Apple Telling Developers to Remove “Free Memory” Function from App Store iPhone Apps?

Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 by Rene Ritchie According to developers Bjango, Apple is now telling developers to remove the “Free Memory” function — the ability to clear data from RAM without force quitting or rebooting — from their iPhone (and iPod touch) applications or those applications will be removed from the App Store. [...]

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Microsoft Releases Bing SDK for iPhone

Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 by Rene Ritchie Bing Community Blog has announced that Microsoft is “sprinkling some Cocoa” on their Bing. (No laughing!): The Bing iPhone and Mac SDK is available for download on CodePlex, open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). The SDK provides: The ability to easily query Bing from [...]

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Convertbot 1.4 for iPhone Rejected by App Store Because Same “Time” Icon Now Confusable for “Recents”

Convertbot [$0.99 - iTunes link] has seen their latest update, version 1.4 for iPhone (and iPod touch), rejected by at least 2 of Apple’s 40+ App Store reviewers because the icon they’re using for “Time” (the same icon they’ve been using since 1.0, mind you) is nigh-identical to Apple’s built in “Recent” icon, and that [...]

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