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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for May 11

Posted by | May 11, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Multiplied Media Corp. has implemented the Poynt360 name to the augmented reality search feature within the free Poynt local search application for the iPhone. Poynt360 overlays search results with the real-world environment as viewed through the iPhone’s camera, providing the user with an augmented local search experience.

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Steam for Mac launch details revealed

Steam for Mac launch details revealed

Posted by | May 11, 2010 | , |

Valve says Steam will launch on the Mac platform this Wednesday, May 12. On subsequent Wednesdays, additional collections of Mac titles will become available, each designed to highlight specific functionalities of Steam on the Mac.

The first collection of Mac titles will demonstrate “Steam Play,” which allows customers to purchase a game once and play it on all Steam supported platforms. Portal, in addition to supporting Steam Play, will be the first of Valve’s Source engine based games available on the Mac.

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Survey: 30/70 revenue split is unfair

Survey: 30/70 revenue split is unfair

Posted by | May 11, 2010 | , |

Eighty percent of developers in North America think they should receive more than 70% of the revenue generated by their apps in an app store according to the Spring North American Development Survey, an in-depth survey of over 400 developers conducted last month by Evans Data Corp. (http://www.evansdata.com), which provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population.

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Arguments to be heard in ‘iPhone prototype’ case

Posted by | May 11, 2010 | , |

A Silicon Valley judge will hear arguments later this week in a dispute over unsealing records about the criminal investigation into what may have been a prototype iPhone purchased by a blog, reports “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20004673-37.html?tag=mncol).

San Mateo County Judge Clifford Cretan has scheduled a hearing for 9 a.m. on Friday, May 14, in his courtroom in Redwood City, Calif. Cretan previously approved a police request to search the home office of “Gizmodo” editor Jason Chen, which resulted in a hailstorm of criticism.

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Apple: the iPhone still leads the Android in market share

Apple: the iPhone still leads the Android in market share

Posted by | May 11, 2010 | , |

The NPD research group recently reported that the market share for Google’s Android platform was now higher than the iPhone’s. Apple disagrees and tells the “Wall Street Journal” (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/05/10/android-vs-the-iphone-the-battle-heats-up/) the info is “limited” and misleading.

Apple points to other figures out recently from IDC indicating that the iPhone has 16.1% of the smart-phone market on a world-wide basis. Those figures put the iPhone well ahead of Android handset makers HTC and Motorola.

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