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Представитель Facebook на этой неделе сообщил о том, что социальная сеть планирует запустить собственный магазин приложений App Center, аналог App Store и Google Play. ibnews.com.ua »

До недавнего времени inApp Purchase был достаточно надежным механизмом защиты от взлома приложений. Если разработчик хотел, чтобы его приложение не попадало в список ломаных — он просто выпускал его бесплатным с продажами внутри. Схема работала. Но после появления в Cydia 'iAP Cracker' — ситуация изменилась. Под катом описан метод, как можно вполне легально обойти эти ломалки. Читать дальше → habrahabr.ru »

TORONTO (Reuters) - Planning a wedding? A new web app lets the bride and groom-to-be create a social website that connects guests with each other before the big day. Reuters: Internet News »

Я думаю, что большинство iOS разработчиков так или иначе сталкивались с тем, что по правилам Apple не удавалось сделать какие-либо функции. Часто это бывает связано с тем, что определенные методы попали в раздел private. При попытке опубликовать приложение с их использованием последует его отклонение (пункт 2.5 Apple Review Guidelines). Под катом я расскажу, как можно частично снять это ограничение. Читать дальше → habrahabr.ru »

With more than 50 percent of U.S. mobile phone users now equipped with smartphones, demand for mobile apps continues to soar. The average number of mobile apps per smartphone jumped from 32 apps to 41 apps during 2011 -- a 28 percent rise in comparison with 2010, according to a new report from Nielsen. However, U.S. smartphone owners spent about the same amount of time using mobile apps each day in 2011 as they had during the previous year -- 39 minutes per day versus 37 minutes per day, Nielsen said. Nielsen researchers said 70 percent of the survey's respondents expressed "concern over personal data collection" and 55 percent were "wary of sharing information about their location via smartphone apps." So we asked Al Hilwa, director of applications software development at IDC, what developers need to do to address privacy concerns as well as prod U.S. smartphone users to spend more time using their apps. Hilwa said he expected to see the development of new app types as well as the further expansion of apps into other areas of life. "And developers will continue to chase ever narrower opportunities" while hoping to "hit areas that have not transitioned fully from Web to mobile, or aspects of life not digitized fully yet," Hilwa said Wednesday. "But at some point this pace of growth will slow down." Claiming More Minutes Privacy and security considerations definitely stop some people from using apps. "And that may be another area where the industry can move to claim more minutes of app usage by increasing the confidence in apps," Hilwa said. Clearly, users ramp up the most toward app usage in their first few months of smartphone usage. "After that, a steady state ensues, and it is a challenge for the app ecosystem to keep existing users engaged," Hilwa said. "There... newsfactor.com »

A watchful eye has arrived to check out patrons of San Francisco's bar scene. A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. Would-be customers can then check their smartphones for real-time updates on the crowd size, average age and male-to-female mix to decide whether the scene is to their liking. The Austin, Texas-based makers of SceneTap say the app doesn't identify specific individuals or save personal information. But in a city known for its love of both libations and civil liberties, a backlash erupted even before the first cameras were switched on from bar-goers who said they would boycott any venue with SceneTap installed. SceneTap's ability to guess how old people are and whether they're men or women relies on advances in a field known as biometrics. A camera at the door snaps your picture, and software maps your features to a grid. By measuring distances such as the length between the nose and the eyes and the eyes and the ears, an algorithm matches your dimensions to a database of averages for age and gender. SceneTap CEO Cole Harper says the app doesn't invade patrons' privacy because the only data it stores is their estimated ages and genders and the time they arrived -- not their images or measurements. "Nothing that we do is collecting personal information. It's not recorded, it's not streamed, it's not individualized," Harper said. Whether the company's promises are comforting or SceneTap still seems creepy, it portends a near future when any camera-equipped smartphone will have the ability to recognize faces with a click of the virtual shutter. Already the iPhone's camera app will highlight a person's face on the screen with a green box before the picture is even snapped. And Apple's iPhoto... newsfactor.com »

Start-up Sidecar has taken the wraps off a new smartphone app that enables users to share live video and other multimedia content with friends, family members and fellow workers even as they are talking on their phones. Sidecar makes it possible for users to share photos instantly or deliver the entire contents of an album stored on their phones while chatting with the recipient. Interconnected Sidecar users also will be able to simultaneously view other content, such as an interactive street map. With Sidecar the goal is to help handset users break out of today's voice-calling silo, said Sidecar CEO Rob Williams. Until now, people who wanted to do more than talk "had to toggle back and forth between voice calls and whatever else they wanted to share with the person they were calling," Williams said Tuesday. There has been tremendous innovation in smartphones in every area except the basic phone call, Williams observed. Sidecar tears down these barriers and lets people easily share live video, location, photos, and contacts while they talk," he said. "The result is a more fun, engaging, and expressive conversation." Connecting Users Worldwide Among other things, the new Sidecar app enables live videos to be shared with others even as they are being captured by the user's handset camcorder. The service is free whenever both the user and the recipients have Sidecar installed on their phones. By instantly sharing maps, Sidecar makes it easy for commuters looking for rides to visually inform drivers just where to pick them up and drop them off. Sidecar is already geared up to serve the commuting needs of the communities of passengers and drivers around the world, said the company, which is based in San Francisco and Seattle. The new Sidecar app also gives users the ability to swiftly pass along and integrate... newsfactor.com »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless plans to launch a mobile video streaming application later this month with content from everybody from Comcast Corp to Netflix Inc as the mobile provider looks to increase usage on its mobile network. Reuters: Internet News »