China is booming, and Apple knows it. While the only official iPhone carrier in China, China Unicom, is offering free iPhones with long-term contracts, a new competitor may be soon entering the market.

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According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, China Telecom, the third largest wireless carrier in China may soon be offering the iPhone on its network. China Unicom is expected to start (more…)

Apple has approved a tethering application from Tether.com called iTether in the App Store. The
is a companion app for the Mac and PC versions, which allows users to use their iPhone ‘s data connection to surf the internet on a Mac or PC over USB.
Apple has previously banned such applications from the App Store possibly due to pressure from carriers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint who offer tethering plans for $20 per month that can be used using (more…)

Security researcher and a former National Security Agency analyst – Charlie Miller has revealed that he has found a major security vulnerability in iOS that could allow malicious code to be executed on the iOS device, which could be used by the attacker to steal the user’s photos, read contacts, make the phone vibrate or play sounds etc.
Miller became suspicious of a possible flaw in the code signing of Apple ’s mobile devices with the release (more…)

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The iOS app remotely converts Flash videos into HTML5 format before they are embedded into the user's browser. Unlike apps that Apple has rejected in the past, the process for making Flash iPhone -compatible is done on Skyfire's servers and not on the device, which probably satisfied Apple 's requirements.
While users may get access to Flash on their iDevices using Skyfire, they won’t be able to interact with these Flash files. This (more…)

in July last year. According to reports, Apple may have finally approved the official Google Voice app to the App Store. The application is however not available for download as yet since it is apparently being revamped by Google to support the
.
Google has however not confirmed the development so far. A company spokesperson told
,
“We currently offer Google Voice mobile apps for Blackberry and Android, and we offer an HTML5 web app for (more…)

for the April 3rd launch since the Amazon app developers had not been able to test the application on a real device.
However, news is now in that Amazon's Kindle app for iPad has been approved and is available on the App Store. The app makes use of the iPad's colorful UI to deliver engaging content to its users. Also, thanks to the larger real estate on the iPad, Kindle's iPad app offers a much improved reading experience over its iPhone (more…)

have noted that Amazon has now started carrying placeholders for iPad on its website. Interestingly enough, the iPad page says that the product shipment is currently available only within the US. While the iPad is yet to be available on the store, Amazon's page calls for people to sign up to receive updates on its availability. The iPad page reads:
“Amazon wants to keep you informed about this exciting product. We do not know when we will be (more…)

. Back then we had written that these apps were approved with a note to developers that such violations should be rectified in the subsequent updates.
Now we are hearing that the approval process overall has become a lot more quicker as well. According to an article on
, newly submitted apps no longer take weeks to be approved. Instead, it has taken only a matter of few hours for developers to get their apps approved by the
staff.
It is not (more…)

The number of apps available on the app store is still around the 92,000 mark since a few apps are either held back by the developers or by Apple for various issues. Nevertheless, with the official number soon to reach the six digit mark, there is plenty that Apple needs to be happy about.
To understand how the app store has turned into a pivotal feature for the iPhone , we have to compare the number of apps for the iPhone against the number of apps (more…)