This week’s free App of the Week is the multiplayer iMessage chess game Checkmate!. Normally it’s $0.99, but you can get it free from iTunes until Thursday, August 10th. This app is unlike most of the recent iTunes App of the week. It only works in …
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When WhatsApp was young: the early years
This comes only two months after Apple launches push notifications, which allows developers to ping users when they aren’t using an app. Koum updates WhatsApp so that users will be pinged any time someone in their network changes their status. “WhatsApp is …
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iPhone 8 leaks don’t have all the answers, as the display remains a mystery
It’ll extend almost across the entire surface of the front side of the phone, save for a notch at the top where the cameras … impact on all iOS apps, regardless of whether they’re default iPhone apps made by Apple or App Store apps from third …
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8 paid iPhone apps that are on sale for free today
As you sit there behind your desk doing everything you can to combat distraction on this slow Friday, we’re here to throw a wrench in the works with a new selection of paid apps gone free. Spend your lunch break downloading some free apps while they’re …
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iPhone ‘Find My Friends’ app saves man after he gets stuck on a mountain
There’s an iPhone app that many Apple users have never fired up, but others refer to obsessively. It’s called Find My Friends and it means you can see where your friends are. If that sounds too Big Brother, don’t worry, your friends must opt in on …
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Tech Matters: What’s up with WhatsApp?
You’ll instantly see your account on the screen, but you will have to download the computer app for either Mac or Windows. (You must be running Windows 8 or later.) Double-click the WhatsApp.dmg and install it. Now your devices are connected and you use …
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Apple is pulling VPNs from the Chinese App Store. Here’s what that means.
China’s restrictive Internet policies are known for blocking Web users who want to reach Google, Facebook or other banned apps. But now some of those policies are affecting Apple, one of the few remaining U.S. tech giants with a presence in the country …
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19 Best iPhone Apps for Marketing Professionals to Create Epic Content
The rapid evolution of smartphones has enabled marketers to not just consume content, but to create it anytime, anywhere. Mobile apps have made the process of content creation easier by turning our smartphones into all-in-one production studios, allowing …
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Apple sales boosted by apps and music
The tablet, written off by many as a dying form factor, is stronger than ever: eight of the 10 best selling tablets in the world are made by Apple. And Apple’s services department – App Store and Apple Music, mostly – had revenues of more than $7.2bn in …
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Apple and Google Demanded to Pull Hundreds of Fraudulent Investment Apps
Following an investigation conducted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Apple and Google have been asked to remove “hundreds” of mobile trading apps from their … signals from the top traders to guarantee the safe trading”.
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Scramble to download VPN apps as they vanished from Apple’s China App Store
As VPN apps started to disappear from China’s iOS App Store over the weekend, users in the country were frantically downloading as many as they could. On Saturday, Apple pulled the rug out from under Chinese iPhone users’ feet, by taking down VPN apps from …
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Apple kowtows to China, pulls some VPN apps from Chinese App Store
The tech giant’s move has sparked criticism from service providers, who say that Virtual Private Networks are crucial for users bypassing the so-called “Great Firewall of China.” Over the weekend, Apple was forced to remove the VPN apps from the local …
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Apple removes foreign VPN apps from Chinese app store
July 29 (UPI) –Virtual-private network, or VPN, applications have been removed from Apple’s Chinese app store. Foreign companies had developed the apps to get around China’s Internet filters. British Virgin Islands-based app developer, ExpressVPN …
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Apple removes VPN apps in China as Beijing doubles down on censorship
VPN service providers received notification from Apple on July 29 that their apps were removed from the China App store … a site that monitors censorship activity in the mainland, showed 167 of the top 1000 domains are blocked in China.
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Apple removes China censorship-dodging apps from store, software makers say
ExpressVPN published a copy of the notice, which said the app included content that was illegal in China. Read: The stock market’s near-term fortunes may ride on Apple’s earnings And see: This 1 number sums up why that Foxconn deal is over-the-top bad …
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Why did Apple pull VPNs from its app store in China?
These are external links and will open in a new window The creators of several Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have criticised Apple’s decision to remove their products from its app store in China. VPNs allow users to hide their IP addresses and access …
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Apple is removing VPN apps that allow users to skirt China’s Great Firewall
Apple is removing software from its app store in China that allows users to skirt the country’s Great Firewall. The operators of two virtual private networks, or VPNs, said Saturday that they had been notified by Apple (AAPL, Tech30) that their products …
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