Tag Archives : AppStore

Apple’s developer website has been inaccessible since Thursday last week and was rumoured to be compromised by hackers, Apple was tight lipped about it until this morning,  yesterday Apple sent an email to developers explaining that it had detected a breach on its servers on Thursday. The hacking may have leaked the users’ names, email addresses, and mailing addresses. On Internet, some [...]

Apple’s App Store which was launched on July 10, 2008 completes five years this week  Apple is celebrating  in a big way. On the eve of the anniversary according to reports by The Verge. You can access the new section featuring 5 apps and 5 games free for a limited time from iTunes on your Mac or the App Store on your iOS device.   The list of freebie apps and games include: Infinity [...]

Yahoo has just  announced through a tweet on Wednesday that they have purchased GhostBird Software, the makers of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge and will be integrated with Flickr. GhostBird has said that no further development will be done on either app, and they don’t intend to support new versions of iOS in an announcement on their website. The app is getting removed [...]

Couple of weeks ago  Apple said that it was close to reaching 50 billion downloads mark in it App Store, today they have crossed the threshold of 50 billion downloads. Apple’s App Store was launched  five years ago in July 2008. The App Store reached the 10 billionth download in January of 2011, followed by 25 billion in March 2012.In just over a year since its 25 billion milestone, Apple’s [...]

Adobe AIR on Android Adobe AIR app is now available in the Android Market. This doesn’t mean much at the moment for us users, as the Adobe AIR app comes without any applications. Nevertheless, Adobe has listed on its website  few blog posts and videos from some of the  prerelease program developers who have created AIR for Android apps.  The  developers can now publish ActionScript 3 projects [...]

GV Mobile Yes, its happening – Apple obviously has buried its hatchet with Google Voice based apps. After allowing GV Connect, a  U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone yesterday GV Mobile + will now make it reappearance on App Store. Sean Kovacs, developer of GV Mobile + confirmed this good news on Twitter that the app is coming soon, and has promised to make it free for the night [...]

App Store Apple’s App Store just opened up a “Try Before You Buy” to lets users test drive a limited selection of apps before buying them. The new section could be accessed from  under Features, go to features and select Free on the App Store,  the new section serves only to highlight the free  edition of apps which  only contains the freemium, “lite” or ad-supported versions of apps [...]

App Store on an iPhone Last week saw fraud occurring in the iTunes system, when  a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store’s “book” category with seemingly bogus content. There was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud. This week the scam seems to hit Travel apps, [...]

App Store Forty one  different books on the “Top Books Paid Software” listing of Apple’s online store were created by a publisher named “mycompany/Thuat Nguyen.” and for many of these titles there are  no ratings or reviews. If reports are to be believed a app developer hacked iTunes users accounts and has purchased their own apps using those accounts – making [...]

Image via CrunchBase The Apple  iPad users in UK and other countries who have got the device from US -as its not internationally available until May 28 –  had no options for buying apps directly through the device from Apple iTunes store, and this was one of the more frustrating aspects of owning an iPad outside the US.  This  inability to access the App Store on device is now a thing [...]