Path's high-profile iPhone privacy blunder earned app founder Dave Morin a sudden grilling in front of Apple CEO Tim Cook and his exec team, it's been revealed, though sources suggest the App Store approvals process may be less stringent than assumed. Cook demanded the meeting after the Path debacle - in which it was revealed that the app uploaded each user's entire address book to the Path servers - went public, Bloomberg's sources say.
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Path CEO got angry Apple audience after privacy blunder
Pinterest iPad app coming soon amid website redesign
We've recently reviewed the iPhone application for the newly vastly popular social sharing website Pinterest, now we've got word straight from the source that the iPad edition is coming soon. This application would take the image-based platform and place it on the most popular gadget in recent memory, the most popular tablet computer on earth, and Apple's newest release - coming out this Friday for those of you keeping track. Today Pinterest's co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann spoke at South by Southwest's Interactive conference letting the world know how humbling this whole recent explosion of interest in the project has been.
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Infinity Blade: Dungeons trailer tells of Diablo excellence
The iPad and iPhone loving sword-fighting series has a next generation coming in Infinity Blade: Dungeons, and the trailer has been released. This next level fabulous monster of a game will take what we know of the Infinity Blade series and turn it on its head not only with a prologue to the 2 games already released, not just with a character wielding what looks to be a cosmic lolly pop, but with a whole different world of gameplay as well. This chapter looks to be just as epic as the last, and will be out for iOS exclusively soon!
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iPhoto for iOS Review
The photography application originally only available on Apple’s desktop operating system OS X is now up for download for iOS devices as well: iPhoto, completely re-imagined for mobile! This new application has been released alongside updates for the other two iLife applications iMovie and GarageBand and offers up an interface and functionality made to take full advantage of your multi-touch interfaces and Retina-quality displays. You’ve got the ability to view, edit, and share photos in a variety of ways with Apple placing special emphasis on iCloud for ultimate syncing power between your collection of iDevices including your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
UPDATE: SlashGear’s review of the new iPad here.
iPhoto for iOS allows permalinked webspace for Photo Journals
The trifecta of iWork applications has finally been completed for iOS devices here at the launch of iOS 5.1 and 2012's newest iPad model, iPhoto ready to go for the summer. This version of iPhoto contains a Journal feature in which you can create your own books of photos and notes which you can then share to your heart's content by exporting to iTunes, sharing to the web, or just by turning to your friend with your iPad and saying "hey check it out." The coolest feature in the whole barrage of features this application has, as it turns out, is in the sharing field: a permanent link.
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iPad HD Liveblog Reminder: We kick off 10AM PST!
Living under a rock probably wouldn't be sufficient to shield you from speculation around the iPad HD these past few weeks, but fear not: Apple's big reveal is close at hand, and SlashGear is revving up the liveblog machine to bring you all the details. The iPad event kicks off at 10AM PST - that's 6PM GMT or 1PM EST - and we'll have all the breaking news at live.slashgear.com.
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Hello Google Play, RIP Android Market
Today Google has rebranded its massive set of markets into one: Google Play, “Pure Entertainment, Anywhere You want it to be.” This new market is taking the place of the Android Market, the Music store, Books, and Video stores as well. Google has taken this evolution of their market structure and put it at the forefront of not only their digital sales for each of these different medias, but for their cloud storage services as well. What you’ve got here is not just a store, but a place you can access your purchases at any time from whatever device you’ve got that can hook in.
Temple Run for Android release official
This week the folks at Imangi Studios have officially announced availability for their upcoming release of Temple Run for Android. This game has already seen massive success on the iOS platform for both of Apple's hero devices, iPhone and iPad, and has been the Top Grossing App and Top Free App in the App Store back in January of this year - not an easy feat. There will be a FREE TO DOWNLOAD version of the app available for Android at the end of this month - March 27th to be exact, and the release will almost certainly break records if interest shown thus far is any indication.
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App Store 25 billionth download winner and app revealed
Apple has confirmed the results of its 25 billion App Store downloads competition, with the download clock ticking past the milestone over the weekend. The 25 billionth app to be downloaded was the free version of Where's My Water?, with the lucky recipient of a $10,000 iTunes gift card being Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China.
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Apple blasts through 25 Billion App Store downloads
Apple has passed the 25 billion downloads mark in the App Store, thanking users of its iOS devices for helping the company – and the legions of iOS developers – for helping them reach the software milestone. Tipped as imminent in mid-February, the news confirms the App Store as the most active of the current software download portals. As for the winner of the 25bn downloads competition, Apple will announce who gets the $10,000 App Store gift card imminently.
Iddiction app is like Groupon for apps
The Apple App Store has more than 578,000 apps. That's awesome. That is, except for the fact that if you're just browsing through to find an interesting app, you're likely to be overwhelmed and will never be able to find everything. The answer to that problem, according to a new company called Iddiction, is to create a daily deal platform.
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Viddy app pulled from App Store over adult content
A video-sharing app called Viddy, which has been around for some time but has been surging recently and came into the ranks of the top five, has been pulled from the App Store. While the reason behind apps becoming disabled are never publicly announced, it's being reported that the reason is due to an increase in adult content and a lack of regulation on Viddy's part. The app's developer has denied that and said it's working with Apple to resolve the issue.
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