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We await the outcome of this afternoon court hearing and AT&T’s efforts to do all it can to get an early hearing date to salvage it’s proposed T-Mobile acquisition. However, if the deal falls through, collapses or is outright rejected a Reuters suggest analysts expect that both AT&T and T-Mobile will try and strike a network-sharing arrangement… Read more
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When Apple demoed iOS 5 a couple months ago, they really made it sound incredible. Notifications center, tabbed browsing, WiFi sync… the list goes on and on. Obviously customers were more than a bit eager to download the iOS update. Though, when pressed for a release date, the only thing Jobs&Co. could give us was “in the fall.” Luckily, though, it…
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Although Pokemon is one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises that started on and still lives on Nintendo hardware, a new game is coming to Android and iOS this summer that isn’t backed by Nintendo, but the actual Pokemon Company.
On July 1, the Pokemon Company announced that a ‘Tap’ game will debut this summer, showing only a single Japanese graphic and giving little other information. The app is said to be releasing sometime later this summer and it’s still unclear whether …
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According to the old “people familiar with the matter” story AT&T will have to pay Deutsche Telekom $6 billion in assets, cash and services if a deal isn’t approved by US regulators. The $6 billion would break down into the $3 billion in cash previously thought but an additional $2 billion worth of spectrum and a roaming agreement valued at $1 billion would also be picked up by Deutsche Telekom. The sources asked not to be named as those details were not public.
The cash break-up fee is approximately 7.7% of the total value of the deal and with the inclusion of the assets and services AT&T could stand to lose up to 15.4% of the total value of the deal. The high fee alludes to the high level of confidence that AT&T has it can convince regulars to approve the deal. After yesterday’s showing at the Senate Hearing both AT&T and T-Mobile have their work cut out for them to convince regulators this deal is in the best interest of the industry and consumers.
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Sorry, Microsoft; we harsh on Apple and Google anytime their App Store policies result in questionable decisions, so we can’t just let yours slide.
Here’s the story so far: one-man dev house Smarty Pants Coding submits their Windows Phone 7 app, ImageWind, which automatically pulls random images from Twitter for aimless perusing and time-killing. Smarty Pants’ Roger Peters is unsure if it’ll get greenlit, as the unrestricted image feed can get a bit risque at times, but.. it gets approved! He submits an update.. and it gets approved again! He drops a few hundred bills into the application and its website, now that he knows Microsoft is down with the idea, and submits another update. This time, however, he’s turned away.
As App Review teams made up of multiple people can do from time to time, Microsoft’s WP7 Marketplace gatekeepers had had a change of heart. The response after Rob submitted his last update:
Imagewind – app unpublish request
[..] While the images shown are dynamic, per your app’s disclaimer, a portion of the images’ content is too graphic for the app to be permissible in Marketplace. In order to be permissible, there would need to be a content filter before surfacing images since users are not querying a specific type of image and are rather pushed to them.Given this, we ask that you unpublish your app within one business day until you are able to modify your application to comply with the certification guidelines.[..]
Great! As long as Rob could fix things up within a day or two, he should be fine — right? The problem: he’s just pulling Twitter’s raw image feed, and their is no “clean” feed. If Rob wanted to nix all the potentially-dirty images out of his app’s stream, he’d have to hire an army of moderators to keep the feed clean around the clock. Not exactly an option for an indie developer just tryin’ to release something cool.
As crummy as it seems, Microsoft’s well within their rights here. Rob lucked out by getting his app through the review process twice, knowing that it was in a grey area — it’s just unfortunate that no one at Microsoft caught it before false hopes lead him to invest all that time and money.
[Via NeoWin]
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