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Gmail push on iPhone? Meet GPush
August 17th, 2009 | 
Author: The arrival of push notification in Apple’s 3.0 iPhone software whipped up excitement, though its real-world application still left users wanting more. On Monday, Tiverias Apps released GPush (iTunes link), a small (0.3MB), ninety nine cent application that fills in a gap with push notification for your Gmail account.
GPush alerts you to incoming Gmail messages with a red icon badge, a chime, and a semi-transparent alert window that reads the sender’s name and the subject line. (You can change these in the Notification settings.) The application interface itself does little, apart from collecting your login information once, and manually reregistering your credentials. All the rest works behind the scenes.
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Did Borders Reveal The “Apple iPAD?”
A survey sent to “friends” of Borders Books and Music (and spotted by an eagle-eyed editor at MacLife) asks if consumers plan on buying an “Apple IPAD (Large Screen Reading Device) this year.”
Hmm… interesting. Could this iPAD be another name for the much-rumored Apple Tablet supposedly to be announced imminently? Is a book reader part of the tablet’s bag of tricks? Could Borders have slipped up and mentioned the name of the un-announced product? Or maybe the company made a mistake, and they meant iPod. The company has previously mis-named the iPod Touch the “Apple iTouch,” after all.
I’m old-school when it comes to books. I like paper. But I realize that many, many people with literary leanings are hopping on the Kindle or Amazon Reader bandwagons. Do you think Apple will deliver a better book-reading experience, if that is what they’re planning to do? Do you read at all?
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Apple tablet will succeed
The Apple tablet, if it arrives, is an extension of a design that already has mass appeal–and does not require a leap of faith to believe it will succeed.
Qualcomm concept tablet based on Snapdragon chip
(Credit: Qualcomm)
The Apple iPhone and iPod are arguably small tablets–and consumers have demonstrated unmistakably that they love these devices. So, a larger, more versatile version of the iPod makes perfect sense.
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Apple censors a dictionary app
This is just getting ridiculous.
John Gruber at Daringfireball.net points to the latest example of an iPhone application being stymied by Apple’s App Store approval process. In this case, it’s a dictionary app called Ninjawords (so called because ninjas are “smart, accurate, and really fast”) that was rejected three times over the course of two months, mostly because “objectionable” words could be looked up and found in the dictionary’s search function, Gruber reported.
It’s a new version of an old story, but one that almost seems like a parody of the byzantine process of getting an app past the guardians of the App store. Here’s how it went down, according to Matchstick software’s Phil Crosby, one of the developers of Ninjawords, as told to John Gruber.
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FTC continues probe of Google-Apple tie-ups
We have been investigating the Google/Apple interlocking directorates issue for some time and commend them for recognizing that sharing directors raises competitive issues, as Google and Apple increasingly compete with each other. We will continue to investigate remaining interlocking directorates between the companies.
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