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Apple Store may be coming to Masonville Mall in London, Ontario

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2011)

Attention, Masonville Mall in London, Ontario: You may be getting an Apple Store next year. A local radio station reports that the Eddie Bauer store in that location is closing soon due to bankruptcy, and city records say that the relevant authorities are checking out a $3 million project for ...

Shazam violates Developer Agreement, blames Jeff Rock

by Kelly Guimont (Oct 8th, 2011)

Jeff Rock happened to notice a push notification on his iPhone after installing Shazam. He checked it and it turned out to be an advertisement that had popped up. Since it didn't seem like expected behavior (push notification of an advert?), Jeff tweeted the Shazam folks to ask about it. Instead ...

Would-be iTunes competitor pending App Store approval

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 20th, 2010)

7digital, a UK-based online music store that offered the first DRM-free tracks from the four major music labels, has submitted an iPhone music store app to Apple, which is currently pending approval by Apple. The app, already available on Android and BlackBerry phones (it's the number one music ...

App Store approval limbo boxes in Briefs

by Michael Rose (Aug 27th, 2010)

There are plenty of hurdles between a good idea and App Store success; even after your killer app hits the virtual shelves, the challenges of discoverability and competitors sandbagging your app with Astroturfed bad reviews add up to plenty of headaches. Still, once past the biggest stumbling block ...

Apple's Magic Trackpad approved by FCC

by Mike Schramm (Jul 19th, 2010)

We've seen the Magic Trackpad name before, and we've even gotten a glimpse of what the device might be -- a larger, Bluetooth-enabled multitouch surface designed to bring all of the gestural and multitouch capability found on the iDevices and MacBooks to the desktop itself. Now, Engadget notes that ...

Is Apple giving Opera for iPhone the Google Voice treatment?

by TJ Luoma (Apr 8th, 2010)

When Opera Software submitted their browser to the App Store, there was a flurry of blog posts and speculation as to whether it would be approved or rejected. Fifteen days have passed since then, with neither approval nor rejection being announced. Granted, Apple has been extremely busy with the ...

iPad still pending FCC approval, not a problem

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2010)

A few of our readers have pointed out this interesting little blurb currently found down at the bottom of the iPad's specs page: This device has not yet been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, ...

Swedish developers vie for Steve Jobs's attention

by Dave Caolo (Dec 16th, 2009)

The App Store approval process has been criticized, in part, for being too slow with approval decisions. Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller recently defended the process, saying, "You and your family and friends can download applications from the store, ...

One step closer, iPhone gets approval in South Korea

by John Burke (Sep 23rd, 2009)

It looks like the iPhone is one step closer to being sold in South Korea. Apple has been trying to increase sales of the iPhone in the Asian market and has met some degree of difficulty along the way. After initially showing interest back in December, the South Korean telecommunications regulation ...

C64 emulator un-approved again

by Mike Schramm (Sep 8th, 2009)

The first thing I thought when I saw that the C64 emulator we posted about the other day still had the BASIC interpreter hidden in it was, "Well that won't last." And unfortunately for fans of software emulation on the iPhone, I was right: the software got pulled from the App Store but quick. You ...

Apple approved Gmail app for iPhone. Has hell frozen over?

by Mel Martin (Aug 10th, 2009)

TechCrunch is reporting today that an iPhone App that utilizes the Apple Push Notification system to let you know you have new Gmail is about to hit the app store. The app, called GPush, is developed by Tiverias Apps, and gives Gmail users an instant notification that new mail has arrived. iPhone ...

Apple adds queue time, contact info to iPhone developer pages

by Michael Rose (Aug 1st, 2009)

Small steps: reports from several iPhone developers indicate that Apple has showcased two key features on the Dev Center website that may improve the mood and attitude of anxious app submitters. Feature #1 is a queue status graphic (seen here), letting everyone know how long the approval wait ...

Tweetie 1.3 rejected for displaying "offensive language"

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 10th, 2009)

Update: Cooler heads appear to have prevailed, and Loren reports that Tweetie 1.3 has cleared the App Store bluenose barrier and should be showing up later tonight. We saw this hit the fan early today, hot on the tail of the AMBER Alert post. Apparently the 1.3 update to Tweetie, a popular Twitter ...

AMBER Alert appmaker not happy with submission process

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2009)

Jonathan Zdziarski, who has appeared on this pages before for other iPhone-related hijinx, has written an open letter to Apple about the AMBER Alert iPhone app he's written. Apparently he's worked in conjunction with government agencies to set up an iPhone app that can easily and quickly send ...

App Store on track to do a billion items by 2009

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2008)

You read that right -- it took the iTunes Store a few years, but as Roughly Drafted has calculated, Apple's App Store is on track, even if growth stops right now, to hit a billion apps served up by 2009. Obviously not all of those are paid apps, but by any count, that's a ton of applications ...