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Pinger's Textfree delivers billionth free text message

by Aron Trimble (Feb 17th, 2010)

Among the many methods available for getting around AT&T's stronghold on text messaging and the exorbitant rates associated therein stands a giant in the form of an iPhone application. Pinger's wildly popular app "Textfree" puts the power back in the hands of users by creating a simple and ...

Distinctions without differences: Apple's inconsistent app store rejection policies

by Sang Tang (Aug 22nd, 2009)

I admit, I was one of those to pile on ol' Ma Bell as the culprit for keeping the Google Voice app (don't I wish that was a real iTunes link) off the App Store. Restrictions on Skype and the SlingPlayer app on the iPhone had conditioned me to believe that the "game changing" iPhone had, well, a ...