Apple’s buckled under the pressure, or at the very least, they’ve decided to enforce their own terms of use: the “Gay Cure” app is no longer available on the App Store.
There’s been a lot of pressure on the internet to remove the application from the App Store. Approximately 145, 000 people signed a petition demanding that Apple remove the app.
March 23, 2011
As Apple readies the next batch of iPad 2s for international release on Friday, RIM managed to sneak their PlayBook announcement under the wire yesterday. Officially revealing both the price and the launch date, RIM is sending a clear signal to Apple: It’s game on.
Billing the PlayBook as the world’s first “professional-grade” tablet, RIM will launch its entry in the tablet wars on April 19 in Canada and the United States, with pricing starting at $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model, matching Apple’s price for the base level iPad 2. The 32GB and 64GB models will sell for $599 and $699, respectively.
March 23, 2011
According to Apple PR, Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering, is leaving the company.
Serlet has a long history in the software game. He worked at Xerox PARC, where Steve Jobs famously saw such tech as the GUI, mouse and more. Serlet worked at NeXT, as well, the company Jobs formed after leaving Apple in the late 1980s. He was promoted to his current role in 2003.
To say that he has been influential over what the Mac has become is a severe understatement.
According to his quote in the press release, Serlet wants ”to focus less on products and more on science.”
Serlet will be replaced by Craig Federighi, who was also a NeXT employee. Federighi returned to Apple in 2009 to help lead the Mac OS X team.
March 22, 2011
Remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is on the run? He walks into a shopping concourse trying to blend in to the crowd, but he can’t avoid the eye scanners. As he gets scanned, each advertisement he walks past instantly calls out his name, selling whatever product directly to him.
It’s here.
SITA, an aviation communications and technology company, is launching a new program in Copenhagen International Airport that will soon deliver location based advertising to your iPhone while inside the airport, using your device’s own Wi-Fi to track you.
March 22, 2011
According to paidContent, the Washington Journal will begin selling individual issues of its paper for $1.99 per issue. This’ll be done through its current application.
If an iPad user opts to download a single issue, they’ll only be getting what was available in that day’s print edition. They won’t get the ‘Now’ edition of the paper, which includes regular updates to the daily edition.
March 22, 2011
Apple has released a software update for the Apple TV 2. This is a bug fix release and does not include any new features.
March 22, 2011
Thunderbolt is on the way, and it may be coming to another one of Apple’s computers. According to AppleInsider, Apple’s preparing to release a brand new iMac in May and included in the rebuild is the fancy new Thunderbolt port that’s currently gracing the presence of the latest MacBook Pro systems on the market.
March 22, 2011
The war on optical solutions for software distribution continues, but this time, instead of Apple leading the charge, Parallels has decided that it will begin to distribute their software on 4GB SD Cards alongside DVDs.
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March 23, 2011
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