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Yahoo! has just updated its Messenger client for iOS and is now optimized for iPad 2.
- iPad-optimized layout
- Voice & video calling for iPad 2
- Improved spam management: block one or all add requests from a single view
- Fixed multiple bugs including the unexpected sign-out issue
This update requires iOS 4.0 or Higher
WordPress 2.8 for iOS is now available at iTunes App Store.
New features:
WordPress for iOS now has Stats feature just like its Android counterpart.
In addition to that, WordPress 2.8 for iOS could be the last version that supports iOS 3.x.
Lodsys explains why it’s not after Apple but only the developers for In-App Purchasing. Apple is licensed to use their patent, as a matter of fact both Google and Microsoft are also licensed.
Lodys sets the licensing fees:
Lodsys is seeking 0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent, plus applicable past usage. So on an application that sells US$1m worth of sales in a year, the licensee would have an economic exposure of $5,750 per year.
Lodsys also mentions that it has been getting a lot of hate mails including some death threats.
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so Apple, Google and Microsoft can cross the bridge, but not people who are riding with them?
This is what the iPad Auto-Correction thinks of Lodsys:
On Friday May 13th, 2011 some iOS App Developers revealed that they are being sued by Lodsys for In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links. This lawsuit baffles many developers since Developers are using API in iOS SDK provided by Apple for In-App Purchasing. Lodsys so far is suing the Developers, but not Apple.
Adam C. Engst provided a great analysis on the matter.
It’s entirely unclear why Lodsys has chosen this approach — their lawyers have undoubtedly read the iOS Developer Program License Agreement and know that the iOS developers can’t settle. And they’ve chosen such small targets that there’s no way they could even cover their legal fees with what they could squeeze out. The only strategy that makes sense is that by targeting small developers, they put additional pressure on Apple to settle quickly.
Apple should respond to this lawsuit even though it is not yet directed at them.
In the meantime, this is what the iPad think about Lodsys:
That makes a lot of sense.
It’s Tuesday and there are a lot of news coming.
Microsoft confirms Skype acquisition.
Some said that Microsoft were “tricked” into overpaying the acquisition. Om Malik brings up a few good points.
Google I/O 2011
Exciting event for Google Developers and Fans.
(Ed. – The message is: “People in the glasshouse shouldn’t throw the rocks.”)
Coverage by This is ny next.
Senate Hearing on Mobile Privacy
Apple and Google on hot seats regarding location data and privacy.
A Senior VP and a lobbyist testified. Guess which companies they are representing, respectively.
Coverage by This is my next.
Apple answers questions regarding iPhone Location Data through its Press Release page. To summarize Apple’s answers:
Apple also mentions:
Software Update
Sometime in the next few weeks Apple will release a free iOS software update that:
- reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone,
- ceases backing up this cache, and
- deletes this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
“Next Major iOS Software Release” could mean iOS 5.
April 26th, 2011 marks the day Flock browser was discontinued. The Flock team joined Zynga in January 2011 and stopped development on the product that they built. For 3 of you still wanting to use Flock should read the F.A.Q. while it’s still available.
Amber McArthur and Leo Laporte interviewed Chris Messina of Flock back in December 2005.
