Tag: in-app

  • Track everything in an instant with INSTANT

    Track everything in an instant with INSTANT

    Gone are the days of having multiple apps hogging the memory and processing power of your android phone, so too are the days of having more devices connected to your body than Neo from The Matrix.. Now you can track everything with Instant 2.0, and not just fitness related activities. The app can also track […]

  • Google Pays Out Following App Lawsuit

    Google Pays Out Following App Lawsuit

    The in app purchases problem in the tech industry has bubbled to the surface again this week, as Google has joined the list of companies having to pay out big money refunds for unauthorized purchases made on their app store. Growing pressure from courts and in the media has seen the problem coming to the […]

  • Micropay Apps To No Longer Be Called Free

    Micropay Apps To No Longer Be Called Free

    Following continual media and public awareness of ‘freemium’ apps with optional microtransactions, Apple has had to bow to public pressure and stop listing these apps as ‘free’ on the app store, replacing the download button that previously said the game or app was free with one that now says ‘get’. Back in the summer the […]

  • Apple App Store Hack Allows In-App Purchases To Be Downloaded For Free

    Apple App Store Hack Allows In-App Purchases To Be Downloaded For Free

    A Russian-made hack for the Apple App Store has become available on the web, providing a way for anyone to grab free in-app purchases, which could prove costly for developers – which is exactly the intention of its enraged creator. Alexey V. Borodin created the illegal method which involves downloading fake certificates and connecting to […]

  • BBM news: RIM officially launches BlackBerry Messenger 6

    BBM news: RIM officially launches BlackBerry Messenger 6

    Latest update to the popular instant messenger adds in-app talks

  • Has Apple Lost In A Mexican Standoff Against The Financial Times?

    Has Apple Lost In A Mexican Standoff Against The Financial Times?

    Has the Financial Times just beaten Apple? A couple of days ago F.T announced plans to launch a HTML5 web app for all tablets in an attempt to dodge the 30% cut demanded by Steve and his greedy chums. The Financial Times called it a “Mexican stand-off” with Apple. “Their terms don’t work for us. […]

  • Google Adds In-App Purchases To Android

    Google Adds In-App Purchases To Android

    Google are taking steps the improve the health of its Android App store by adding the ability to buy content for apps within the app itself. It’s been something developers have been demanding for a while and you should start seeing it from this week.

  • In-app purchases for Android coming next week

    In-app purchases for Android coming next week

    Next week Google will be bringing in-app purchases to Android, the same kind of thing that Apple have already done, and its users are currently enjoying on the iOS platform, so says an article appearing on the developer’s blog. First proposed by Google in January, the in-app purchases will allow the app user to buy […]