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Although it didn’t have its own iPhone app, WikiLeaks did have one made by developer Igor Barinov, who as far as we know is not affiliate with Julian Assange and his crew. And that app has been removed from the AppStore.
While we’re not sure it violated anything in Apple’s TOS, we do realize it was priced at $1.99 providing users to all of the WikiLeaks content, plus updates from the organization’s Twitter account. We’re talking about the controversial content that’s available free of charge, prompting us to think could this be the reason why it was banned by Jobs & Co? Unlikely – there are quite a few paid iPhone apps that are basically bundles of content from Wikipedia. So what’s the deal here? Has Apple been pushed by the U.S. government to join the likes of Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon to ban everything WikiLeaks? Personally, I don’t think that’s the case either. The truth is most likely somewhere in between – there’s nothing new in Apple’s “remove/ban that app for some reason” policy. Plus, we’re not talking about the official WikiLeaks app here, so I doubt the organization’s fans will hit apple.com. Or so we hope… 
[Via: TechCrunch]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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