Category: App Store
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 08:53 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Phillip Shoemaker is the acting director of applications technology for Apple as well as the director of urination and fart app maker Gray Noodle.
According to a report by Wired, Shoemaker “has been frequently cited in news stories as one of the top decision makers enforcing rules when evaluating apps for approval or rejection.”
Gray Noodle’s portfolio of iPhone applications includes iWiz and Animal Farts, as well as Medical Poetry and Business Poetry.
Continue reading App Store overseer is also fart app maker.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 02:00 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
A survey of 300,000 iPhone and Android applications conducted recently by mobile security research firm Lookout indicates that 33% of free App Store apps can provide information on a user’s location.
Furthermore, 14% of free, Apple-approved App Store software can access users’ contacts and 23% include code from third-party sources.
Lookout presented their findings, produced from what they call “the largest mobile application dataset ever created,” at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Continue reading Study: 14 percent of free App Store software can browse user contacts.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 08:23 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Apple is promoting forty eight applications expanded for the iOS 4 upgrade with an Awesome iOS4 Apps section in the AppStore.
iOS4 offerings at the AppStore include Flight Control and Bejeweled 2 Blitz. Apple has excluded applications incompatible with its latest mobile operating system.
GamePro reports that, while adapted for the iPhone 4, most of the featured titles will also work on older Apple handhelds.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 09:15 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Apple’s much anticipated Apple Store application went online today.
With the app, which costs nothing, users can:
-see and shop Apple products
-find answers to product questions
-read customer reviews
-locate any Apple Store in the world
-schedule time at the Genius Bar
-sign up for workshops and events
-buy or reserve an iPhone 4
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 12:33 PM | Posted by kazouz
Sources report that Apple is planning to launch a new iOS application tomorrow.
The application is said to be a touch screen version of the Apple website and online retail store. It will allow users to make Genius Bar appointments, book one-to-one training sessions, check product availability by store location, and make online purchases.
The Apple-created application will be available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
AppleInsider suggests that Apple may launch an iPhone application that allows customers to “purchase and reserve products including [making] reservations for the new iPhone," as early as tomorrow.
The Apple Store app could also enable users to book Genius Bar time, browse classes offered at Apple Stores, and locate nearby outlets.
Continue reading Apple retail store iPhone app coming Tuesday?
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 09:26 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
The number applications tailored for the Apple iPad had reached over 10,000 as of Friday, June 14th.
TechCrunch reports that in the past six weeks, begging the end of April, the catalog of iPad applications has doubled in volume.
As of Monday, there were over 10,015 iPad apps available at the Apple App Store.
Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 01:09 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Today, Apple’s iTunes app store for the iPad became accessible for the first time outside the United States.
Engadget reports that iPad users in Europe and Australia have been downloading iPad applications as of early this morning and Macworld confirms an iPad update for the Canadian app store.
Apple will start selling iPads abroad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom on Monday, May 28th.
Continue reading iPad app store opens doors internationally.
Friday, May 07, 2010 at 07:15 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
An iPhone/iPad/iPod touch application offered by UK Multimedia called AmpliTube iRig creates stombox effects and amps for guitars and base guitars.
“With AmpliTube iRig, you can plug your guitar into your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and jam anywhere with world class guitar and bass tone right in the palm of your hand - from the leader in studio-class guitar and bass software,” reads the IK Multimedia website.
An adapter plugs one’s instrument into one’s App Store-enabled hardware and iRig software then enables a user to customize that instrument’s sound.
Continue reading iRig turns iPhone into guitar amp.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 12:59 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Less than a month after transferring the “iPad” trademark from Fujitsu, Apple is refusing to allow any applications with the word “pad” in the tittle into the App Store.
“It’s just common sense to not use another company’s trademarks in your app name,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
“This ruling came about only after we had two apps live in the App Store and had spent tens of thousands of dollars in marketing and getting our apps media exposure,” said journalPad developer Chris Ostmo.
Continue reading Word “pad” not allowed in App Store titles.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 03:14 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
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• iBeer (99-cents)
• St. Patty’s Pub Finder ($1.99)
• Taxi Magic (free)
• Guinness Pub Finder (free)
• Google Earth (free)
• iClover (99-cents)
• Pocket Cocktails (99-cents)
• St. Patrick’s Day Songs (99-cents)
• Irish Slang Dictionary (99-cents)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 09:14 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Dr. Daniel Low of the Royal United Hospital in Bath, England has developed a free iPhone application that provides step-by-step intructions for resuscitating people experiencing cardiac arrest.
The app, iResus has been available through the App Store for three weeks and has been downloaded more than 5,000 times.
The application provides medical professionals and the general public with on-screen guidance for emergency procedures like chest compressions and the “kiss of life” for a person having a heart attack.
Continue reading App could help save heart attack victims.
