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PayPal iPhone App Users “Poised to Become the Dominant Species”
As a devote Apple user I can’t say enough good things about their products and especially their tech support, Amazing!
But here is a cute ad from PayPal pushing the new iPhone PayPal Bump app that made me laugh.
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Apple Removes Apps Over Fake Review Claims – eWeek Europe
Apple pulls applications from its iPhone App Store after an accusation surfaces that the developer, Molinker, posted fake reviews about the mobile applications Apple on 7 Dec. pulled more than 1,000 applications from its App Store after reports of a …
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Apple Expels 1,000 Apps From Store After Developer Scam – Wired News
Apple has sent a clear message to any developers who try to game its iTunes App Store. Software developer Molinker has been kicked out, along with more than 1,000 of its iPhone applications. The Chinese developer had, according to some estimates, 1 …
Apple Bans 1,000+ Apps After Developer Is Caught Faking Reviews
Apple just swung the banhammer pretty hard at Molinker, a development company, after a customer named Patrick Timney pointed out that the majority of reviews on Molinker apps were fake. Until yesterday, the company had 1,011 apps on the App Store, mostly easy-to-knock-out travel guides for 99 cents each. Now they’re all gone, and Apple’s VP Phil Schiller told iPhoneography , “Yes, this developer’s apps have been removed from the App Store and their ratings no longer appear either.” See? Sometimes it does matter whether you complain or not.
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Bogus Reviews Gets App Developer Banned – Tom’s Guide
An app developer is accused of providing fake reviews to boost product reception. iPhoneography received a very convincing email proposing that a possible scam is going on with a Chinese App developer, its apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and …
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New Droid Ad Goes For iPhone Jugular, Misses
A new ad for the Verizon Motorola Droid tries to savage the iPhone for being more concerned with looking good than working great. Does it work? I’m going to have to award this round to Apple. Form and function are not an inverse relationship on the iPhone. The worst thing about the iPhone is not lack of features or user control over the device, it’s the AT&T network
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1% of App Store inventory removed in ratings scam – ZDNet Blogs
Apple has removed a large iPhone developer and its catalog of over 1,000 apps after it was discovered to be participating in a ratings scam. Moliker Inc., developer of over 1,000 titles including Mobile Travel Guide (pictured), is accused of giving …
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Apple scraps 1,000 iPhone apps – TG Daily
Apple has booted Molinker and its products from the AppStore, following complaints that the developer was posting fake reviews. The Chinese company had more than 1,000 apps in the store, mainly cheap travel guides for the iPhone. The products …
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Review scam leads to removal of over 1000 apps from App Store – Apple Insider
Apple lifts veil on App Store approval status Apple’s campaign to win the App Store… Apple’s Schiller to angry developer: “We hear… Apple’s Schiller personally responds to App…
Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled – Gizmodo
Molinker, creator of over a thousand iPhone apps, has been banned for juking the ratings system. The report from iphoneography says many of the company’s products had over 50 five-star reviews, mostly written in the same syntactically shaky style by …
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AT&T: Want To Tell Us We Suck? There’s An App For That
AT&T has debuted an iPhone app that will let AT&T/iPhone users submit reports when they experience poor phone service. This will be a popular app. The new “AT&T Mark the Spot,” available via the iTunes store , lets customers inform AT&T when they suffer dropped calls, failed calls, no coverage, data failure, or poor voice quality. The iPhone’s GPS features are used to provide location data so AT&T can see all the various places in DC and New Orleans where I can’t check my mail. Users can also report whether this happens once, seldom, often, or always.
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Twitter founder turns iPhone into eftpos terminal – Itwire.com
Very little information about the service is available on the Square web site ( http://squareup.com/ ), but the key to Square is a device which plugs into the audio jack on the iPhone and reads the magnetic strip on the credit/debit card. (However …
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It’s Official, Everybody Hates AT&T
There’s a new Consumer Reports survey out that ranks cellphone companies by customer satisfaction, and to pretty much no one’s surprise, AT&T comes in last in all 19 cities surveyed. (Verizon came in first.) As AllThingsD notes , the survey “suggests that AT&T’s shortcomings are more widespread than the carrier would have us believe and not simply the product of a high concentration of iPhones in the country’s larger cities.” With low marks for several key indicators of customer satisfaction-including service availability, circuit capacity, dropped-call frequency and voice service-across 73 percent of the markets Consumer Reports surveyed, it’s pretty clear that AT&T has become overextended by the popularity of the iPhone. Well surely this will serve as a wake-up call to AT&T, right? Nope
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey launches iPhone payment product – Daily Telegraph
Jack Dorsey, who came up with the idea for Twitter and is now the micro-blogging site’s chairman, has just unveiled Square, his new technology start-up which basically allows someone with an iPhone or iPod Touch to begin accepting credit or debit …
iphone/itouch Game Buyers Guide – Game Informer Online
The iphone is seriously overlooked on this site, so I’ve compiled a little list of the best games on the itouch (in my opinion mind you). My friends and I play on our itouchs all the time. I love it. I don’t just play games when I’m away from …
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Twitter Co-Founder Squares Up With Mobile Payment System – eWeek
Square, founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey and Tristan O-Tierney, came out of stealth mode Dec. 1 with an appropriately boxy magnetic reader gizmo that plugs into an iPhone headphone jack. Users make a purchase by swiping the …
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Get the New GetOutOfDebt.org Free Debt Help iPhone Application
Recently I worked with a company that helped me build an iPhone application for the GetOutOfDebt.org site. I made sure the application would be free for anyone to download.
I’ll be adding new features to it in the future but for now just wanted to get my toes in the water and make sure the application [...]
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Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts – Gigaom.com
Square is a little white card reader that plugs into headphone jack of an iPhone. Square is an app that resides on the iPhone. Square wants to become person-to-person payment system. Square disrupts existing point-of-sale device business. Square CEO …
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Most Recent – RCR Wireless
Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall recently appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss Apple’s iPhone exclusivity agreement with AT&T. Marshall believes that Apple should move away from its exclusive AT&T agreement and begin offering the iPhone …
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Another iPhone worm – and this time it’s malicious (Chester Wisniewski … – The Business Insider
Chester Wisniewski / Chester Wisniewski’s Blog: Another iPhone worm – and this time it’s malicious — I had guessed we would see a dangerous incarnation of worm for the iPhone within a week of the 5 Euro scam that Graham blogged about on November …
MPP Global Solutions: MPP Build iPhone Subscription Service to Power … – TMCnet
Nov 16, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Satellite broadcast giant Sky has extended the use of eCommerce services provided by MPP to accept Mobile TV subscriptions directly from users of iPhone and iTouch devices. To support the new service MPP …
IU student punched, robbed while walking – Indiana Daily Student
Brian Fetch, 19, was approached from behind by two males when one of them spun him around, punched him in the face and robbed him of $40 and his iPhone, debit card and hat. Without a cell phone, he could not call the police, so he proceeded back to …
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Awesome Money Saving iPhone App – RedLaser
Today I had a chance to play with a new app for my iPhone, RedLaser. All I’ve got to say is A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
RedLaser reads the bar code on a product that you are thinking of purchasing and then, and almost instantly checks prices on Amazon and Google, showing you where you can get the exact same [...]
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What’s on Your iPhone: My Favorite iPhone Apps
I would have to say that for me the iPhone has become one of those transformational gadgets that has changed my life for the better. Probably the iPhone and GPS (SatNav for my EU friends) make the most impact on making my life better.
I thought I’d share with you the iPhone applications that have become [...]
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The New Diamond Embedded MasterCard. Really!
It is still a bit of a buzz but it is worth mentioning. Apparently Kazkommertsbank in Kazakhstan is getting ready to roll out a MasterCard with a diamond embedded in it with gold trim on the card. Last November I wrote a story about the manufacturer of the card if you want to know more [...]
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Is the iPhone a Debt Worth Having?
The new iPhone is out and people are rushing, at a slower pace, yet again to get one. While they may be on the bleeding edge of technology, I wonder how many users of the iPhone can really justify the huge bills they can generate?
And you know what will come after this generation of iPhone? [...]
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