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  • Apple Eases iOS Dev Clampdown as Android Gains Ground
    Apple on Thursday said it will relax some of the restrictions it places on application developers who create tools for its iOS mobile operating system. The company also announced it's publishing review guidelines for its App Store. The moves follow months of unrest among mobile app developers.

  • iOS Upgrade Slides In, Jailbreakers Bust Out
    As promised last week, Apple delivered the first major upgrade of its mobile operating system, version 4.1 of iOS, and true to form, hackers found a way to jailbreak the software less than 24 hours following its official release. The major fun features of iOS 4.1 were revealed last week when Apple rolled out its latest line of iPods.

  • Nike's New GPS App Leaves the Old Shoe-Chip System in the Dust
    The Nike+iPod system has been a great idea from the get-go: Use this music machine not only to play tunes while you run, but also to measure your time and distance, provide audible updates on your stats and keep track of your progress over a period of weeks, months or years. Even if you're a purist who shuns on-the-run music, you might get something out of Nike+'s other features.

  • AAPL May Yield a Bumper Crop This Fall
    Though it may be some time before AAPL shares again reach the record-setting heights they saw last June, they appear to have made modest gains over the last week. Shares closed Tuesday at US$257.81, down 96 cents for the day but up about $10 since Sept. 1. Meanwhile, Sony has demoed a prototype Google TV at the IFA 2010 consumer electronics show in Berlin.

  • Apple TV Should Get a Nice Reception
    During Apple's media announcement last week, CEO Steve Jobs said two critically important things about Apple TV, the first of which was this: Apple TV owners love their Apple TVs. "They absolutely love them -- and use them a lot," he stressed. I'm one of these Apple TV lovers, and I have been for the last three-plus years.

  • Can Spam-Swamped Ping Survive Without Facebook?
    Facebook has reportedly shut off access to its friend search feature for subscribers to Apple's newly introduced Ping social music service. The social networking apparently giant did this by denying Ping access to its application programming interfaces, AllThingsD reported.

  • Papers Turns iPad Into a Scholarly Study Buddy
    Like it not, we live in the Information Age. As such, we're almost always researching something. Which means we're almost always looking for some place to stash our research where we can find it again. Papers will give you that place on the iPad. Papers is a vertical app targeted at scientific and academic researchers, but it can be valuable to anyone doing any kind of research.

  • Apple Teaches Old iPods New Tricks
    Apple put a charge in its iPod line Wednesday, but it remains a holdout in the "all you can ear" music subscription market. Apple revamped its flagship player, the iPod touch, so it's now essentially an iPhone without the phone. It also brought buttons back to the iPod shuffle and a touchscreen to the iPod nano.

  • In iTunes, All App Reviews Are Not Created Equal
    I like walled gardens. They are safe and, for the most part, keep out the predators. However, when one sneaks over the wall, the results can be ugly, to say the least. With the iTunes App Store, one of the key supposed advantages for end-users is that it is a walled garden, and Apple is providing a safe, secure environment you can trust in.