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Classic Elite, Interplay titles coming to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Oct 31st, 2011)

Touch Arcade has some good and bad news for fans of classic PC RPGs out there. The bad news is that the expected Elite Collection (which was set to come out last week and round up some of old developer Elite Systems' best games on iOS, has been delayed due to some rights issues. One of the ...

No Comment: Washington State borrows Bodega's icon, with a tweak

by Mike Schramm (Jul 16th, 2011)

Eagle-eyed reader Jeff spotted this icon in use over on the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries website, and it looked a little familiar to him, as a user of a certain unofficial Mac App Store app that has been around even before Apple's software distribution solution. Minus the ...

CBS forces developer to pull DiagnosticPADD app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 15th, 2011)

CBS is using trademark and copyright violations to force the removal of a Star Trek-themed diagnostic application from the App Store. DiagnosticPADD uses an interface similar to the fictional computer operating system showcased in select Star Trek series to display details such as IP address, ...

BBC: Soviet-era films being sold illegally on iTunes

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 31st, 2011)

The BBC has reported that several Soviet-era films are being sold illegally through the App Store. The copyright holders of Russian-made films, including Gentlemen of Fortune, Assa, The Diamond Arm, Kin-dza-dza and Cheburashka, have said they have not given consent for their films to be sold on the ...

Grab your iOS version of VLC now... it may be gone soon

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 31st, 2010)

Based on the latest comments from VLC media player lead developer Rémi Denis-Courmont, it seems likely that the iOS version of the app probably won't be available much longer. Denis-Courmont claims that Apple is violating the GNU public license (GPL) under which VLC is released by applying ...

Extra! Extra! app may be scraping news museum's feed of front pages

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 27th, 2010)

TUAW came across the US$3.99 app Extra! Extra! when developer Finbarr Brady solicited a review. Extra! Extra! bills itself as an app that will supply you with the daily front pages of more than 800 newspapers from around the globe. This sounded suspiciously similar to one of the features on the ...

Apple and Psystar still battling in court

by Steven Sande (Jul 13th, 2010)

Like a league of zombies that just won't go away, Mac clone maker Psystar just keeps coming back for more punishment. In the most recent chapter of this ongoing courtroom drama, Psystar filed an Opening Brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in its request for an appeal to the permanent ...

Apple rejecting apps with "Pad" in the title

by Dave Caolo (Apr 9th, 2010)

Apple is extremely protective of its trademarks, and has begun rejecting App Store submissions with "Pad" in the main title. 9to5 Mac notes that Jesse Waites, the developer behind ContactPad, has recently had an update for his app rejected because of its name (note that ContactPad is currently ...

Apple, Psystar reach partial settlement

by Lauren Hirsch (Dec 1st, 2009)

Details are still sketchy, but apparently Apple and Psystar have reached partial settlement in the ongoing saga between the two companies. It appears that in return for paying Apple unspecified damages on its copyright claims (most of which were ruled in Apple's favor in a summary judgment motion ...

Psystar dealt crushing blow in ongoing legal proceedings with Apple

by Lauren Hirsch (Nov 14th, 2009)

Yesterday, Judge William Alsup, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, dealt Psystar a crushing blow in its ongoing litigation with Apple over whether or not Psystar could market and sell non-Apple computers running modified copies of Apple's operating system. If ...

Psystar, Apple file motions for summary judgment

by Lauren Hirsch (Oct 14th, 2009)

Apple and Psystar have been embroiled in litigation for quite a while now. At the core of the dispute: Psystar modifies Apple's operating system software so that it can run on its clone machines. It then sells its computers with Mac OS installed to, well, anybody who wants one. As you can imagine, ...

Apple rejects µTorrent controller iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Sep 2nd, 2009)

We've talked before about ways to control a BitTorrent client from the iPhone, and some unofficial developers have gotten it working in a jailbroken way. But apparently that's as far as we'll get -- µMonitor, a little iPhone app to control µTorrent (a popular BitTorrent app that I use ...

App Store rejections tied to third party rights infringements

by Erica Sadun (Aug 5th, 2009)

See update from Apple PR at the bottom of the post. Despite what at least one developer was told, the ebook category is not 'banned from the store.' Apple recently invited a great deal of criticism after it rejected Google's Google Voice application from App Store. At the same time, it pulled ...

Apple says jailbreaking is illegal

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2009)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the news that Apple has filed comments with the US Copyright Office stating that the act of jailbreaking your iPhone is a copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, and therefore illegal. The EFF says that Apple is claiming that jailbreak apps still ...

Psystar wins a battle, legal war just getting started

by Robert Palmer (Feb 9th, 2009)

Previously in the Apple-Psystar legal battle, the clone maker amended its countersuit to charge that Apple was unfairly leveraging its copyright by binding Mac OS X to Mac hardware. On Friday, the federal judge assigned to the case ruled that the amendment will be heard by the court, a small ...