Apple culls risqué content from Store

Rating: No boobies and bikinis for Cupertino

Apple, which resides in the same US state that hosts Baywatch and the porn industry, has decided that boobs and bikinis are far too risqué for its iTunes app store. It has been quietly culling them.

Evolving avatars - the next phone craze

Rating: Charge the phone or the fish gets it

Forget ringtones and wallpapers, the latest fad for mobile phone is evolving avatars. Or so Bluestreak Technology and Cellfish Media would have us believe. The first two avatars are Pilou the Hamster and Surimi the Fish.

Key indicators for iPhone app success

Rating: Media reviews, user feedback and an App Store rating, perhaps?
It’s interesting to see what criteria app developers are using to judge how successful their iPhone app are. Brian Akaka, founder of Appular disclosed his criteria. The answer is a mixture of rave reviews in the media; user feedback; and a rating on the iTunes [...]

Vodafone’s five handy tips for iPhone migration

Rating: No easy way to migrate contacts, though

Availability of the Apple iPhone 3GS on Vodafone’s UK network is imminent. Hence the operator has placed an ‘essential’ iPhone checklist on the company site containing five handy hints for migrating over to this smartphone. What’s really need is an addressbook migration tool, however.

Apple bows to UK’s OFT over online terms

Rating: terms and conditions changed for iTunes et al
Naughty Apple Inc has agreed to change its iTunes – that is the terms and conditions which it offers to consumers thanks to the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT).  Significantly this agreement extends to the online iTunes stores as well as its hardware sales.
Amongst the [...]

Opera introduces an easy-stream solution

Rating: V 10.10 serves content from your PC to your mobile
Obviously the easiest way to move content from a PC or existing handset to a new mobile phone would be side-loading it from a memory card. But in many cases such a procedure is complex, time-consuming and fraught with problems. Problem solved with Opera version [...]

Nokia moves the Ovi brand to PC client

Rating: Nokia Music (for PC) is rebranded Nokia Ovi Player
An interesting move by Nokia. It has taken advantage of an update to its existing PC client software, Nokia Music, to move the ‘Ovi’ brand onto the desktop. Personally, GoMo News views this as an attempt to combat the influence of iTunes – even in the [...]

Spotify application finally gets the green light for iPhone

Spotify has seemingly gone from being in limbo to being “made” in one step. It is reported that Apple has given the music application the go-ahead to appear on the iTunes app store - despite the fact that it directly competes with the core music functions of the iPhone.

Mobile music service nuTsie comes to the BlackBerry Storm

Melodeo today announced that its nuTsie music service is now available for download to BlackBerry Storm devices from nutsie.com. nuTsie works by syncing all of the music info on your iTunes library with the nuTsie server. That music is then streamed to your BlackBerry, allowing users to access their iTunes music from anywhere. It also [...]

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