With one document to iOS developers, Apple has both confirmed the method for stealing in-app iOS purchases and given developers some ways to combat it. The issue is basically that an attacker can essentially pretend to be Apple's own App Store server and therefore allow a user to make in-app...
"iOS 6 will address this vulnerability." Apple Statement
Acrylic Software, known for personal database app Wallet and news reader Pulp, is the latest company to become part of Facebook. In a post today, Dustin MacDonald of Acrylic said that the entire team would be moving to San Francisco "in the coming...
Google has officially announced the rollout of Android 4.1 for Nexus S handsets on T-Mobile, H3G, O2, Rogers, and Vodafone in "most countries." The company began quietly pushing the update out to some Nexus S owners earlier today, and Google's Plus page stands as official confirmation. You'll need to be running the stock IMM76MD ROM in order to update to JRO03E, which includes the speedy P...
While I congratulate the Sparrow team on moving on to bigger and better projects at Google, one thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth: the fact that the Sparrow team is no longer free to build products for itself. When I last spoke at length with Sparrow founder Dom Leca, he told me about how he left a corporate app-developing world to build something he wanted to use. "To build a better mail," he'd say. Each day Leca and friend / colleague Dinh Viet Hoa set out to build an email app they'd want to use.
It's my personal belief that the best apps, or even the best products, come from people who build things for themselves. Steve Jobs, a role model of Leca's, always believed that if you build a great product, the buyers will come in droves. And they did. Sparrow has made hundreds of thousands of dollars because the team built something...
Will Sparrow take flight at Google?
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Sparrow's Mac OS X and iOS apps were among the most-loved email clients on either platform, providing a much better way to use Gmail. On July 20th, Google announced it had acquired the company and hired its team to help develop Gmail. Sparrow also announced that support for its own apps would be...
Today, Sparrow's Dom Leca announced that his third party email client company had been purchased by Google, and we just talked to sources familiar with the situation. The talks have been ongoing for a while; Sparrow was well known, and our sources...
IKEA's ink-and-paper catalog isn't going anywhere, but the company is hoping to bring it into the smartphone era with augmented reality features. Creativity reports that the 2013 catalog will come with a smartphone icon that (as far as we can tell) will work with specialized...
