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YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Because Apple's Licensing Agreement Is Over
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Slowly but surely, it seems as though Apple’s mobile OS is being stripped of search giant Google’s influence. Apple’s redesigned Maps application — due to make its debut in iOS 6 — no longer makes use of Google’s map data, and that trend continues with another recently spotted change. The...
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone version
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Apple obviously did away with Google Maps in iOS 6, but another of the web giant's biggest properties won't be available as a default option, either. The latest beta version of iOS 6 no longer includes the long-standard YouTube app, and Apple just told us that its license to...
Apple confirms native YouTube app is going bye-bye in iOS 6
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But will you still be able to upload your iPhone's videos directly to YouTube? If you were one of the remaining loyal users of YouTube's dedicated app on iOS, you're in for a disappointment once iOS 6 is released this fall. Apple confirmed it is dropping the default app...
Yes, YouTube is gone from iOS 6. So what?
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Don’t expect to find a YouTube app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch if you update it to iOS 6; the company has pulled the app from the latest beta version of its software. This might be a subtle swipe at Google, which Apple is indirectly fighting through Google’s...
Chrome rises: Google browser grabs 1/3 of the global market (StatCounter)
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Remember when Google’s Chrome browser overtook Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser for a week back in May? And next, for a full calendar month? Well, Chrome is still on top, judging by the latest figures from traffic measurement service provider StatCounter, and it has now even taken...
Why Is Apple's YouTube App Disappearing?
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So we know that Apple won’t include its home-grown YouTube app in the newest version of the iPhone software that comes out this fall. But why? That’s a little murky right now. I haven’t heard back from Google yet. But here’s what Apple PR rep Trudy Muller told my colleague...
Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? It's about money and machismo
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If the reports coming in today are accurate, then Apple will remove the YouTube app from its iOS devices with the iOS 6 software update this fall. Both Macrumors and 9to5Mac are reporting that it is gone from the current beta and Apple then issued a statement to The Verge:...
Another Google service gone for good: Apple confirms YouTube app was removed from iOS 6
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Apple (AAPL) released a new version of its iOS 6 software on Monday, and one of the platform’s core apps was missing: YouTube. Some speculated that the omission was a bug, while others suggested that Apple’s dedicated app for the Google-owned (GOOG) service had been ousted for good. As it...
Apple drops YouTube from iOS 6, says Google working on its own app
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It’s not just Google Maps that’ll be missing from iOS 6: Apple confirmed today that its YouTube app will also be dropped in the new operating system, but it will eventually be replaced by a new YouTube app from Google. Early testers of iOS 6 noticed that the YouTube app...
Google Chrome Now Has A Third Of The Browser Market Worldwide (GOOG)
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Google Chrome lead in the browser market continues to grow. Chrome accounted for 33.8% of the global browser market in July, an increase of more than ten percentage points from the year before, according to the latest data from StatCounter. Internet Explorer, the second most popular browser, had 32% of...
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
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Microsoft and Apple should hate one another right now. I mean, really hate each other. After decades of domination, Microsoft has watched their rival move from death’s door to become the most valuable company in the world — over $200 billion more valuable than Microsoft itself. And it was Microsoft...
Apple’s Safari browser vulnerable to address bar spoofing exploit in iOS 5.1
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Given their popularity, Apple’s iOS devices are constantly being probed for vulnerabilities, whether it be within the filesystem, kernel or their applications. Today, a new vulnerability has been brought to our attention that focuses on how the Safari browser on iOS 5.1 renders website addresses, which can be used to...
YouSnub: Apple's Next iOS Will Be Google-Free
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Not only has Apple created its own version of maps to replace the Google Maps app in iOS 6, but it's nixed the native YouTube app--a feature that has been included in iOS since its beginning. Apple had this to say about the omission: "Our license to include the YouTube...
Telenav 'Scout for Apps' offers free, HTML5-based voice navigation to developers
www.theverge.com
Telenav may have an increasingly difficult time justifying its existence as a turn-by-turn smartphone navigation software provider in the age of Google Maps and Nokia Maps, but it's not going down without a fight. Instead, the company is trying a new tack: offering those same turn-by-turn and voice-guided navigation...
Google could soon face big fines over iOS Safari privacy controversy in FTC investigation
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Back in February the story broke that Google and other advertising companies had been bypassing iOS Safari’s privacy settings and continuing to track users without their consent. Google quickly disabled its code responsible for the tracking following a story from The Wall Street Journal, and Apple claimed it was “working to...
30/30 app brings pay-what-you-like pricing to iPhone
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Binary Hammer's time manager app uses in-app payments for users to pay what they think it's worth.Radiohead did it for music with their In Rainbows album. The Humble Indie Bundle did it for games. Sci-fi author Wil Wheaton did it for short stories. And now US developer Binary Hammer is...
Chrome browser finally comes to Android
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Google’s Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system went public in the same year but they haven’t converged until now. Google is finally introducing Chrome for Android, a beta which is limited to Android 4.0 devices. The fact that Chrome will be limited to just about 1 percent of Android...
FTC set to hand Google record $22.5m fine over Safari privacy breach
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Google is reportedly set to pay a $22.5 million fine in relation to the scandal that broke out when the company was found to have overridden Safari’s privacy settings, with the potential to track Internet browsing sessions. The Wall Street Journal cites company officials “briefed on the settlement terms” who have revealed that...
Dolphin Browser iPhone app updated with “Sonar” voice control functionality
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Popular third-party Android browser Dolphin made its way to the App Store in August of last year bringing highly customizable gestures, built-in translations, and a dock-style sidebar for quick access to tabs, bookmarks, and speed dial. Today developers MoboTap Inc. pushed out an update to the iPhone app that,...
Google fires back at Microsoft on tracking: Internet Explorer is “widely non-operational”
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The war of words between Microsoft and Google has just been a raised a notch after Google released a statement in which it criticises the the Redmond-based firm, saying that settings for its Internet Explorer Web browser are “widely non-operational”. The comments come after Microsoft jumped into the brouhaha surrounding...
War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties
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iOS 6 beta 4 has removed the YouTube application that existed on iOS since the first version in 2007. We’re not entirely sure what to make of this, but this could have to do with Apple trying to break away from dependence on Google services. iOS 6 drops Google...
iOS beta 4 strips out YouTube app, changes Maps, Passbook
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In a surprise move, Apple has stripped the native YouTube app out of iOS 6 beta 4, developers note. The app has been a staple of iOS since 2007, when Apple in fact promoted it as one of the original iPhone's selling points. Google has since fallen out of Apple's...
Apple announces Dictation, enhanced sharing and new Safari update coming to Mountain Lion
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Moments ago at WWDC 2012, Apple’s Craig Federighi announced a number of new features coming to its upcoming Mountain Lion, three of them including the porting of Dictation to the desktop, new enchanced sharing and a new super-quick update to its Safari browser. This is a developing story, please...
Thou Shalt Not Lie: FTC set to hit Google for millions over Safari incident
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Another day, another privacy payout. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google will pay $22.5 million to settle claims that it hacked users’ iPhones in order to serve ads to them. The incident stems from a highly publicized incident in February in which a Stanford graduate student discovered that...
Report alleges Google overrode Safari browser security to track Internet usage
thenextweb.com
The ongoing tech privacy debate, which began when Path was exposed for accessing user data without permission, took a new twist after Google, and a number if advertising firms, were revealed to have been overriding privacy settings to track Internet usage on Apple’s Safari browser. According to a report from...
Ebook Maker Inkling Jumps to the Web
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Ebook-maker Inkling, which had previously confined its books to the iPad, is moving to the Web – a move the company has been promising for some time. The move means Inkling’s books should be available on most laptops, though the company says it will work best on Google’s Chrome and...
Looking for the Apple TV? Look In Front Of You
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Nope, still no Apple TV. Apple’s WWDC presentation took nearly two hours, and none of that time was devoted to the product lots of smart people insist is going to show up one day, some day. Still, look a little closer, and you might see the outlines of Apple’s TV...
One year after royally pissing off Apple, Readability’s app is finally approved for iOS
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Remember that scathing letter the Readability team penned to Apple back in February of 2011, when they were first rejected from the App Store? Well it seems like Apple is finally ready to forgive, approving the Readability app, which goes live this morning for iPhone and iPad. The initial conflict...
How the cookie crumbles. Safari user sues Google over privacy violations
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Image via Flickr's Werwin 15 The repercussions keep rolling in from the Wall Street Journal’s expose that detailed how Google was bypassing the default privacy settings on Apple’s Safari browser in order to place tracking cookies that followed users around the web. Matthew Soble, an Illinois resident, has filed suit...
Google's iPhone Tracking
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The web giant and other ad companies bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices and computers—tracking the online habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked....
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