Yahoo has launched two new innovative applications, Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search and Yahoo! Search for Apple iPhone(R) and iPod touch(R). The new applications have just been launched at the CTIA Wireless 2010. The new apps could provide consumers with fun, entertainment, and enough search experiences that deliver powerful information in a fast, reliable and elegant manner. Yahoo! had launched Yahoo! oneSearch in ...

Apple has quietly added the ability to "gift" an app from the App Store. The new menu item is shown above, and shows up if you drop down the "Buy App" sub-menu. Click "Gift This App" and you'll be presented an screen that has fields for the recipient's name, email, and a personal message. If you like, you can enter multiple email addresses and have multiple gifts sent. Naturall ...

While there's no evidence that points to this developer's rant as the reason his app was pulled, it's undeniable that his game was pulled from the App Store soon after it. Game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store "awful" and "horrible" (and worse) on March 10th at the Game Developer's Conference. This week, Apple kicked his game out of the App Store. His game was "Zits & Giggles." ...

It is unclear why Apple is taking this step, but it is removing screen protection films of any type from its retail and online store. The ban includes not just film, but protective cases that have screen protection built-in as well. The ban will apply to iPods, iPads, and MacBooks as well. It also doesn't matter if the screen is designed to be decorative or protective. It also includes cushions for laptop p ...

How draconian is the App Store approval process? That's been discussed over and over again. How draconian is the iPhone developer agreement, however? Copies of the agreement have been hard to come by for non-developers (for good reason; more on that later), but the EFF managed to get one, and it's eye-opening. The EFF used a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get a copy of the agreement, after spy ...

Maybe they were just mulling it over, but Apple has removed any reference to an "Explicit" option for submission to the App Store. It had been reported on Wednesday, and some hoped it would be a "solution" for the purge of "racy apps" in the App Store. In case you didn't notice, Apple has been removing "racy apps" from the app store, even going so far as to remove a "swimsuit store" app (though they restore ...

Remember that Apple said that their "racy apps" ban included bikinis? They weren't kidding, as reportedly Simply Beach, based in the U.K., has seen its iPhone app removed from the App Store, as of last Friday. It's an unfortunate truism that a store selling swimsuits would probably have bikinis. As Gerrard Dennis, managing director of The Simply Group, which operates Simply Beach and six other online stores ...

As you probably know, Apple is purging apps that are somewhat racy from the App Store, including those, according to a developer, that include women in bikinis. Yet the Sports Illustrated app is still in the App Store, and as I said earlier, I smelled favoritism. Phil Schiller, head of worldwide product marketing at Apple, pretty much confirmed that in statements he made to the New York Times. He said: “The ...

A wedding in an Apple Store? What's next, a funeral? Still, that's what happened on Valentine's Day at Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue location in New York. The officiant was even dressed (sort of) as Steve Jobs, wearing Jobs' signature black turtleneck and jeans. Josh and Ting Li, the happy couple, told EW that this was their real wedding. Josh said. “We got to know each other because Ting was looking to buy ...