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• 5 Apps Banned from Apple's App Store in 2011

  By Eric Mack | 15 December, 2011 05:13

  Apple gave the app, Drivers License, the boot this week after concerned politicians claimed it encouraged identity theft. Drivers License joins a short list of apps that Apple gave boot in 2011 because Apple either didn't get the joke, offered too much functionality, or that Apple felt was downright dangerous.

• Apple's Mac App Store Tops 100 Million Downloads

  By Ian Paul | 13 December, 2011 19:00

  Apple's Mac App Store has delivered more than 100 million downloads since launching in early January, the company announced Monday.  The Mac App Store is Apple's online retail outlet for PC applications for Macs running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher. While topping 100 million downloads is a far cry from the one billion downloads the iOS App Store sees every month, it proves the Mac App Store is popular with Mac users.

• Android Market celebrates 10 billion downloads with 10-cent app sale

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 08 December, 2011 01:28

  Guess what? Your favorite Android app may be just 10 cents right now, thanks to the Android Market's 10 billion downloads celebration.

• In pictures: Steve Jobs and Apple - The successes and flops

  By Nick Mediati | 06 October, 2011 11:17

  From the Lisa to the App Store, here are 11 products from Steve Jobs's tenure as Apple's CEO that made an impact - whether they succeeded or not

• REVIEW: BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone stands up

  By Ross Catanzariti | 09 September, 2011 09:36

  RIM's latest BlackBerry Bold 9900 heralds a new era for the famous BlackBerry: it is the first Bold to combine a touchscreen and a physical keyboard in a standard candy bar design. The Bold 9900 has a fantastic industrial design that feels superbly constructed, its keyboard is the best we’ve ever used on a smartphone, and its screen is vivid and bright. However, in the age of the iPhone, Android and even Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the Bold still offers little incentive to switch from rival platforms.

• yARN: Are companies finally ditching the Australian gadget tax?

  By Nick Broughall | 15 August, 2011 16:11

  The “Australia tax” is a concept every Aussie gadget lover is familiar with. As Australians, we are expected to pay more for products than other places in the world like the UK or the US.

• APP OF THE DAY: Groove Coaster

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 04 August, 2011 11:55

  It’s not going to make you more productive, and if you were using it at work your boss would be less than pleased, but Groove Coaster is utterly essential stuff.

• Lion will debut on Wednesday (US time) on the Mac App Store

  By Serenity Caldwell | 20 July, 2011 07:49

  The cat's out of the bag: During Apple's third-quarter financial earnings call on Tuesday, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced that Lion would debut Wednesday on the Mac App Store. The OS update will cost $31.99.

• Symantec: Building on specialisation

  By Patrick Budmar | 29 July, 2011 08:41

  ARN caught up with Symantec Pacific region vice-president and managing director, Craig Scroggie, during Symantec Partner Engage 2011 to talk about the security vendor’s channel strategy, partners specialising and the current security landscape.

• NEWS FOCUS: Mobiles, tablets and app downloads set to soar

  By Hafizah Osman | 19 July, 2011 11:42

  Media tablet shipments in A/ NZ for 2011 are expected to be double those of 2010, according to analyst firm, IDC.

• Amazon's Android app store: Steve Jobs doesn't get it

  By JR Raphael | 18 March, 2011 09:27

  Roll out the welcome wagon, Android fans: It looks like you'll soon have a new place to shop.

• The 8 best iPad apps -- so far

  By Mitch Wagner | 14 April, 2010 04:35

  Apple's iPad has been available for a short time, and you can already find apps to watch streaming movies, manage your Web passwords, use Twitter, do word processing and more.

• Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

  By Brad Reed | 04 December, 2009 06:00

  Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

• Five Fixes for Apple's App Store

  By Tom Kaneshige | 16 October, 2009 05:22

  From the Google voice fiasco to this week's Pepsi pick-up line app, Apple's vaunted app store is showing its weaknesses. CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige suggests five steps Apple should take to make the store better for users and developers.

• Apps Store approvals still make no sense, Spotify or not

  By David Coursey | 09 September, 2009 04:36

  Much is being made of supposed improvements to Apple's App Store, but the approval of a music service called Spotify only raises more questions. And the recent approval of Loopt was a major step backward even Phil Schiller may be unable to fix.

• Top 10 reader iPhone annoyances (and how to fix them)

  By Jared Newman | 07 August, 2009 00:50

  Who knew there were so many iPhone annoyances? Last week we listed ten common failings of the iPhone and discussed how to correct them. Maybe it was naïve to restrict the list to ten entries. Reader feedback suggests that iPhone users have no shortage of annoyances they'd like to see solved.

• Apple anger: Our 5 biggest iPhone beefs

  By JR Raphael | 06 August, 2009 09:17

  Well, Apple's done it again. The company has censored yet another app from its precious App Store, this time because it contained "objectionable" words. The app in question: a dictionary.