iOS

Lawmakers question Apple CEO Cook about privacy – Washington Post

The lawmakers say the practice “raises questions about whether Apple’s iOS app developer policies and practices may fall short when it comes to protecting the information of iPhone users and their contacts.” Waxman and Butterfield …

Congressmen Want Apple to Answer on Address-Book Sharing – Multichannel Online

a third-party app approved by Apple, collected address-book information from users of iOS devices without asking if they wanted to share that data. They questioned the adequacy of Apple’s application development and approval policies. “This incident raises …

Waxman, Butterfield Seek Info From Apple On Info Sharing – Broadcasting Cable

Wednesday’s letter (This incident raises questions about whether Apple’s iOS app developer policies and practices may fall short when it comes to protecting the information of iPhone users and their contacts.) comes from House Energy & Commerce Committee …

Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission – New York Times Blogs

Developers who build applications for Apple iOS and Google Android devices have access to programming code that allows them to take this information and store it on servers, often without people’s knowledge. This practice came to light last …

Appigo’s Corkulous Idea Board App Now Free for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch – YAHOO!

iCloud is a service provided by Apple to iOS users which stores Corkulous documents and wirelessly pushes them to a user’s iOS devices. Dropbox is a third party service and currently offers basic accounts free. Dropbox is available at: http://www.dropbox … Continue reading

PressReader Gets Some Love, Wins 2011 Best App Ever Award – Consumer Electronics Net

PressReader, which delivers more than 2,000 full-content newspapers from 93 countries to the most popular smartphones and tablets, was selected as the best newspaper app for Apple iOS, beating out The Daily, Flipboard, Guardian iPad Edition, NY Times …

Apple stock hits $500 milestone – Apple Insider

As first reported by AppleInsider, Apple is now worth more than rivals Microsoft and Google combined. Much of the company’s meteoric rise can be attributed to near overwhelming demand for iOS devices like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. In … Continue reading

Apple gets more new apps than Android, widens app gap – Apple Insider

Fresh data released on Tuesday suggests that the number of new apps entering the Apple App Store outpace those from the competing Google Market three to one, with developers leaning toward iOS as partly because of Android’s platform fragmentation.

Apple Strikes Back In Jailbreak-Siri Arms Race – TechCrunch

The problem, of course, is that Apple gets to decide what devices are compatible, not the users. So they’ve taken steps to undo the work that hackers and jailbreakers have done to bring Siri to older iOS devices. Today brings … Continue reading

Apple tops Android in app wars – San Francisco Gate

Google has turned Android into the most popular operating system for smart phones. And yet the platform may be losing ground to Apple’s iOS in a major area: mobile-application growth. Relative to Apple, fewer apps were created for Android in … Continue reading