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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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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 admits to collecting location data but denies tracking users

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 April 2011 in News
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Apple has responded to criticism over the way the iPhone stores details of its location and copies the data to a Mac or PC.

In a statement on its website, the company said ‘Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.’ The statement added that ‘The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone. We plan to cease backing up this cache in a software update coming soon.’

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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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Apple and Samsung in legal battle

by Kenny Hemphill on 19 April 2011 in News

Apple has issued legal proceedings in California against one of its component suppliers, Samsung. The court filing on April 15 alleges that several of the company’s Android phones and tablets, including the Nexus S, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 4G, and the Galaxy Tab, infringe on Apple’s intellectual property.

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