BBC warns parents about in-app purchasing by kids
Hey we’re just hearing this from the BBC so it must be true, but it looks like some of those iPhone apps out there aimed at kids may sometimes manage to fool children into making in-game purchases using a grown-up’s credit card. We also have Apple’s response to this. Matthew is six and a fan...
iPhone escapes AT&T, has sales growth slowed?
COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s on track to deliver the iPhone on US carriers other than AT&T early next year, the latest reports claim, but at least one analyst suggests iPhone sales growth may have slowed down (while setting new records). And perha...
iPhone the brains of future motors from BMW, Mercedes
The age of future motoring is scurrying fast toward us, and it looks like the iPhone could be coming along for the ride, at least according to Mercedes and BMW, who showcased a pair of eScooters at the Paris motorshow this week, both of which use the iPhone as the sole driver interface. That’s right,...
Apple’s Flash Packager move had ‘muted’ effect – Adobe CEO
Apple’s recent move to allow applications developed using Adobe’s Flash Packager for iPhone tool for CS5 has had some effect, but only a “muted” one, claimed Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen during that company’s Q3 financial call. Adobe revenues hit $990.3 million in the quarter, up 42 percent on last year. Narayen talked up Flash mobile,...
Apple’s latest touch patent puts sensors everywhere on iPads, iPhones…
Apple creates amazing devices, sometimes you can’t help yourself and feel compelled to simply touch them, to feel their delicate electromagnetic chemistry shimmer under the contact with your skin. Almost like they’re alive. No, this isn’t now, silly, but it sure will be a hallmark of Apple’s products of the future, at least according to...
Amazon UK slashes price on Samsung’s ‘iPad-killer’
Amazon has slashed the price of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet iPad-competitor by an impressive £200 in the UK. Apple’s iPad seems set to sell in tens of millions this year, meanwhile Samsung — manufacturer of the chip used inside the Apple tablet – has now introduced its own iPad killer, the Galaxy Tab — but...
iPad is highest-scoring product ACSI has ever seen, report
Speaking of the change-everything iPad as I seem to from time-to-time AT&T has some interesting wit and repartee for us — alleging there’s already over half a million iPads on its US 3G network — meanwhile the survey results are in and the iPad is (I can feel blushes in Cupertino) the highest-scoring product a...
Apple spoke with Facebook for 18 months prior to Ping launch – no deal
Here’s news for all you socialites out there — it appears Apple and Facebook chatted for over a year before the launch of Ping, and the talks gave us … nothing. Recall when Apple boss Steve Jobs says Facebook demanded “onerous” terms? Well, shoot across to this report from Dan Frommer who tells us that...
Tablet market to triple in 2011, say memory men
Led by the Apple iPad tablets seem set to become a big big business in 2011, with flash memory shipments set to triple as a result, according to iSuppli. The analysts predict 1.7 billion Gigabytes of flash memory for tablet devices will ship next year — that’s up 296.1 percent from the 428million GB used...
Rock.app officially closed for business
You knew Rock Your iPhone was officially acquired by Cydia just over a week ago and today it’s officially done. Over. When you head to Rock.app on your jailbroken iPhone it will tell you to hit up Cydia for your themes and all.
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FaceTime not coming to many parts of the Middle East?
If Apple’s iPhone 4 promotional pages for some Middle Eastern countries are any indication, it doesn’t look like the FaceTime part of the iPhone package. For many of these countries, the image on the left turned into a Retina Display promotion while they were FaceTime images before like on the U.S. site. We’ve confirmed the...
DVR, Live TV, Guide coming to AppleTV via Rovi Corp?
Fortune reports that Rovi Corp. announced Monday (in a filing with the SEC ) that it had signed a mulityear deal giving Apple access to undisclosed portions of its TV-related intellectual properties. Rovi Corporation (the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Apple Inc. whereby Apple shall license intellectual property from the...
