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EFF publishes iPhone developer agreement
If you’ve followed the news of App Store rejections over the past couple years, you may have wondered what exactly is engraved upon the stone tablets that govern the terms of Apple’s App Store and developing for the iPhone. The distress is we haven’t been able to tell you, as the agreement itself contains terms that prohibit publicly discussing it. But on Monday, the Electronic Frontier …

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Foursquare iPhone App Vanishes from App Store Due to “Hiccup”
The iPhone and iPod touch app for the well loved location check-in service Foursquare has temporarily dropped from Apple’s App Store. The Android and BlackBerry versions are still available, but the iPhone is by far the most well loved platform for Foursquare users. This is just a temporary technical setback, though. Foursquare tweeted the following. Earlier this week, the new 1.6 version of the …

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Apple may soon enable paid iPhone app upgrades (Updated)
An unexpected dialog box in iTunes may be a sign that Apple will soon allow developers to offer upgrade pricing for iPhone apps. Developer Fraser Speirs was warned that the “discounted price is only available to customers who own a previous version” of an item when he tried updating all his apps via iTunes. Developers of desktop software typically offer a discount to users who have paid for a …

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Apple sues HTC for iPhone patent infringement
Apple announced on Tuesday that it had filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google, accusing the Taiwan company of infringing on 20 iPhone patents.

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Apple Slaps HTC With Patent Suit Over iPhone
Apple is asking the International Trade Commission and a federal court for relief in a patent dispute with HTC, which it claims is infringing on its intellectual property related to the iPhone’s interface and underlying design and hardware.

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