Techmeme: Apple Hands App Developers An Olive Branch. What About Adobe and AdMob? (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

11:10 AM ET, September 9, 2010

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Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines — The App Store℠ has revolutionized the way mobile applications are developed and distributed. With over 250,000 apps and 6.5 billion downloads, the App Store has become the world's largest mobile application platform and App Store developers …

Gizmodo:

Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines — In a surprising announcement, and after receiving countless criticisms by developers and users, Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.”

Discussion: Mashable!, TechEye, Ars Technica, MobileCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista and Boy Genius Report, Thanks:chathuraw

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: 'we don't need any more fart apps' — Apple definitely surprised us this morning by relaxing its restrictions on third-party iOS development tools and publishing its app review guidelines, but that's nothing compared to the almost shockingly blunt tone of the guidelines themselves.

Discussion: Download Squad, MacRumors, TiPb, everythingiCafe and Electricpig.co.uk

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Hands App Developers An Olive Branch. What About Adobe and AdMob? — Apple wants app developers to know that it has been listening to their grousing, and that it takes their complaints seriously. How seriously? Enough to make some changes in the way its development process works.

Discussion: Digital Daily

Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:

Search: now faster than the speed of type — Search as you type. It's a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback while searching has come up more than a few times.

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Instant Search: The Complete User's Guide

Discussion: Fortune, Computerworld, Electricpig.co.uk, PC Magazine, BetaNews, Digits and Boy Genius Report, Thanks:atul

Stephen Hood / unique hazards may exist:
Google Instant is an example of how Yahoo could have won in search

Discussion: Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, CNET News and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google Instant technology advances, not just UI changes

Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:dondodge

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Thoughts on Google Instant

Cade Metz / The Register:
Google Instant blacklists the Slutskys

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Electricpig.co.uk

Dr. Siddharth Shah / Efficient Frontier Insights:
Google Instant: Potential Implications for the Advertiser

Discussion: TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, Silicon Valley Watcher, Domain Name Wire, Inside AdWords, WebProNews and Search Engine Land

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch: Marissa Mayer On Google Instant, SEO, Ad Sales & Power Steering (TCTV)

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
No, Google Didn't Just Kill “I'm Feeling Lucky” — They Just Moved It

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Hey iPhone, Meet a Tiny Chip With Superpowers. — I can distinctly remember the day when Intel Corp. launched the Pentium processor. It was the day the desktop computing changed for me and for a lot of others. It was also the day when Intel started to put a gap between itself and all its wannabe processor rivals.

Discussion: ARM, AnandTech, The Register, Gadget Lab, dailywireless.org, Liliputing, Geek.com, Electronista, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Electronic Pulp, Inquirer, The Next Web and TechEye

Dan Goodin / The Register:

Jailbreak hole in iOS 4.1 will be hard to close — All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men ... Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Telegraph, Mashable!, Computerworld, Techland, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Phone Arena, Electronic Pulp, I4U News, Phones Review, PC World and Covering Web

Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Using New Bootrom Based Exploit Confirmed !

Discussion: Inquirer, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Gizmodo, Download Squad, Cult of Mac, TUAW, Softpedia News, Boy Genius Report, Thoughts from the Sidelines and Engadget, Thanks:mattyribbo

The Droid Guy / Android Phones, Android Tips …:

EXCLUSIVE: Verizon Dropping Google Search From All Future Androids? — We've been working on this story since yesterday in regards to the Verizon Samsung Fascinate, A Galaxy S Phone. After the Samsung Galaxy release event in late June we discovered, as the rest of you did, that Bing would be the search on the fascinate.

Discussion: DSLreports, Computerworld, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, I4U News, His and Hers Android, PhoneDog.com, AndroidGuys and Phones Review

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

When Does A Company Deserve A Fresh Ethical Start? — Zynga has been taking it on the chin from the SF Weekly the last few weeks. First there was a four part series about some stickers that Zynga's ad agency put on the streets of San Francisco - lame but not exactly Third Reicht territory.

Peter Jamison / SFWeekly:
FarmVillains — Steal someone else's game. Change its name.

Discussion: Stowe Boyd, Geek.com, Joystiq, Gizmodo, GamePolitics News and GMSV, Thanks:ceelew

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

The Google Ad That Steve Jobs Will Hate — Google sure knows how to push Steve Jobs' buttons. This advertisement for Google's new instant search system is bound to get under the Apple CEO's skin — and intensify one of the most heated rivalries in tech. — The ad combines a video …

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Imaging Insider, Thanks:courtenaybird

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

Check Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1 — Now you can put your iPhone into field test mode, which will allow to easily and precisely test your cell signal reception quality. You just need to follow these two easy steps: • First, upgrade your iPhone 4—or any iPhone—to iOS 4.1.

Discussion: App Advice, DSLreports, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, MobileContentToday, eWeek, TiPb, Covering Web, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune and TUAW, Thanks:gizmodo

David Kaplan / mocoNews:

Best Buy Adding Amazon Kindle For Expanded E-Reader Section — Best Buy is working on building out its in-store digital reading section this fall with the addition of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The retailer has already been selling Barnes & Noble's Nook and the various Sony (NYSE: SNE) Readers.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Between the Lines Blog, Business Wire, CrunchGear, jkOnTheRun, Thoughts from the Sidelines and Gearlog

Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:

For Advertisers, Location-Based Services “Blew Up Overnight” — Advertisers have long talked about the mystical possibilities of using real-time location data to target customers. The technology existed; most cell phones have a GPS receiver in case of emergency.

Rebecca O'Brien / The Daily Beast:

My Classmate Mark Zuckerberg — As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O'Brien writes about Zuckerberg's reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit. — Hollywood biopics are often the inverse of political autobiographies …

Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:

T-Mobile officially announces G2, pre-orders begin “later this month” — Early this morning, T-Mobile officially announced their first HSPA+ device, the G2. The G2 will pair “a large 3.7-inch screen with a unique hinge design that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.”

Reuters:

Google calls for pressure on Internet censors — (Reuters) - Google Inc's legal chief called for pressure on governments that censor the Internet, such as China and Turkey, arguing that their blocking access to websites not only violates human rights but unfairly restrains U.S. trade.

Discussion: Digital Daily

Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:

California testing iPads as algebra textbooks — A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads in an attempt to prove the advantages of interactive digital technologies over traditional teaching methods.

Discussion: Gearlog, Thanks:gnagesh

Ranjit Devraj / AlterNet.org:

Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants — Fears about loss of privacy and government abuse abound as India gears up to biometrically identify and number its 1.2 billion inhabitants. — Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch …

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