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Remember the kick up about Apple throwing out all content in their App Store that they defined as explicit or in Apple’s words “overtly sexual”? Well I’m not too sure why but according to an article over on gizmodo , Apple is apparently doing a u-turn and gearing up to put explicit content back.
The iconic iPhone has been available in China via China Unicom for some time now; however Apple wants their iPhone with China’s largest mobile phone carrier, China Mobile; thus according to an article over on alibaba , China Mobile and Apple are at the negotiation table and talking. Apparently China Mobile’s Chairman and CEO, Wang Jianzhou has stated that China Mobile is in talks with Apple with a view to include TD-SCDMA in the next generation of the iPhone , sources have said. TD-SCDMA is China’s home grown 3G standard and China Mobile requires the iPhone to be able to use TD-SCDMA especially as China Mobile has a 3G user base of some 3.41 million as of the end of last year.
The non-profit digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been looking at Apple’s iPhone Developer Contract with iPhone developers and have stated that there are several “troubling” clauses which paint Apple as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” reports an article over on computer world . On Tuesday the EFF published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer Licence Agreement which they gained from NASA via a freedom of Information Act request.
It the “objectionable content” cull of iPhone applications from the App Store, due to an unknown quantity of women having a moan about women being degraded by iPhone apps which show a little flesh, it appears that the latest iPhone app to fall under this piety hammer is the SuicideGirls app. The guys over at gizmodo say that SuicideGirls empowers women and thus its removal seem questionable at the least. The SuicideGirls app for iPhone shows women in their underwear when the iPhone is tilted, much like one can get on those novelty heat up cuts or tilting pens
It appears battle lines are being drawn up by twelve of the world’s leading mobile phone operators to form an alliance that is to strike out against Apple and their domination of the mobile phone applications arena which will bring a war of the apps to the mobile space. According to an article over on the Times Online , AT&T, Telefonica, Orange and another nine operators will forge the alliance with a view to building an open tech platform which will produce apps to all mobile phone users. The word is jointly the alliance will have a customer base of in excess of 2 billion.
We have rather an unusual iPhone video for your viewing pleasure today, which simply uses the power of the orange, and no not the carrier but the fruit variety, to power up an iPhone handset.
Apple’s stranglehold over what can be used and can’t be used in their iTunes App Store is getting a firmer grip of the words it allows. Apple has already censored the use of words such as ‘booty’ and boobs, and now they have taken a dislike to the word Android
British microchip designer, ARM Holdings has outperformed the weak semiconductor industry mainly due to the growing popularity of such smartphones as the iconic Apple iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. ARM has announced annual revenues have slid some 10% to £305 million while pre-tax annual profits dropped some 4% to £97 million reports an article over on the Times Online . However, these figures were higher than expected and outstripped a 20% fall in worldwide demand for all semiconductors, and in Q4 ARM sold a huge 1.3 billion chip which is the highest number ever ion a quarter.
An iPhone application which incorporates speeches from Italian wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini has been condemned by a US based group of Holocaust survivors who say the iPhone app is “an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism,” reports an article on the AFP . The VP pf the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, Elan Steinberg has said that the iPhone app is a disgrace and a surrender to crass commercialism, and that they are protesting to Apple as they are responsible. Luigi Marino, the creator of ‘iMussolini for the iPhone’ says Italians are downloading the app at a rate of 1000 per day and it features video, text and audio of Mussolini’s speechs, and is reportedly the best-selling iPhone app on Italy’s iTunes App Store.
Apple seems to be doing the old switch-a-roo with VoIP and the iPhone, as most know VoIP on the iPhone was relegated to the realms of WiFi only never to be allowed on the 3G waves, but now a press release by iCall states that Apple has now undated the iPhone SDK to allow VoIP over 3G reports apple insider . As you probably know some time ago Apple played nice with AT&T wants by prohibiting VoIP type apps like the much used Skype from utilising carrier’s 3G networks, which led to calls of violating of federal net neutrality protection by internet advocacy group Free Press. Whatever the reason, Apple has now allowing iCall for iPhone to do the VoIP over 3G thing, and Arlo Gilbert, iCall CEO says he applauds Apple’s decision to allow iCall to move beyond WiFi and onto 3G
When a couple of mobile carriers go at it on price, it is the customer who usually benefits, and currently it appears that customers with Verizon Wireless and AT&T will be benefiting for what an article over on katonda calls a price war. The other day Verizon Wireless announced they were lowering their monthly calling plans from the previous $100 down to $69.99 and also announced a nationwide unlimited talk and text plan for $89.99.