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New iPad mag goes live

by Adam Banks on 5 July 2011 in News

In a move shamelessly plugged on the website of its sister magazine MacUser, Dennis Publishing has launched Padder, a new magazine on and about the iPad. Edited by long-time MacUser contributor Chris Brennan, the new mag has been designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad and features app and accessory reviews, how-tos, witty [...]

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Apple changes its mind on in-app content subscriptions

by Kenny Hemphill on 9 June 2011 in News

Apple has made a significant change to its in-app subscription rules just a week before the deadline for compliance.

The change allows app publishers to offer subscriptions to app content outside of the app at any price they choose, without having to offer the dame deal within the app.

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Post PC era off to a sluggish start, figures suggest

by Kenny Hemphill on 18 May 2011 in News

The much heralded post-PC era may take quite a while to arrive, if new research from Nielsen is accurate. The report, presented today at the paidContent Mobile conference, shows that fewer than 5% of people in the US own a tablet.

By comparison, 36% of respondents in the Nielsen study said that they owned a smartphone, and 13% owned a media player. In addition to relatively low penetration levels, the tablet market is also growing more slowly than some other markets. The number of e-books owned, for example, tripled in the year between Q1 2010 and Q1 2011.

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Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 update to limit location tracking

by Kenny Hemphill on 5 May 2011 in News

Apple has made available the promised update to iOS which limits the extent to which an iPhone or iPad 3G stores location data.

The updates reduces the amount of data which is cached to one week, and the data file is no longer synchronised with a Mac or PC when the device is connected. When Location Services is switched off the cache is cleared and no new data is collected.

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Apple and Google to attend Senate hearing on mobile privacy

by Kenny Hemphill on 26 April 2011 in News

Apple and Google will answer questions about the way their mobile operating systems collect user data at a Senate sub-committee hearing on 10 May. Entitled ‘Protecting Your Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy,’ the meeting will be chaired by Democratic senator, Al Franken.

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Apple announces record sales and profits…again

by Kenny Hemphill on 21 April 2011 in News

Apple has announced that it made $5.99 billion in its fiscal second quarter, which ended on 26 March. That’s an increase of 95% on the previous year. It recorded record revenue for the quarter, of $24.67 billion, an increase of 83% on the previous year.

Contributing to the record figures were Mac sales of 3.76 million, up 28% year-on-year, and iPhone sales of 18.65 million, more than double the sales of a year ago. iPad sales were 4.7m for the quarter, down on the previous quarter due to difficulties supplying enough iPad 2 units to meet demand. iPod sales were 17% down on last year, at just over nine million.

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