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Apple to stop accepting DUI checkpoint apps

Larry Copeland USA Today 06/10/2011
Hackers expose flaw in Apple iPad, iPhone software

Hackers have disclosed a bug in software from Apple Inc that security experts said could be exploited by criminals looking to gain remote control over iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.

Apple to stop accepting DUI checkpoint apps

It's getting harder for tech-savvy drivers to pinpoint the locations of police drunken-driving checkpoints: Apple will ban from its online store future applications that inform users of checkpoints not publicized by police.

Gadgetwise: New York at the Touch of a Finger

GREGORY SCHMIDT The New York Times 05/20/2011

New York Public Library Introduces iPad Apps

Felicia R. Lee, Dave Itzkoff The New York Times 05/19/2011
Gadgetwise: New York at the Touch of a Finger

It’s easy to spot the tourists in New York; they’re the ones with the fanny packs and the guide books. Dorling Kindersley, publisher of the Eyewitness travel guides, is hoping its new iPhone app will help tourists blend in a little better. The company has digitized its Top Ten guide for New York City, putting Big Apple highlights at the touch of a finger instead of the turn of a page.

New York Public Library Introduces iPad Apps

Here an app, there an app, everywhere an apt app. Now the New York Public Library is creating iPad apps that bring its research collections into “the palms of the public’s hand,” as library officials put it in a statement. Biblion: The Boundless Library is the name for a series of apps available on Apple’s tablet computer that highlight different elements in the library’s collection.

App Shows Breast Implants Before and After

Samantha Murphy Yahoo! News Canada 05/11/2011

Apple Bans Immigrant Smuggling Game

Sajid Farooq NBC Los Angeles 04/28/2011
App Shows Breast Implants Before and After

A plastic surgeon has created an app that performs virtual plastic surgery on photos to show women curious about breast implants what it would be like to have a different bra size.

Apple Bans Immigrant Smuggling Game

Wonder how not to get an app approved for Apple's App Store? Submit a game about smuggling a bunch of immigrants across the desert without getting them killed.

U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web

PAUL SONNE And STEVE STECKLOW The Wall Street Journal 03/28/2011

Apple under fire for 'gay conversion' app

Alex Spillius Telegraph 03/20/2011
U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web

As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites.

Apple under fire for 'gay conversion' app

Apple has come under fire for approving an "app" that offers guidance on how homosexual people can be "cured" and convert to heterosexuality.

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain The Guardian 03/17/2011

Google Disables Android Malware; Takes Heat Over App Security

SPENCER E. ANTE And AMIR EFRATI The Wall Street Journal 03/07/2011
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

Google Disables Android Malware; Takes Heat Over App Security

A major software attack on mobile phones has put pressure on Google Inc. to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts last week uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to and distributed from Google's Android Market.


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