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The Apps Law Blog

http://www.appslawblog.com

Mobile apps, social networking apps, and the law

• Added on: Sep 17th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Joel Rothman
• Listed in: Law & Legal Technology
• Tags: iphone Palm applications blackberry facebook apps

Recent Posts

• Developers quit Apple due to legal, contract and creative frustrations

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 10:30 in google, Firefox, iphone, facebook, api, apps, android, ars technica, firebug, app store, rogue amoeba, application programming interface

  Several important apps developers are unhappy with Apple and the way the company is still exerting too much control over their App Store. Some developers are so frustrated with Apple and their stringent policies that they are completely halting i...

• Facebook ‘poke’ is nothing to joke about

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 16:34 in Tennessee, Privacy, social networking, facebook, apps, protective order, facebook poke, lawren lassiter, sumner county general sessions court

  While it may seem like an innocent act, a virtual poke on Facebook could have real-world legal implications.  A Tennessee court has held that a Facebook poke violated a protective order and is considered a communication with an opposing party. The...

• Law firm associate puts names to faces with iPhone app

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 07:18 in Microsoft, social networking, iphone, social network, LinkedIn, wall street journal, apps, aba journal, app store, cooley godward, cooley godward kronis

  A new app has been developed for the iPhone that connects people’s faces to their names by using photos from their LinkedIn accounts.  The app is called Learn That Name. It was created by Eric Koester, an associate at the law firm of Cooley ...

• Droid + Gizmo5 = Trouble for phone companies

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 11:33 in voip, Mobile Devices, broadband, internet access, skype, apps, android, droid, google voice

  Google said on Nov. 12 that it had acquired Gizmo5, a young firm that makes software for Internet telephony. According to MediaPost, Google plans to integrate Gizmo5 into Google Voice, a one-number-for-all system for linking cell, home and work pho...

• Detergent company gives Facebook photos clean look

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 19:35 in photoshop, intellectual property, facebook, apps, wisk, wisk-it, sun products corp.

  As the application industry continues to grow, a company not known for its IT prowess has decided to get into the business while the getting is good.The well-known detergent brand Wisk, which is owned by the Sun Products Corp., has created a rather...

• As virtual goods’ sales increase, so do payment and development opportunites

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 10:57 in social networking, online gaming, facebook, Mobile Devices, apps, hi5, boku, online payment, mediapost, gaia online, obopay, virtual goods

  The estimated market in the U.S. for virtual goods in 2009 is expected to double from last year, reaching $1 billion this year, according to a recent study (Mediapost, Inside Virtual Goods).  Social networking sites, online gaming sites and apps ...

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