A new update for the Kindle app showed up in iTunes today. The only change is a minor bug fix from the previous version. But it is interesting that Apple continue to allow the app to be updated. it looks like we really may see this come to a showdown in June. iTunes
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Blackberry to port BlackBerry Messenger to Android, iOS
March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware rumors
Boy Genius Report are reporting on rumors about the BlackBerry Messenger app and service. According to BGR’s sources, RIM will soon release a limited version of the app for iOS and Android. The Android port will come first, but no definitive release date has been set. The new apps are supposed to be stripped down [...]
Tags:Android·blackberry·ios·messenger·port
Kobo iOS app updated
March 1st, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Michael Tamblyn just announced on the Kobo blog that Kobo’s iOS app hasn’t yet been pulled from iTunes. I kid. The new version is a minor update which does not include the in-app purchase option. You might be wondering why Apple allowed this update (without the IAP), but blocked the Sony app. I’m not sure [...]
Readability iOS app resubmitted to the App Store
February 24th, 2011 · 6 Comments · app store news, opinion
Earlier this week I posted about Readability and how their app had been rejected from the App Store. Today I have an update for you. The following was tweeted from the Readability account yesterday: The Readability iOS app has been re-submitted. Coming soon: our open love letter to Apple. I doubt that they’re paying Apple’s [...]
Tags:app·ios·readability·resubmitted·store
Readability to drop iOS app over Apple subscr. rules
February 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · software news
And so it begins. Today the first developer abandoned iOS rather than pay Apple’s vig. Richard Ziade, creator of Readability, just announced that Readability had dropped plans for an iOS app. The app had been rejected by Apple on Friday, and after thinking about it over the weekend the Readability team decided they could get [...]
Kindle for iOS updated – now supports page numbers
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
I just caught a tweet from the official Amazon Kindle account. They just updated the iOS app with a number of new features: Real page numbers for thousands of books in the Kindle Store, with more coming soon. Now you can make proper citations in the classroom or follow along with people reading print books [...]
iOS accounts for 2% of web traffic & other reasons not to trust statistics
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
I cam across an interesting chart today which shows that iOS is now generating just over 2% of the world’s traffic on the internet. (I can’t recall where I found it, so if someone could find me the source I’d be grateful.) I was looking at this chart because web traffic has always been an [...]
Apple rejected the Sony Reader iOS app
February 1st, 2011 · 6 Comments · software news
As you might recall, last week Sony released their long awaited ebook app – for Android. I’ve just learned today that Sony won’t be able to offer the iOS app -Apple nixed the app. (See, this is why I don’t like app stores.) Sony had announced the apps when they launched their latest Sony Readers [...]
QuarkXPress to make iOS apps
January 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Quark will be launching the iPad Publishing Service, a new extension for QuarkXPress 8.5, next month. From the press release: Quark announced today a new service that enables QuarkXPress® 8.5 users to publish QuarkXPress content to the iPad. With its iPad Publishing Service for QuarkXPress, Quark will configure a starter iPad app with the customer’s [...]
Tags:apps·ios·quarkxpress
Overdrive iOS, Android apps get an update
January 25th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Overdrive have released a new version of the Media Console app today. With this app you can listen to MP3s and read Epubs that you’ve checked out of a participating library. Both the Android and iOS app were updated today. The Android app got a new UI and the ability to lock orientation. The iPhone [...]
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