which helps to turn Macs into streaming live TV and also b...
Pepsi\'s \'AMP UP Before Your Score\' iPhone App Comes Under Severe Criticism
Pepsi's sneaky attempt at viral marketing has backfired. The company recently launched an iPhone app to market its AMP energy drink. Called "AMP Up Before Your Score", the iPhone app claims to help men to 'score' or in other words have a successful n...
Apple Rejects SomeEcards App For 'Ridiculing' Public Figures
Apple rejecting iPhone apps is not something new. We have covered news about a lot of them earlier. However, some rejections seem to make news either because the underlying cause behind the rejection is either vague or hypocritical. A recent case is ...
Apple Approves '0870' iPhone App After 429 Days After O2 Finally Gives Go-Ahead
An iPhone app that was submitted to the Apple App Store close to a year and a half ago for the UK iPhone users has finally been approved. It has taken 429 days to be precise for the approval to go through! And the reason - O2 and British Telecom... ...
