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Apple:
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 …
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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.
Jesus Diaz / 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.”
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Omar Hamoui / Google Mobile Ads Blog:
An Update on Apple's Terms of Service — Today, Apple updated their iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Unlike the previous version, these new terms ensure that Apple's developers have the choice of a variety of advertising solutions (including Google's and AdMob's) to earn money and fund their apps.
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Financial Times, CNET News, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, TiPb, Cult of Mac, SiliconANGLE and Softpedia News
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
A Taste of What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines — Apple today announced several significant changes to the iOS developer agreement, and a new document called the App Store Review Guidelines. The latter is intended as a plain-English guide …
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, CNET News, BloggingStocks, Macworld, iClarified, Erictric, TG Daily, Thoughts from the Sidelines and iPhone Alley
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Apple relents on Flash-derived iPhone, iPad apps
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Computerworld and TiPb
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Thou Shalt Not Chatroulette Or Russian Roulette: The Best Of The App Store Rules
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CNET News and VentureBeat
Ben Gomes / The Official Google Blog:
Google Instant, behind the scenes — Yesterday we introduced Google Instant, a change to make search fast and interactive by showing you results instantly as you type. With Instant we've turned search from a static HTML page into an AJAX application, just as we did with Google Maps and Gmail.
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CNET News, High Scalability, dotCULT.com and ResearchBuzz
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
SEO Is Here To Stay, It Will Never Die
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Instant Search: The Complete User's Guide
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MediaPost, Communications …, PandaLabs Blog, Google Operating System, TechEye, Search Engine Watch, Don Dodge on The Next …, Internet Evolution, Online Marketing Blog, Fortune, Computerworld and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Marcus Foster / Google Voice Blog:
Fast Access to Google Voice with Android Widgets — Mobile is all about getting super fast access to what you're looking for and Google Voice is no exception. So, today we're releasing an update to the Android app, which gives you immediate access to your Google Voice Inbox and settings via two new home screen widgets.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft: No, Bing Is NOT Powering All Verizon Android Phones — Microsoft will have Bing installed as the default search engine on a number of Verizon Android-based smartphones in the future, but it will not be the exclusive search engine for Verizon's Android phones.
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Electronista, Erictric, Android Phones … and AndroidGuys
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The Droid Guy:
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.
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TechFlash, Android Tapp, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, DSLreports, jkOnTheRun, Electronista, I4U News, MobileCrunch and GottaBeMobile
Google Mobile Blog:
Walk this way — Whether you're going for an urban hike or wandering from your hotel to find that restaurant you passed earlier, you won't have to flag down a local if you've got Google Maps for mobile 4.5 on Android. Maps already had Navigation and walking directions …
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Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Lifehacker, EuroDroid, Google Maps Mania, AndroidGuys, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web and Droid Life
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
EXCLUSIVE: Windows Phone 7 launching 11 October — Pocket-lint told launch date by multiple sources — Multiple sources?familiar?with the matter have confirmed to Pocket-lint that Microsoft will launch its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, on 11 October 2010.
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Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, IntoMobile, SlashGear, WMPoweruser.com, iThinkDifferent, Neowin.net, Obsessable, SiliconANGLE, Phone Arena, Erictric, Covering Web, DailyTech, WMExperts, GeekSmack, 901am, Network World, The Next Web, I4U News and Softpedia News, Thanks:stuartmiles
Jonny Evans's blog:
Interview: Apple's AirPlay is a big, big business — Perhaps you didn't see it, but Apple last week helped create a brand-new $15 billion business when it introduced its new AirPlay music streaming system, which it is licensing to third party developers. — AirPlay will mean anyone with an iPod …
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Geek.com, Engadget, TUAW and Electronista
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Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Forget Apple TV. AirPlay Is Apple's Sneak Attack On Television
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Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Passes Google In Time Spent On Site For First Time Ever — If Google wasn't already scared of Facebook, this ought to do the trick. — Time spent on Facebook was greater than time spent on Google sites in the U.S. in August for the first time in history, according to fresh data from comScore.
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Rackspace Pulls The Plug On ‘Burn A Koran Day’ Church's Web Site (UPDATE: Burning Cancelled) — Surely by now you've heard of the Dove World Outreach Center, the Florida church that plans to hold a “Koran burning day” on September 11, the nine year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform — There's been plenty of debate lately about whether Twitter has become “mainstream” or not, but examples continue to pile up of how the social network/microblogging platform has worked its way into our lives, to the point where it has become a form of media unto itself.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I'd Like To Punch The Carriers With — This past weekend, I wrote a post wondering if Android was surging in the U.S. market because Apple was letting it? The main thought was that by remaining exclusively tied to AT&T, Apple was driving some users to choose Android …
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TeleRead, Daring Fireball, Android Phone Fans and GottaBeMobile
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Betaworks and The Times Plan a Social News Service — Something is stirring deep within the technology incubator Betaworks: A personalized news service called News.me that is being developed in collaboration with The New York Times. — On Thursday, a cryptic placeholder for the service went live.
DigiTimes:
Apple products are a mutant virus, but PC brands will eventually find a cure, says Acer founder — Acer founder Stan Shih, in a talks with reporters on September 8, commented that Apple's strong popularity is mainly due to its products such as iPad and iPhone, and these products are like mutant viruses …
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, Unwired View, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyTech, MacDailyNews and Macsimum News
Neal Mohan / The Official Google Blog:
Display advertising: “WATCH THIS SPACE” — Last year, the travel industry—like many others—was having a difficult time. To grow its business, Hawaiian Airlines created and ran an engaging and interactive display ad campaign on the Google Display Network (comprising over a million partner websites …
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paidContent, AdExchanger.com and Media Decoder
Jerry Cain / Facebook Developer Blog:
New Like Button Features Mean More Opportunities for Liking — Since we launched social plugins in April, we've been listening to user feedback and working with developers to optimize the Like button to make it as seamless as possible for people to like content around the web and share it with their friends.
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TechCrunch and All Facebook
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
iTunes Costs Apple $1 Billion to Run — Between movies and TV episodes, books and music, and apps of all prices, Apple is swimming in profits from iTunes. But how much does it take for Apple to maintain that store? — According to app developer and industry analysis site Asymco …
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asymco, 9 to 5 Mac, Neowin.net and everythingiCafe
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Wireless call quality matters and that's bad news for AT&T, good for Verizon, Sprint — When it comes to dropped mobile calls, the wireless industry is a lot like real estate: It's all about location. — J.D. Power measured call quality in a report released Thursday and found that AT&T lags in most regions.
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Computerworld, DSLreports, FierceWireless, Gearlog and IntoMobile
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Ex-Sun Chief Gets Healthy With New Venture — Jonathan Schwartz, the former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, has put down his servers, chips and software and decided to tackle something new - health. — Rather than trying to find a spot at another mega-corporation …
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What I Couldn't Say, The Register, SiliconANGLE and ITworld.com
Nelson Minar / Nelson's Weblog:
Stop making social networks, Facebook won — Are you starting a social media company? Stop! Don't build a new social network, please. Just use Facebook. Yes, it sucks, but Facebook won. Or as a friend of mine starting a company recently told me, “we consider Facebook to be layer 7 of the Internet”.
