07Feb2012
Apple warns it will crack down on App Store rank fraud services
Apple has warned App Store developers against using promotional services that seek to increase the visibility of their titles by automating sales to inflate their apps' apparent popularity or by posting phony reviews, threatening to terminate their accounts if they do. In a message posted to Apple's Developer site today titled "Adhering to Guidelines on Third-Party Marketing Services," the company noted: "Once you build a great app, you want everyone to know about it. However, when you promote
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Briefly: First Enyo-based iOS app, New Zealand trademark dispute
The first app developed for Apple's iOS using the now open-source Enyo 2.0 framework has hit the App Store, while Apple seeks to bar the trademarking of a mobile device case called the "driPhone" in New Zealand. First Enyo 2.0 iOS app Developer James Harris has launched his FlashCards To Go iPad app on Monday, and is the first iOS program written in the Enyo 2.0 framework following HP's decision to make webOS available to open-source projects, reports The Verge. In failing to find a licensee
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Third-gen iPad’s ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains
Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous "window of opportunity," in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase the company's lead in the mobile computing market. Analyst Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank said in a note to investors on Monday that the line between tablets and notebook computers is rapidly blurring as devices like the iPad become more powerful. He noted that uses for the iPad have
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Third-gen iPad’s ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains
Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous "window of opportunity," in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase the company's lead in the mobile computing market. Analyst Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank said in a note to investors on Monday that the line between tablets and notebook computers is rapidly blurring as devices like the iPad become more powerful. He noted that uses for the iPad have
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Updated UI resources in OS X 10.7.3 may hint at preparations for Mac Retina Displays
The discovery of newly-upgraded high-DPI UI elements in Mac OS X 10.7.3 has led to some speculation that Apple is continuing to lay the groundwork for high-resolution Mac displays that approach the pixel density of its Retina Displays. John Gruber of Daring Fireball on Monday pointed to a series of Twitter posts (1, 2) outing UI resources that scale to larger sizes in the latest release of Mac OS X Lion, which arrived last week. The new elements include the pointing-finger cursor in Safari, the
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Rogers, BCE rumored to already have Apple ‘iTV’ prototype in their labs
A new report claims Canadian telecoms Rogers and Bell Canada have an early version of a much-rumored Apple television set in their labs and are in negotiations with the company to enter into a partnership for the device. An anonymous source disclosed to The Globe and Mail that both Rogers and Bell "already have the product in their labs," the newspaper reported on Monday. Another source familiar with the negotiations said Apple is open to working with multiple companies for its connected TV
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iPhone’s 36% of Q4 global handset revenue accelerates industry growth
New data shows that Apple accounted for 36 percent of worldwide mobile phone revenue and 74 percent of industry EBIT in the fourth quarter of 2011, with the iPhone taking more than a quarter of the entire smartphone market. According to a report released on Thursday from research firm UBS, Apple managed to garner 36% of the handset industry's revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011 while only accounting for 9% of units sold. This is up from the company's 20% share in Q3 and is largely attributed
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29% of Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more at Amazon, but only 54% very satisfied
A new survey has revealed that 29 percent of Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more money at online retailer Amazon, but only 54 percent of them said they were very satisfied with the device. Research firm ChangeWave conducted a survey in January of over 2,600 North American consumers and learned that, on average, 20 percent of online shoppers plan to spend more money on Amazon.com in the next 90 days. Among Kindle Fire owners, which reached 6 percent of respondents, that number rose to 29
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Facebook snatches former Apple exec from Levi’s to head global marketing
As it gears up for a high-profile initial public offering, Facebook has managed to lure Rebecca Van Dyck, Apple's former senior director of worldwide marketing and advertising, away from Levi's to serve as its head of global marketing. Van Dyck is joining the social networking website to help it focus on consumer marketing, an area that the company admitted in its IPO filing that it has neglected, AdAge reported on Friday (via The Next Web). Though the news was originally reported by people
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Motorola seeking 2.25% of Apple’s sales for standard-essential patent license
Recently uncovered court documents from Motorola's legal complaints against Apple have revealed that the handset maker is seeking 2.25 percent of Apple's sales of wireless devices in exchange for a patent license covering its standard-essential intellectual property. The figure came to light as a result of a motion from Apple requesting Qualcomm's patent license agreement with Motorola, as reported by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. The Cupertino, Calif., company argued that its devices could
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