Tag: BANNED

In a weird and unexplained turn-up for the books, Facebook has curtailed API access for a bunch of iPhone apps. Information is pretty thin at the moment so it's impossible to say with certainty whether Facebook is acting alone, or as the scurrilous hatchet man of an over-zealous Apple -- but one thing's for certain, there seems to be little rhyme or reason for the app bans. Speculation by ...

We told you a while ago about uTP, the new self-throttling torrent transfer protocol that first appeared in version 2.0 of the popular uTorrent app. As Sebastian explained in our previous post, uTP prevents network congestion by limiting its own bandwidth so that your Internet service provider doesn't have to. Ideally, this means nobody is subjected to ISP-level torrent throttling, and everybody ...

Apple's been catching a lot of flack for their new policy banning iPhone apps featuring semi-nude ladies (and the occasional dude) from the app store. When around 5,000 such apps were pulled, developers got in touch with Apple, who confirmed that there's a new "no skin" policy. A couple of days later, we finally have Apple's first public statement regarding Boobiegate, from ...

When Apple pulled a selection of apps featuring scantily clad women and other sexy themes from the app store late last week, it wasn't quite clear whether there was a new policy in place, or if the wanton deletion of apps bare flesh was just the crazy whim of some employee. Well, a couple of days and a whopping 5,000(!!!) removed apps later, we have an answer. When I say "we," I don't mean ...