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BlackBerry avrà il suo App Store

RIM ha confermato l'intenzione di aprire al più presto una sorta di piattaforma online per la distribuzione del... more

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iPhone game developer makes £135K from App Store in two months

Or for you Americans, a whopping $250K. If you've bought the game Trism on an iPhone, your £2.99 ($4.99) has helped... more

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Another iPhone application slashed from App Store

There’s a serial killer on the loose, and he’s picking off iPhone applications one by one. The Machiavellian criminal has already done away with NetShare, Box Office, and and I Am Rich—now he’s set his sights on an application near and dear to his own heart: Slasher. The application in question has vanished; its last known whereabouts place it squarely in the vicinity of the App Store, the same place the other three missing applications were last seen.

Perhaps the killer in question—whose name, reliable police informants tell us rhymes with Snapple—merely intends to throw us off the scent with this latest Dexter-inspired move. For Slasher was nothing other than a free application that would display an image of a knife and play a “horror” sound when the user made a stabbing motion with the phone.

Developer Josef W. Wankerl lamented his app’s disappearance, fearing the worst. While authorities initially gave him no indication of why Slasher might have been targeted by the killer, they later told him that the application’s content could be considered “objectionable”, citing a little known regulation that reads:

Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.

Of course, this raises more questions than it answers. For example, if Slasher’s content was so objectionable, what was it doing in the App Store in the first place? And with such a broad motive, how can the killer be tracked down? Especially when his methods could be deemed almost arbitrary.

For his part, Wankerl is out for justice. He’s appealed to the authorities to explain precisely what part of Slasher is “objectionable.” Could that blow this case wide open? Might we at last discover where NetShare, BoxOffice, and I Am Rich are buried? Or will we only be left with more questions about this mysterious killer’s motives?

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3 months ago

iPhone apps: why we still need the iPhone app black market

A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps. It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers. But many of the... more

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4 months ago

Got an iPhone? Make it Current!

Since the launch of the iPhone, and the crazy cool App Store, we've been fielding questions like, "Hey, where's the... more

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4 months ago

Current TV iPhone Application?

As an avid iPhone user and Current TV watcher and producer, I think it would be insanely cool if there was a Current TV native app... more

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4 months ago

All Things iPhone

A great resourse/tutorial site on making things more iPhone friendly

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4 months ago

Top 10 Requests for CDC iPhone App (in no particular order)

1. The ability to post images, video, articles that I find while browsing iPhone's Safari browser and with a click of a button, "Make It Current". It may not be possible to physically add this button to Safari, so the only way I can imagine this being done is opening the current.com app, typing in the URL of the video/article/image and clicking "Make Current". This would be a lot of work to memorize or write down the URL path. (unless a copy/paste feature from Safari to the CDC app happens) Although copy/paste on the iPhone would make A LOT of Apps more useful.

2. The ability to watch all videos that are on current.com. It wouldn't be too difficult to take all of our Pods and export them into a iPhone friendly format, but would be tougher to do for viewer-uploaded clips that are in Flash or from a webcam. If we had the technology to take any clip from CDC and automatically transcode it on the fly for the iPhone would be awesome.

3. As many features from the regular CDC site like checking out the TV schedule, suggesting articles to friends, voting up and down submissions.

4. an interface that is user-friendly for the small iPhone screen. (big text, easy to touch buttons, limited gfx (banners, ads, backgrounds that will take longer to load on 3G and EDGE)

5. using GPS location services, find out what area I'm in and display articles/videos/images that are "Current" in this area. This would be AWESOME. (a feature similar to this on our regular site where the user types in their zip code and has a section of CDC for local news)

6. The ability to bookmark/Favorite CDC content that i like and would like to access in the future without having to search for it

7. Poll of the day! I love polls.

8. Obviously the ability to leave comments would be nice.

9. A mini "best-of" pod for people who don't have time to watch several pods on their phone (maybe while on the bus or on their lunch break) A 5 minute pod that shows highlights from infoMania, supernews, Fix, pods? Update this on a daily/weekly basis.

10. The ability to take a picture with your iPhone and upload it to current.com. (although there should be a reason to upload a photo - don't want CDC to be filled with crappy cell phone pics) Maybe if there was a CDC Group of "Show us your car" or "live from Macworld 2009" (where any first hand photos/experiences would be VERY "Current" and interesting to the current community)

That's my list, how about yours?1. The ability to post images, video, articles that I find while browsing iPhone's Safari browser and with a click of a... more