Posts Tagged ‘apps’

BBC’s free iPhone app no longer coming

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If you want free BBC news straight to your iPhone then it looks like the much-rumoured app won’t be released anytime soon. The corporation was planning to release free news and sports apps for the iPhone next month, but have put the idea on hold after concerns about unfair market advantage. The BBC Trust heard [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 31, 2010

Apple iPhone Apps: Fee for Upgrading to be introduced?

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Apple is showing indications that they may allow developers to charge for upgrading the Apple iPhone apps. Customers who own a previous version were allowed a discounted price but this may not be the case in the future. Minor updates on the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS are free of cost but a new major [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 7, 2010

New iPhone software 3.1.3 released by Apple

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Apple have now released an updated iPhone firmware featuring a series of bug fixes and security updates. The minor upgrade includes an improvement to the iPhone 3GS’s accuracy of the battery level indicator and fixes issues with certain third-party applications refusing to launch. The new firmware also includes five security updates. Firmware 3.1.3 is 228MB [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 4, 2010

iPhone developer has had enough over Apple app approvals

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Apple’s App Store boasts over 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads. Despite this not all of its developers are as happy and one well-respected developer decided to call it quits. Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis has citing his frustration with the App Store approval process as to why he has quit development of iPhone, [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 16, 2009

Apple iPhone now with over 100,000 apps

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Apple has now approved over 100,000 applications for its App Store, dwarfing apps offered by competitors Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, BlackBerry App World and the Nokia Ovi Store. Android Marketplace is the closest competitor in terms of number of apps with just over 10,000. Whilst only 93,118 apps are currently available, Apple has actually [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 28, 2009

iPhone app saves UK users £250,000 in two weeks!

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The 0870 iPhone application, which launched to UK users at the end of September, has so far saved its 92,000 users over £250,000 in unnecessary call charges. The application lets people look up cheaper local number alternatives to the 08 prefix national rate numbers usually associated with call centres where users can typically expect to [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 13, 2009

Roack Band coming to iPhone soon

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Electronic Arts (EA) announced on Friday that the popular console game Rock Band will be available by the end of October on Apple’s App Store. This new version, customized the iPhone and iPod Touch will include songs from the Smashing Pumpkins, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foo Fighters and Blink-182. Instead of using the hand-held peripherals found on [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 11, 2009