Apple has just cleared the half-billion mark* for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps available in the app store. Whoa, whoa, whoa—asterisk?!
That’s half a billion apps that Apple has approved since the App Store launched back in July of 2008, though, as Fortune points out, “Through attrition, replacement and withdrawal, [the] number …
Congratulations! You’re the owner of one of those new iPad things. You may have even heard of them here on Techland.
Now if you happen to work in an ultra productive, never-not-working office like we do at TIME Magazine, it’d probably be in your career’s best interest to get a leg up on your coworkers wherever you can.
“But how?” …
Silly Amazon, “App Store” isn’t a generic term, and besides, you’re no App Store—so said Apple in a filing yesterday to a California federal court. Apple’s squaring off with Amazon over the latter’s use of the phrase “Appstore” (one word, no spaces) on its Android apps page.
In fact Cupertino sued the mega e-tailer …
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column this week is about using smartphones as universal remote controls–and especially about using Peel, a neat software-and-hardware package that turns an iPhone into an uncommonly slick TV remote. As we move towards an era in which just about everybody has a smart phone on his or her person at all …
No nudity in the App Store, says Apple. Them’s the rules. So it’s been hard for an app from the likes of Playboy to make much progress on that front.
Playboy does have an app, mind you, but there’s no nudity. Not that there needs to be nudity! There’s almost nudity, like suggestive photos of near nud—you know what? Let’s move on. …
If those whacky radicals are right, and May 21st really will spell the end of the world as we know it (NewsFeed helped out with some of the number crunching), you’re going to want to “live every moment like it’s your last.” I think Martin Luther King said that. So we should.
The inventors of the Rapture Detector (not to be confused …
Android users jealous of Apple’s magazine apps can breathe a sigh of relief today, as Next Issue Media – a consortium of publishers, including Time Inc., News Corp. and Hearst – launches its first seven magazines for the mobile OS.
The magazines –Esquire, Fitness, Fortune, The New Yorker, Parents, Popular Mechanics and Time – will be …
The successful launch of Conde Nast’s New Yorker app last week – it became “the top-grossing app for most of the week,” according to an internal memo from Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg – has apparently emboldened the company to aggressively expand their app offerings. Yesterday saw the launch of digital versions of four more …
Follow-up: Google Patches Up Security Hole Affecting Most Android Phones
Whuh oh. Researchers in Germany have found that most Android phones contain a dangerous security hole that, if exploited, would allow someone to access your accounts for certain Google services.
According to The Register:
“The weakness stems from the improper
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Unless you own one of the five phones that support Netflix’s new Android app, Thursday’s announcement was worthless.
But thanks to some clever folks on Reddit, Netflix’s petty device restrictions needn’t apply. With a rooted Android smartphone, you can trick Netflix into thinking your device is approved for streaming video. It’s not a …