Siri Assistant Stand Alone App Removed From iTunes App Store.

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If you had downloaded the Stand alone Siri App, now will see this message when you open the app! It is because Apple has removed the previous Siri Assistant app from the App Store in preparation for the launch of the iPhone 4S. Why you may ask and there is a very good reason, with the release of iPhone 4 and iOS 5, the  Siri Assistant features are integrated in iOS 5.
The app, which came to be in February 2010 and then  Apple acquired the company Siri, in April 2010, The Siri Assistant offered natural-language search features to provide users with movie times, restaurant reservations, and more.

Apple iTunes App Store, Twitter Are In Tune Now!

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Twitter has added iTunes App Store previews to it's integrated services so that you can see app store items on Twitter if you post links to apps or others. I just tested on the new twitter interface it works perfectly

AT&T Wants Whack Apple, Google And You With WAC.

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AT&T CEO wants to do good for you and make a buck while doing it. Realizing Apple App Store, Android Market doing brisk business and making big bucks, now the carriers wants a cut too. But they always sing the same blue, as wanting to do right by customers as a cover for the these money making deeds. When ever a big company comes out with wanting to do the best for the customers, I tend to look for the catch.
If you realize, AT&T sold millions of iPhones that run billions of apps from Apple App Store. With many of those billions of apps paying Apple 30% made Apple richer but AT&T none the richer. So AT&T CEO, together with other carriers and some handset makers, got together and mad WAC, to whack the nasty app stores. The song is;

"You purchase an app for one operating system, and if you want it on another device or platform, you have to buy it again, That's not how our customers expect to experience this environment." AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson said in a keynote speech at the world's largest mobile-phone trade show in Barcelona, Spain.

Yes Stephen, your customers like to have more 3G cell towers in say San Francisco bay area. That will make customers much more happier than any HTML5 app you or your conglomerate can offer.

WAC brings together AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp,  T-Mobile USA and also includes China Mobile, MTS, Orange, Smart, Telefónica, Telenor, and Vodafone among it's members. LG Electronics Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp have promised to make HTML5 and WAC compatible phones.

“In the one year since WAC was initially formed at Mobile World Congress 2010, we have achieved a great deal, delivering against our committed timelines and objectives every step of the way,” said Peters Suh, CEO, WAC. “Working together in a unified manner as an industry, we are having a positive impact on the mobile application development ecosystem, providing developers with a simplified method of creating applications and content, and delivering them across operator, handset and operating system. With the commercial launch of operator storefronts, handsets and applications, all based on WAC, we can say that WAC is now officially open for business.”

What ever the case, I don't want to get whacked by any of those carriers, I will settle for native apps from App Store or Android Market.
You can find more about WAC here.

Windows Phone Seven Marketplace Will Be Porn Free, Microsoft.

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Windows phone 7 market place seem to be teaming up to serve all of us. Microsoft seem to have learned from Apple's porn fiasco and they preemptively saying not to porn in apps. That is not only what they seem to have learned. The membership for developer program is $99 and for that the developers will be able to place unlimited paid and upto five free apps on the marketplace. If they want to post more than five free apps, they need to pay, $19.99 each.This might help to weed out junk applications easily.
Statement about adult related content on ACR;

 3.6 Adult Related Content
Content not allowed:
Sex / Nudity – Images that are sexually suggestive or provocative (e.g. sexually provocative touching, bondage, masturbation); provocative images that reveal nipples, genitals, buttocks, or pubic hair.
Content that a reasonable person would consider to be adult or borderline adult content (images, text, or audio).
Content that generally falls under the category of pornography.
Content that depicts or suggests prostitution.
Content depicting sexual fetishes.
Content of a sexual nature depicting children or animals.

Just like Apple developers share the profit with Microsoft, following the same 70/30 split as the Apple store.
Microsoft has published a application certification requirements that need to be followed by developers.
Another difference is Microsoft is not offering an alternative for private app developers, all need to go through the marketplace, at least for now.
ArsTechnica

App Store Downloads Top One Billion

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Apple just announced that iTunes App Store downloads has passed one billion mark. This all happened in a span of nine months and I think itself is a record!
Yes the contest for the billionth app download has been won by a 13 year old! Connor Mulcahey, of Weston, CT as the grand prize winner will receive a $10,000 iTunes® gift card, an iPod® touch, a Time Capsule® and a MacBook® Pro. The one billionth app, was Bump created by Bump Technologies.
“The revolutionary App Store has been a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, and we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve the astonishing milestone of one billion apps downloaded,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “In nine months, the App Store has completely revolutionized the mobile industry and this is only the beginning.”

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Get Your Gun On, On iPhone!

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This little firearm emulation, down to the scraped serial numbers, are available for iPhone now, from RnSK Softronics. Have not checked yet on app store.

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