Articles by Tony Perkins
Last July, a group of Chinese authors petitioned Apple to stop distributing their books through multiple apps in the App Store. The group, called the Writers Rights Alliance, is now suing Apple for US$1.88 million for allegedly hosting pirated books. The nine writers in …
SoundHound is a music search and discovery tool for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The app has 50 million worldwide users and boasts of over four million music searches per day. The company recently released its Top Ten Identified songs and at the top of the charts was Pumped Up…
Egg Punch Pixel Juice Genre: Games Release Date: December 16, 2011 Ack! Your feathers have been stolen by rascally rabbits! Put on your trusty old egg shell and roll out in pursuit of your feathers! Roll your way through a lush, wonderfully crafted…
Want a free iPhone 4S? If you’re a customer of China Unicom, you’re in luck — the company announced today (one week from the first day of iPhone 4S availability in China and 21 other countries ) that they’ll give…
I don’t use the phone book. In fact, I’m not even sure where my copy of the Yellow Pages is placed. It’s been gone for months, and the only time I miss it is when I need to find…
Amazon has trailblazed; Apple has followed. Apple’s iBooks program currently allows authors to self-publish ebooks. Authors create their own business built around iTunes Connect, just as they do for self-published apps. So where does Apple have room to improve? What follows is …
Yeahhh, as if we know! Well, actually Doc Rock and I probably have as good a track record at predicting what is going to come out of Cupertino as some…
According to a post this morning on Ars Technica, Apple is taking legal measures to make it more difficult for pirated copies of App Store apps to make their way to the hands of iOS device owners. The company is sending takedown notices to Apptrackr , …
