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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FTC will continue to carefully scrutinize Apple’s actions despite its loosened policy towards third-party iOS compilers. The brouhaha started back in April when Apple announced its new terms of service for iOS 4 and included the now fateful statement: only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C…
Fresh from Mac4ever is a rumor that suggests FaceTime is coming soon to both Mac OS X and Windows. This is one of those unusual rumors that both makes sense and is questionable at the same time. The possibility of this mobile video chat client coming soon to Mac OS X is strong. Apple introduced…
Vodafone announced a restructuring plan on Thursday that will group its minority holdings into a single, but separately managed unit. This new unit will include the carrier’s minority stakes in Verizon Wireless, SFR, Polkomtel and Bharti; when combined, these holdings are worth an estimated $65 billion. With its stock prices stagnating, Vodafone is under increasing pressure…
Adobe confirmed on its blog that it will resume development of its Flash Packager for iPhone. This component is part of its Flash Professional CS5 development tool and allows developers to port their applications to the iPhone. Though a salient feature of Creative Suite 5, it was rendered useless in April when Apple banned third-party development tools in its…
Videotron, a regional operator from Quebec, Canada, launched its mobile service today with a bang. An executive VP hinted that the newly formed wireless carrier may carry the iPhone, freshly manufactured with support for the 1700MHz AWS band. The VP also suggested the same handset would land at Wind and T-Mobile. The crowning moment came…
iOS 4.1 has been in the wild for almost 24 hours and folks are reporting their good, bad or indifferent experiences with the latest version of Apple’s OS. High on the “good” list is the proximity sensor which is reportedly now fixed and working as expected for many iPhone 4 owners. The proximity sensor is…
In the press release for the T-Mobile G2, Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google, confirmed that the Android market has grown from “50 applications two years ago to more than 80,000 applications today.” This latest 80K figure is up 10,000 from the 70,000 figure announced back in July at Google’s Q2 2010 earnings…
According to Pocket-Lint, Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 at an event in NYC on October 11th and will make handsets available soon afterwards. This information comes direct from “multiple sources familiar with the matter” and from those who are “trusted figures within the industry”. Further confirming this rumor, derStandard.at is also reporting that Microsoft is…
The PR team at Qualcomm is in overdrive today after CEO Paul Jacobs inadvertently announced that its dual-core 1.5GHZ Snapdragon processor would debut in products starting in Q1 2011. The announcement came as Jacobs was delivering a presentation at IQ 2010, an event hosted by Qualcomm. In response to this exciting revelation, Qualcomm’s stock went…
Asymco, an app production studio and industry analysis advisory firm, has culled data from iTunes and created a graph that compares music downloads versus app downloads. Music downloads have climbed steadily since iTunes made its debut over five years ago and has reached a staggering 12 billion downloads per month. On average, iOS users are currently…