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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps, Planning “Grand Opening” of iPad App Store

Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
“iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says.
There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]

Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims.
And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]

Apple Devotes Entire Home Page To Jerome York Obituary

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If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it.
What other computer manufacturer would remove its top-selling, hype-inducing, industry-altering new product from the prime spot on its website home page, and replace it with an obituary to an investor?
This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]

Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
The half-hour series called “iCon” is billed by the presser as “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.”
Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]

Peek-a-Boo: Racy iPhone Apps OK’d By Apple Abound on iTunes

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Watch them wiggle, see them jiggle with Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored), an app that somehow managed to circumnavigate Apple censors, who blocked a similar app, iBoob. But whereas iBoob featured cartoon boobs, Apple somehow let the real boobs of iBoobs through. Watch the app in action on YouTube. It’s all in the drop and drag, apparently. $1.99.

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Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. Since 1999, she's been tapping away at zoomata. You can also find her on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter.

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12 comments

    Why would you want to pay for racy apps when you could convert your own personal video collection for the iphone for free.

    Suicide Girls app does the biro ink removal thing from the 70’s.

    Tell me again about how Apple is so far ahead of it’s competition with 50,000 apps and most of them are rubbish like this.

    Apple banned the Nine Inch Nails app for lyrics that contained profanity (however those very songs are able to be purchased on the iTunes store),yet they allow this kind of thing? Just a tad hypocritical there, Apple.

    This is such a non-issue: mobile Safari doesn’t block content, find yourself a good ol’ non-flash porn site and stream/download ’til you hit your bandwidth limit.

    Geez, geeks, show some initiative! Why would you install this stuff as a paid application when you can find whatever mild, medium, or disgusting content you want, free, on your built in browser? Porn is the ultimate renewable internet resource.

    [...] our story on peek-a-boo apps that despite sexy content were OK’d by Apple despite the smut-free ban, a reader wrote in to say [...]

    How can “GOOD IN BED” be a app thats approved…. Its also kinda sexual even though there are no bikini models…. If apps like iSutra gets rejected these apps sud also not be allowed in store….

    http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313821394&mt=8

    There’s a new app called “Peekaboo” in the App Store that features 3D models of nearly naked women.

    As a developer I find Apple’s stance very frustrating. We have had a celebrity bikini based app in review for over a month now, after it was first rejected for being too sexual due to an image of Abi Titmus naked – yet posing in a way so nothing “naughty” was visible. Other apps out there are fair more sexually explicit, our images are fairly tame, yet Apple seem to have dropped us into the bottomless pit or “App under review”.
    They did send us an email saying that it was taking longer than normal to review, but 3 weeks later and we have still heard nothing..

    If they let bikini girls based apps in, then they should let them all in, either that or none at all. They system at the minute seems very unfair and confusing.

    [...] lot of articles (like Cult of Mac, Wired.com …)have been written about the problem of the age rating within the app store. Most [...]

    apple is a fag for not letting there be porn u can go on safarri anyway so wtf

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