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Apple Pulled Pirated App from Mac Store

February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Last week I reported on a pirated app that showed up in the Mac Store. The app in question is called Lugaru, and it was created by Wolfire Games. I have an update for you. Wolfire Games reported last night that the pirated app was no longer listed in the Mac Store, but they still [...]

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Apple pulled another app from iTunes

November 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

And in our next story on why App Stores are a bad idea, we have this from the Huffington Post: The Manhattan Declaration, a controversial app condemning gay marriage, sparked outrage when Apple approved the app for inclusion in its App Store, finding that it contained “no objectionable material.” Earlier this week, The Huffington Post [...]

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WordPress.com pulled a theme last week – this is the digital publishing story no one covered

August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

If you don’t think of WordPress.com as digital publishing, that’s okay. I didn’t realize until Sunday that I really should have covered this. IMO, Teleread and MediaBistro (MobileContent) also should have reported on this story. So what happened last week was that WordPress.com deleted the cutline blog theme and replaced it with coraline, a very [...]

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Amazon pulled Every Word app due to the N-word

August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Amazon, apps & games

I have a follow up on the story I reported earlier today. Amazon pulled the app. Here’s what Crunchgear reported: Just got word from Amazon, and they’re going to stop distributing the game because “the dictionary it uses does not block some inappropriate words.” Once the offending words are expunged, distribution will resume and an [...]

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