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Guest Post: Microsoft’s new tablet, will it be secure enough
by Beth Janick, a copywriter with iphonespyapp
Microsoft recently announced its Surface tablet, due in Q4 2012, and users can’t wait for the new gadget. Apple’s iPad ruled the tablet market but many users want something different and new to the eye. Microsoft has exactly that and the success of the tablet is already gauged in the variety of views that are springing up about the tablet and the excitement amongst potential users about this gadget. The only question that remains unanswered concerns the security of this tablet. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Microsoft, WP8, iOS, mobile security, tablets
Tagged Beth Janick, Bitlocker, iphonespyapp, metro, Microsoft, Surface, tablet, Windows RT, WP8
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Apple brings in-app purchasing into disrepute – yet again
Rating: 4-year old Brit runs up £87 bill playing rogue game Smurfs’Village
Despite it’s protestations to the contrary, Apple is bringing the whole practice of in-app billing into disrepute. This is despite its protestations to the contrary. The latest incident involves a four-year-old Brit, Oliver Allen – who cannot even read or write – managed to wrack up a bill of costing £87.48. Oliver was playing a children’s game – Smurfs’ Village, and incurred the charges because his mother – Sam Allen, was still logged into the iTunes App Store. The App Store has a time-out of 15 minutes and the purchases were made within that time period. The amazing thing is that the USA’s FTC had been asked to investigate exactly the same kind of incident nine months previously. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Apple, mobile gambling, mobile payments
Tagged Amy Klobuchar, Capcom Interactive, Edward Markey, FTC, metro, Oliver Allen, Sam Allen, Smurfs Village, Washington Post
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Good and bad news for Nokia app developers
Rating: WP7 SDK is here but developer forum has been hacked
This week has seen some very good news for developers hoping to create apps for Nokia phones. The good news is that Microsoft has just published the latest version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1. All current publishers of Windows Phone are being asked to use this latest SDK to update their current apps and resubmit them to take advantage of new Window Phone capabilities. Which is great if you’re planning to develop for Nokia’s WP7 handsets. The bad news is that on Monday [August 22nd 2011] the developer.nokia.com forums discussion website suffered a security breach. The site contains a database of developer forum members’ email addresses and, for around 7 per cent of those members who chose to provide them – birth dates. But, Nokia account passwords, credit card data or similarly sensitive information was not accessed during this attack. So that good news as well, really. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Microsoft, Mobile applications, WP7, mobile developers
Tagged attack!, developers, forum, marketplace, metro, phone, SDK, silverlight, Windows, WP7
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Mazda goes augmented reality mad in Ireland with Mindshare
Interesting link in this article about Mazda and Mindshare running an augmented reality (Junaio) campaign in Ireland – http://www.businessandleadership.com/marketing/item/30010-mazda-metro-herald-and/
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Mobile barcodes, newspapers and Guinness together at last
If you’ve ever lived in a city with any public transport, you’ve probably come across the Metro. Probably the biggest free newspaper in the world, it also has a habit of being a pioneer when it comes to combining newspapers with mobile technology. In Canada today it is launching a 2D barcode initiative in conjunction with ScanBuy – allowing users to connect directly to it’s new mobile website from codes in the paper. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web, Mobile barcodes, mobile news
Tagged 2d barcode, barcode, guinness, metro, mobile barcode, Mobile Content, mobile internet, Mobile Web, newspaper, scanbuy, scanlife
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