Fraser Speirs developer at Connected Flow and Head of Computing and IT at Cedars School of Excellence has written an excellent article to clear the misconceptions about iOS multitasking.
in 2010, most iPhone blogs (including us) and even some Apple Geniuses have advised iOS device users to kill apps running in the background (the ones that show up in the multitasking bar) to improve battery life. In fact, we recently showed you how to close
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reports that Financial Times has acquired web and application development firm Assanka.
The 12-person shop had developed Financial Times HTML5 based web app.
Back in August 2011,  
 as it refused to get buckled down by Apple ‘s In-App Subscription policy.
Since all In-App Subscriptions go through Apple , it meant that publishers wouldn’t get all the information about subscribers such as demographic information used by magazines and newspapers (more…)

A couple of days ago,
that allowed users to create fake driver’s license on the request of a U.S. Senator. The app which was on the App Store for over two years, could apparently be misused for illegal activities.
According to DriversEd.com, the developers of the app, Apple didn’t contact them even hours after pulling down their app. When finally contacted, Apple cited a section of the 
 review guideline, which read:
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The prospect of asking Apple ‘s Siri to control items besides your iPhone is starting to look a whole lot more real.

A developer known only as Pete, or @plamoni on Twitter, has created a special proxy server through which he can issue voice commands to the iPhone 4S voice assistant, who can then perform tasks outside of the iPhone . The first target: his thermostat.

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The security protocol that enables Siri to communicate with Apple ‘s servers and return information via speech recognition has been cracked by developer Applidium.

What does that mean?

In a nutshell, according to Applidium, “anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!” The technology that Siri uses to communicate with Apple servers is not HTTP, as many developers may suspect. (more…)

If you’re a Twitter addict and a long time iPhone user then you’ve probably heard of Loren Brichter. Loren was the developer of a popular iPhone app called Tweetie. Tweetie was renamed as ”
” after Twitter bought Brichter’s company – Atebits last year.
But after a brief stint at Twitter, Loren who was the lead developer of Twitter for iPhone and iPad is leaving the company.
Today was my last day at Twitter. Taking some time to figure out what’s (more…)

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A follow-up to 9to5Mac’s report on developer Steven Troughton-Smith’s porting of Siri to an iPhone 4 reveals that another developer, Ryan Petrich, has created a scenario for Siri to function on an iPhone 3GS, though performance is not very good.

Last week Siri was hacked to run on an iPhone 4 by jailbreaking an iPhone 4S to recover the files necessary to run Siri (more…)

comes with a vastly improved 8-megapixel camera that has received rave reviews.
Lisa Bettany, a developer of
, one of the most popular third-party camera apps has posted an article, which compares the camera quality across all generations of the iPhone .
The iPhone 4S is dramatically clearer and sharper than previous iPhone versions. Using separate focus and exposure in Camera+ on the iPhone 4 & 4S significantly helped create a more balanced (more…)

, whose code had been
and later pulled out, was apparently almost ready back in May this year. This piece of information comes from 
. Following Facebook’s decision to indefinitely hold the release of the now-fully-complete app, Verkoeyen decided to quit the company and join Google.
Verkoeyen was working on the app for eight months and had put in a lot of work into the app, sometimes even working 80 hours a week. This was to ensure that the (more…)

Almost every event Apple holds to preview its devices or software includes a section where the company calls up a third party developer to show something cool they had built either on the device or using the software.
had Skype and Pandora,
was launched had Zynga and Activision.
, and he gives us some interesting details of how 
 ensured that its device remained under wraps from the outside world.
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