2:19 AM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
The developer of another
Google Voice app for
iPhone — “
GV Mobile +” — said that Apple approved his app today. Yesterday,
GV Connect appeared on the App Store, marking another reversal of Apple’s policy. Apple initially allowed Google Voice apps, but then banned them from the App Store because they “duplicated” existing iPhone features.
Anyone familiar with Google Voice knows that’s not a fair assessment. The apps provided a completely different spin on said features (the phone dialer, text messaging and others) through the Google Voice service, which allows you to create and use a virtual phone number of your choosing, chock full of unusual extras not currently possible on most cell phones or land lines......click read more below
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12:35 AM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
Trends Hut
This Article is written by Pete Cashmore

An unknown number of Apple IDs have apparently been hacked this week, and are being used to buy hundreds of dollars worth of apps in the App Store. It’s not yet clear whether the problem is widespread.
However, Brie later added that
numerous Vietnamese book apps were doing suspiciously well in the rankings —
Apple responded to the blogger that the issue is being looked into....
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11:33 PM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
Trends Hut
This Article is written by
Christina Warren
When
Apple released
iTunes 10 last week, the newest version of the venerable media app sported not only a refined interface and the new
Ping social network but a new application icon, as well.
For nearly a decade, every version of
iTunes has used some variation of a CD and paired with an eighth note as its desktop icon.
iTunes 10 dropped the CD, opting instead for a circle with a slight gradient with the music note emblazoned at the center.
Users are not impressed. The more displeased among us are taking their message to
Twitter,
Facebook and even
Steve Jobs’ e-mail account, decrying what some consider to be a design abomination.
Re-beautify your desktop and put an end to eyestrain, headaches and the general feeling of malaise that may accompany the use of the default icon with some of these replac
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