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macblogz.com - 12/19/2008
iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple
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Apple’s App Store is an interesting, exciting and frightening all at the same time. iPhone application developer Chris Nikkel knows this first hand. His application “Newber” has spent nearly 75 days waiting for approval from Apple, and he has yet to hear a word. Chris Nikkel ...
appleinsider.com - 12/18/2008
Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee
— appleinsider.com — New evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group's PowerVR mobile graphics technology broke... today, when the company publicly announced that Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone ... (more) Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee

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Apple approved 14 new iPhone fart apps — yesterday alone
venturebeat.com - 12/20/2008
Apple approved 14 new iPhone fart apps — yesterday alone
— venturebeat.com — A new power is rising in Apple’s App Store. You might think it’s all the great games... that have been coming out recently for the iPhone platform — but you’d be wrong. There’s a trend that rising much more quickly: Fart ... (more) Apple approved 14 new iPhone fart apps — yesterday alone

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How to purchase an iPhone app
futuretap.com - 12/17/2008
How to purchase an iPhone app
— futuretap.com — Buy Where To in the App Store When I first came across tap tap tap’s Where To... sale offer , I was fascinated and scared as well. Fascinated because it would offer a jump start in the App Store; scared because of the risk involved. And puzzled about all ... (more) How to purchase an iPhone app

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SitePoint — ... Also this week MacBlogz published a story about FreedomVoice Systems, a company that makes an iPhone application called Newber that allows you to redirect phone calls from your cell phone to any other phone — so that if you’re on an important call and your iPhone starts to die, you can just redirect the call to a landline and swap phones. Apparently, FreedomVoice spent about $500 thousand developing and marketing Newber — and Apple hasn’t accepted it into the App Store yet. They might never accept it. Though about totally ...

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