LONDON (Reuters) – The Financial Times has pulled its iPad and iPhone apps from Apple’s App Store after losing a battle to keep control of customer data obtained through subscriptions.
Apple has recently begun to insist that subscriptions to apps that it hosts must go through its own store, giving Apple ownership of valuable data about customers from those transactions, as well as a 30 percent cut of revenues. Read More
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When iOS 5 finally hits the Internet this fall, it’ll include a number of cool new services from Apple. The biggest, clearly, is iTunes in the Cloud, which takes the entirety of Apple’s iTunes software and turns it into a cloud service. One portion of that – Apple’s cloud music service – is called iTunes Match. Read More
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ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software designed to help organizations embrace social networking using the broadest range of mobile devices.
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With today’s news, IBM is delivering its industry leading Connections social networking software for mobile devices. Customers can easily download the software from all major app stores including Android, Apple, and BlackBerry, and gain immediate access to blogs, employee data, status updates, wikis, as well as share files, videos and photos.
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Google Plus, or Google+, is now available for iOS in the iTunes App Store. The social networking service, in which you divide up your friends, family and acquaintances into “Circles,” has taken off in the past few weeks and has even seen defectors from Facebook. When the service launched, we said that mobile users might make or break it, and that most early adopters probably use mobile devices for social networking. Google+ has been available for Android since it launched, and now iPhone and iPad users can finally enjoy a mobile version of it, too.
Here is the iTunes description of the app:
Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.
Features:
* Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
* Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
* Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.
Google+ is only available for users 13 and older.
It sounds like most of the features you’d want from the app are available now, but it’s worth noting that this is a version 1.0 product, so we can expect other perks and features to be added later. And sorry, kids! You have to be 13 and older to use the social networking service: you can try to sign up anyway, but you wouldn’t want Google deleting all your precious memories, would you?
If you’re an iOS user with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you can download Google+ from the iTunes App Store now for free.
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RapidValue, a leading mobile application development firm, has today announced launching its iPad application development service line, to support media and publishing firms that want to publish their content on iPad. The launch timing is aligned with the launch of Apple iPad, which is an event that media and publishing firms are eagerly waiting for.
RapidValue leverages its media and publisher solution kit to enable media and publishing firms publish their content in a cost-effective and quick way. This solution enables publishing of content to other smart-mobile devices like Android and iPhone apart from the iPad. The solution also offers multiple monetization options including ad-integration and subscription based versions.
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Box.net today announced its Box App for iPad is available on the App Store. The app is a cloud content management solution that has been designed to take full advantage of iPad’s Multi-Touch interface and stunning screen. Box App for iPad enables users to access, share and interact with business content stored on Box.net.
Box.net’s cloud content management solution combines the content-centric focus of traditional content management solutions with the collaborative nature of social business software and currently helps more than 3.5 million users and more than 50,000 businesses easily share content, move company file systems online and create team workspaces. Box.net is particularly appealing to an increasingly mobile workforce that needs to access content not only from their computers, but also from a fast-growing and broad variety of mobile devices, including smartphones and the emergence of revolutionary new devices like iPad.
The Box App for iPad is available for free from the App Store on iPad.
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Just in time to address one of the most common New Year’s resolutions, doctors and computer scientists working at Boston University, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have invented a new approach to diet diaries and food journaling that works with any diet system. Their Picture Your Diet system uses mobile technology to make what used to be a tedious and time-consuming process extremely easy and therefore much more likely to succeed.
PhotoCalorie version 1.0 is available for free in the iTunes store. The application is currently being implemented on other mobile devices and you can make suggestions and sign up for the mailing list at www.PhotoCalorie.com.
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The beginning of the school season is here and it’s time for students to start hitting the books again and getting back into the swing of campus life. This year, a new application for iPhone and iPod touch called, textPlus, helps teens stay better connected with their important groups of friends and family by offering a convenient way to keep in touch: group conversation text messaging.
textPlus is easy for students to use and brings similar group messaging features to mobile devices previously found only on laptops and computers.
Once a text is sent to the members of a group, the message becomes a full group conversation. All responses are “reply all” and viewable in a chat room-like format so the entire group sees every message sent as if it were a face-to-face live conversation. Because textPlus works with any mobile phone that has regular texting capabilities, students don’t need to be textPlus users or download anything to join in their groups’ conversations.
To ensure important information and updates are never missed, textPlus also sends alert notifications so group members know when a new message has arrived. Messages sent via textPlus on the iPhone or iPod touch are unlimited & free for the owner of the app, with messaging costs sponsored by GOGII and advertisers.
The textPlus application is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch. Standard text message rates apply only when using optional notifications.
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