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Sony Aims at Apple With New Gadgets

Portable devices to use iTunes-esque service

(Newser) - Sony is preparing to challenge Apple's dominance of the handheld gadget market with a slate of new portable devices. Sony's planned products include a cell phone that can download and play PlayStation games and an iPad-esque multifunction device that will be both an e-reader and portable game console.

Apple Sues HTC for Aping iPhone

Says smartphone maker violated 20 patents

(Newser) - Apple has filed a lawsuit against HTC, one of its biggest competitors in the smartphone market, saying it infringed on 20 iPhone-related patents. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it,” Steve Jobs said in a statement. “...

1 in 3 Fear Being 'One of Those iPhone People'

But though some find it 'dangerously alluring,' most 'love' gadget

(Newser) - It's “dangerously alluring,” but the iPhone makes most Stanford students so giddy that they don’t really care. About a third of respondents in a recent study said they worried about becoming addicted to the gadget. But the torrid affair is far from over—roughly three-quarters said that...

German Tabloid Rips Apple Strip Censorship

Bild execs rally publishers to battle 'free speech' assault

(Newser) - A German tabloid is screaming censorship over Apple's new application decency standards, which are inhibiting a newspaper promotion that allows readers to "strip" a photo of a daily model by shaking their iPhones. Bild managers have already bowed to Apple restrictions by leaving the models in bikinis after the...

iPhone Game App Makes $1M in 9 Days

Plants vs. Zombies appears to be on record pace

(Newser) - A popular game for the iPhone may have had the best rollout ever with more than $1 million in sales in just 9 days. Plants vs. Zombies, already a hit on Macs and PCs, has sold more than 300,000 copies at $2.99 a pop through the App Store....

Apple Considers 'Explicit' Section for Booted Apps

Developer-only category could mean restricted App Store area in future

(Newser) - Just days after Apple drew the wrath of the blogosphere for booting racy apps from its App Store, iPhone developers report a new “Explicit” category in its place. The move could mean the company is carving out a future place for some of the more than 5,000 programs...

What Apple Doesn't Consider Porn
 What Apple 
 Doesn't Consider Porn 
bikinis, no; playboy, yes
Feb 22, 2010 4:15 PM CST

What Apple Doesn't Consider Porn

Apps store crackdown on porn is wildly inconsistent

(Newser) - The mystery and irrationality of Apple's approval process for iPhone apps has frustrated would-be developers since the App Store opened—and the latest crackdown on sexually explicit apps is no exception. Apple has done away with many sexy apps recently, telling one developer "bikini photos, skin, sexual connotations or...

Smartphones Block Out Real World

Fathers, lovers, etc. lost in omnipresent gratification of data

(Newser) - Once upon a time, a professor says, we “put up” with the piecemeal flow of information “because we had to,” but now that the world is at our fingertips, it’s hard to resist. Just ask the dad who let a bathtub holding his daughter overflow because...

Heidi and Spencer Launch iPhone App
 Heidi and Spencer 
 Launch iPhone App 
YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Feb 22, 2010 10:06 AM CST

Heidi and Spencer Launch iPhone App

$1.99 will buy you all the Speidi you could ever want

(Newser) - For those not totally puking in their own mouths over the surgically enhanced, attention seeking antics of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the Hills twosome is now offering an iPhone app. For the bargain price of just $1.99, you can download SpeidiWeb, an application that allows you to view...

Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps



 Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps 
CENSORSHIP DEPT?
Feb 19, 2010 11:35 AM CST

Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps

Evidence of systemwide effort to rid App Store of explicit material

(Newser) - Apple appears to be cracking down on sexually explicit applications for sale in its App Store as one and then another racy app becomes unavailable. TechCrunch has what a developer says is an email describing the decision to pull his program. “We have decided to remove any overtly sexual...

Developer Takes Down Mussolini iPhone App

It generated legal questions, protests —but might return

(Newser) - The developer of an iPhone application featuring Benito Mussolini—which became the most popular app in Italy—is withdrawing it over legal questions about the fair use of video and audio clips. Luigi Marino’s iMussolini also sparked not only protests from Jewish groups and others, but also hand-wringing from...

Steve Jobs: Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Is BS

Apple CEO slams Adobe, Google at company town-hall

(Newser) - Steve Jobs had some harsh words for Adobe and Google at a town hall-style meeting following the iPad's launch last week, Apple workers say. "We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business," Jobs said in reference to Google, a source tells Wired . "Make...

Mussolini iPhone App a Hit
 Mussolini iPhone App a Hit 
Jan 29, 2010 5:46 AM CST

Mussolini iPhone App a Hit

iMussolini seizes control of Italian sales charts

(Newser) - An iPhone app that offers the full text of over 100 speeches from Benito Mussolini has been selling briskly in Italy. The iMussolini application has been downloaded over 1,000 times a day since its launch last week, and is in second place in popularity on the Italian version of...

Apple Stunner: Why Stick With Overloaded AT&T for iPad?

Analysts decry decision, Verizon stock plummets

(Newser) - Apple shocked investors and dismayed consumers yesterday by announcing that the iPad would run exclusively on AT&T, even though the iPhone is already straining that network to the breaking point. iPhone users tend to gobble up twice the bandwidth that other smartphone customers use, and AT&T has been...

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet Is Like a Car
Here's Hoping Apple Tablet
Is Like a Car
opinion
Jan 26, 2010 2:42 PM CST

Here's Hoping Apple Tablet Is Like a Car

Computers should be as easy to use as vehicles, appliances

(Newser) - Computers can do amazing things, but as anyone with a technophobic parent knows, they’re still way too complicated. That’s why Farhad Manjoo is hoping Apple’s new tablet will be “the first fully powered PC that is as simple to use as a kitchen appliance.” Sure,...

Happy 50th, Bubble Wrap
 Happy 50th, Bubble Wrap 
Jan 24, 2010 3:00 PM CST

Happy 50th, Bubble Wrap

Iconic packing material-slash-plaything celebrates a half-century

(Newser) - A beloved product originally intended as a funky wallcovering celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the popping not of champagne corks but of bubbles—the bubbles in Bubble Wrap. Bubble Wrap (yes, it's a trademark) brings in more than $4 billion a year for its New Jersey-based manufacturer and...

The White House Gets an App
 The White House Gets an App 
Jan 20, 2010 11:58 AM CST

The White House Gets an App

Now you can watch the State of the Union on your phone

(Newser) - Want to keep apprised of the president’s every word, photo op, and press release? There’s an app for that. The administration today rolled out a new iPhone app, dubbed simply “The White House,” which allows users to keep tabs on Barack Obama’s latest news, photos,...

Apple in Talks With Microsoft to Switch iPhones to Bing
Apple in Talks With Microsoft to Switch iPhones to Bing
google now enemy No. 1
Jan 20, 2010 10:52 AM CST

Apple in Talks With Microsoft to Switch iPhones to Bing

Apple looks to cooperate with Microsoft as Google rivalry heats up

(Newser) - In a sign of just how tense Apple’s rivalry with Google has gotten, the software giant is in talks with archrival Microsoft to make Bing the primary search engine on the iPhone. The negotiations have been underway for weeks, sources tell Businessweek. “Apple and Google know the other...

Grand Theft Auto Out for iPhone

Chinatown Wars is getting good reviews from early users

(Newser) - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been released for the iPhone, for those who want to indulge in a little Liberty City mayhem in between emails. The game is a direct port of the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP versions and costs $9.99, a little pricey for an iPhone...

Flying iPhone Drone Wows
 Flying iPhone Drone Wows 
CES tech convention
Jan 6, 2010 2:24 PM CST

Flying iPhone Drone Wows

Remote control quadricopter is a hit at preview event

(Newser) - One of the most buzzed-about time wasters from the upcoming CES tech convention so far is a flying drone that you control—and play games with—just by tilting your iPhone. Dubbed the “AR Drone,” this snazzy 18-inch quadricopter weighs just 11 ounces, and it’s equipped with...

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