iPhone News

  • EFF dubs Apple a 'jealous feudal lord' over iPhone dev contract (Computerworld) - Computerworld - Apple's agreement with iPhone developers contains several "troubling" clauses that paint the company as a "jealous and arbitrary feudal lord," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday.
  • Apple iPhone app fine print hurts developers (TechWorld) - Secret iPhone developer licence agreement disclosed iPad and iPhone developers beware. Apple reserves the right to kill an app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to $50 (£30).
  • Busted: Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers is finally public (Geek.com) - Wouldn’t it be nice if you could peek inside Apple’s contract with iPhone developers? Well, now you can, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and some legal wrestling. Apple’s license agreement that all iPhone developers must sign in order to submit their apps on the App Store is like Ten Commandments – the general public [...]
  • Apple patent points to keyless car, cashless iPhone app (Network World) - A recently filed patent by Apple suggests the iPhone could be used as an electronic key, opening and locking doors and paying for goods and services electronically.
  • Apple rejects iPhone app that measures radiation levels (Network World) - Apple has reportedly rejected an iPhone application from Israeli company Tawkon that promises to minimise your exposure to mobile phone radiation
  • Apple iPhone app fine print hurts developers (Macworld UK) - iPad and iPhone developers beware. Apple reserves the right to kill an app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to $50 (£30).
  • News: Apple releases iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 for iPad (iLounge) - Apple has released the fourth beta version of its iPhone SDK 3.2 for iPad. First released in January following the introduction of the iPad, the SDK is tailored specifically to the device, including support for its 1024x768 resolution, other iPad-specific interface functions, and includes an iPad simulator application so developers can pre-test their apps in an environment similar to that of the ...
  • Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public (Wired News) - Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
  • All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (OSNews) - So have you actually read the iPhone Developer Program[me] License Agreement? The EFF, using a freedom of information act to shrewdly get a copy legally off of NASA, look into the details and don't like what they find. As well as trying to prevent anybody from so much as mentioning the existence of these terms, Apple owe you no more than $50 if they sink your company by removing your apps for ...
  • All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (Electronic Frontier Foundations) - The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple—a major shift from the norms of the personal computer market.

    • Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
    • Digg
    • del.icio.us
    • Facebook
    • Mixx
    • Google
    • BlinkList
    • blogmarks
    • De.lirio.us
    • Fark
    • Furl
    • Live
    • Reddit
    • scuttle
    • Slashdot
    • StumbleUpon
    • Technorati
    • YahooMyWeb
     

    Quick Look @ iPhone

    * Height: 4.5 inches (115 mm) * Width: 2.4 inches (61 mm) * Depth: 0.46 inch (11.6 mm) * Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams) * 8GB or 16GB flash drive * 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display * 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi * Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously * Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) * Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) * EDGE * Bluetooth 2.0+EDGE