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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 ...

US house Reps approve net neutrality bill, reveal semblance of sanity

by David Chartier (May 26th, 2006)

We aren't out of the woods yet, but a U.S. House of Representatives panel has approved the net neutrality bill, a controversial proposal that would prohibit broadband providers from restricting access and impairing the speed of their competitors' content. Many feel this bill is crucial for market ...