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- Google ostensibly close to buying WhatsApp for $1 billion
- Apple pulls AppGratis, App Store curation and promotion software
- Apple wins court order blocking class action in anti-poaching lawsuit
- The iDownloadBlog top news stories of the week
- Should Apple rethink its naming conventions for the iPhone?
- ITC judge finds Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s text selection patent
- ‘Messages’ lets you compose and reply to messages from anywhere in iOS
| Google ostensibly close to buying WhatsApp for $1 billion Posted: 07 Apr 2013 03:50 PM PDT
WhatsApp, the cross-platform instant messaging application for smartphones, is rumored to be close to negotiating a landmark acquisition deal with Google. Sources reportedly close to the negotiations claim the Internet giant is considering dropping a whopping one billion dollars on the popular service that as of March 2013 had a cool 200 million users, a hundred million ones on Android alone. The report ties nicely with talk of a new instant messaging brand from Google called Babble, and even more so given Facebook with its new Home UI layer for select Android devices is basically encouraging its one billion users to use its Messenger service right from their Lock screen or from whichever app they happen to be using at any give moment…(...) "Google ostensibly close to buying WhatsApp for $1 billion" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Apple pulls AppGratis, App Store curation and promotion software Posted: 07 Apr 2013 02:42 PM PDT
Enough has been said about so-called Apple dictatorship and app rejections on iDB so far and although I, for one, am usually first to support Apple in its curation efforts because it keeps junk away from the App Store, sometimes the company rejects submissions for competing with its own software or over offering a feature Apple plans on introducing in the near future. Now, Apple’s been after various app discovery apps for some time, even more so in this latest example involving AppGratis, a service which curates programs from the App Store and makes paid apps free for a day via revenue-sharing deals with their creators. In fact, it’s the revenue-sharing scheme which appears to go against Apple’s rule which forbids software providing access to other third-party programs by using marketing tactics similar to Apple’s App Store promotions…(...) "Apple pulls AppGratis, App Store curation and promotion software" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Apple wins court order blocking class action in anti-poaching lawsuit Posted: 07 Apr 2013 12:19 PM PDT
Apple, along with Google and five other Silicon Valley technology heavy-weights, has won a court order blocking a potentially devastating class-action antitrust lawsuit concerning alleged anti-poaching conspiracy. Bloomberg reported that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh Friday denied class action certification over accusations that said companies illegally conspired not to recruit one another's employees, which the plaintiffs said resulted in their incomes being held down by their employers…(...) "Apple wins court order blocking class action in anti-poaching lawsuit" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| The iDownloadBlog top news stories of the week Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT
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| Should Apple rethink its naming conventions for the iPhone? Posted: 07 Apr 2013 06:00 AM PDT
Former ad man and longtime Apple consultant Ken Segall has been very critical of his old company in recent months. And he continues that trend with a new blog post called ‘iPhone naming: when simple gets complicated.’ In the post, Segall argues that Apple screwed up the way it names its handsets—particularly on the ‘S’ models. He says that iPhones marked with an ‘S’ not only look awkward, but also send a weak message to consumers…(...) "Should Apple rethink its naming conventions for the iPhone?" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| ITC judge finds Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s text selection patent Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:00 AM PDT
In a decision issued on March 26, but kept classified until earlier this week, an International Trade Commission judge found Samsung to be infringing on Apple’s US RE41,922 patent that covers things like text selection and translucent buttons. It’s only a preliminary decision, and the judge only found Samsung guilty of infringement on one of two patents listed in the complaint. But if the decision gets upheld, Samsung could once again be looking at a major product ban in the US…(...) "ITC judge finds Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s text selection patent" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| ‘Messages’ lets you compose and reply to messages from anywhere in iOS Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:59 AM PDT
Sometimes I feel like I’m one of the only people in the world that doesn’t use biteSMS. Don’t get me wrong, I really like some of the tweak’s features, like quick reply and compose. But in my experience, it’s not very stable and tends to clash with the stock Messages app. That being said, you can understand my excitement when I saw ‘Messages’ pop up in my Cydia stream today. The new jailbreak tweak, by Ma Jun (the creator of Bulletin), offers up biteSMS-like quick compose and reply features, without all of the extra biteSMS fluff…(...) "‘Messages’ lets you compose and reply to messages from anywhere in iOS" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
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