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• Apple opens up on iOS app review guidelines, relaxes development restrictions (Ben Patterson)
  Ben Patterson - Apple’s criteria for approving or rejecting a given iPhone or iPad app have long been a perplexing, maddening mystery to developers — but now Apple is abruptly making public its once-secret iOS app review guidelines. Among the highlights: No content that’s "over the line," nothing "cobbled together in a few days," and abov […]
• Successor to T-Mobile’s original Android phone revealed at last (Ben Patterson)
  Ben Patterson - Nearly two years after the arrival of the G1, the very first Android phone, T-Mobile is set to unleash its official successor: the aptly named G2, which packs in the latest version of Android, HD video recording, Flash support, and access to T-Mobile’s speedy HSPA+ data network. When will it arrive, and for how much? Good questions. […]
• Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson)
  Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re tryi […]
• Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)
  Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. […]