Apple Relaxes App Store Approvals as Android Gains in Relevance

Kristen Nicole | September 9th

Apple is relaxing the rules around its approval process for iPhone apps, effectively opening the flood gates for developers (to a degree). Of course, Apple is still concerned about safety, and the company has...»

Amazon EC2 Launches Micro Instances, for Smaller Apps

Kristen Nicole | September 9th

The cloud, a la carte (kind of). Amazon is expanding its EC2 hosted solutions, addressing a growing demand around smaller rate plans for smaller applications. The new service, called Micro Instances, come shortly...»

MasterCard Sends Money on BlackBerry, iPhone. Still No Android Apps.

Kristen Nicole | September 9th

MasterCard has launched a BlackBerry app for sending and receiving credits, securely transferring money person-to-person. Set up for the US, the new MasterCard MoneySend app is quite similar to PayPal’s mobile app, and comes...»

Rackspace + Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Giving Developers the Control They Need to Enter the Cloud

Kyt Dotson | September 8th

Rackspace is extending their cloud computing and storage reach by offering a Visual Studio 2010 plug-in specifically developed for their service. With it, developers will be able to seamlessly and painlessly integrate cloud services deployed by

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The ACLU is Filing Suit Over Warrantless Border Laptop Searches

Kyt Dotson | September 8th

The ACLU filed suit against the government with the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals. Since 2008, over 6,500 people—more than 3,000 of them U.S. citizens—have been subject to warrantless border searches of...»

Are You a Professional Microsoft Hater? Here’s Your New Favorite Web App.

Steven Hodson | September 8th

Just in time for the launch of Windows Phone 7 the folks at The Wolf Bytes brings you the Windows Phone 7 Failure Reason Generator.

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Ex-President of Google China Conquers the Chinese Mobile Market

Kristina Farrah | September 8th

Kai-Fu Lee, ex-President of Google China is going to prove that it’s unfair to call Chinese companies "non-innovative,” as he embarks on two projects focusing on China’s immense market of mobile subscribers to cater individual...»

Facebook’s Most Powerful Developer, Zynga, Switches Exclusively to Credits

Kyt Dotson | September 8th

It looks like Facebook developer Zynga is jumping on the Credit bandwagon without reservation as part of a five year deal.  Zynga's been woring towards Facebook credits for a few months now, but the latest...»

Kno Plans to Launch a Tablet-Based Digital Textbook

Kyt Dotson | September 8th

Kno has raised $55M in their bid to make the market for digital textbooks with their eponymous e-textbook product the Kno. An article posted at GigaOM says,

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Google Gets Psychic with Instant Search Results. Screw the “Enter” Button.

Kristen Nicole | September 8th

Google has launched Google Instant today, using predictive type technology to deliver faster search results for queries. It cuts down 2-5 seconds per search, showing results in real time, without having to hit the...»