In conjunction with this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, and part of the new approval process includes a section that prohibits the inclusion of DUI checkpoints in iOS apps, notes “Autoblog” (http://macte.ch/WIfFF).
Section 22.8 states: “Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.”
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A Michigan company named ForeSee Results has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys’s four patents with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, reports “FOSS Patents” (http://macte.ch/K5asG). However, there’s no news related to Lodsys’s lawsuit against app developers from Apple and Google at this point, the article adds.
Read MoreAsigra (http://www.asigra.com) a cloud back-up recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, has launched Asigra Cloud Backup 11 with Cloud BURR industry firsts, including: data protection of handheld devices; the first multi-tenanted client to reduce management resources; and an automated cloud license server.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Riada has announced Skrappy 1.0, a scrapbooking tool for the iPad. The US$3.99 app was developed for creating scrapbooks using dynamic content such as music, movies, voice memos and websites, as well as photos, text and clip art. Skrappy has been designed to feel like a book, so pages are turned by swiping, with an animation to match.
Read MoreAccording to comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a “group that measures the digital world,” 74.6 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in April 2011, up 13% from the three-month period ending in January 2011.
Google Android ranked as the top operating system with 36.4% of U.S. smartphone subscribers, up 5.2 percentage points. Apple also gained share, capturing the #2 position with 26% of the smartphone market. RIM ranked third with 25.7% share, followed by Microsoft (6.7%) and Palm (2.6%).
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