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iTunes users should strengthen iTunes passwords following second hack

"It's been a second bad weekend for Apple, following another alleged app-driven hack of its iTunes store. iTunes users should now change the password on their iTunes account as well as switching to a prepaid debit card for the service.

Over the weekend, reports have been coming in that a second developer has been using a similar approach to the Vietnamese group, which appears to have ramped a range of apps with similar names to the top of a section on the App store, said Barmak Meftah, Fortify's chief products officer.

"Over the 4th of July weekend, a Vietnamese group used the same strategy to ramp its apps to the top of the book charts on the App Store. This time around it seems it's the travel section that's been hit," he said.

"The clever aspect of this hacking strategy is that iTunes members will see an app at the top of the charts and download it, if only to see what all the fuss is about, and then open themselves up to a obfuscated malware infection or, more likely, see their iTunes account details being lifted and misused," he added."

iTunes users should strengthen iTunes passwords following second hack

iTunes accounts plundered, Apple's App store needs better control mechanisms

"iTunes accounts have been compromised by money-loving criminals. It all started on Sunday, when The Next Web noticed that the list of the top 50 best selling application in the "Books" category contained 40 applications from the same application developer - one Thuat Nguyen."

iTunes accounts plundered, Apple's App store needs better control mechanisms

Today's Apple's iPhone OS 4 event!

This is the brief version of todays Apple iPhone OS 4 event:

• As of today Apple has sold over 450,000 iPads!

• As of today Apple 600,000 iBooks have been downloaded.

• As of today Apple 3.5 iPad apps have been downloaded.

• Over 4 Billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple app store.

• There are 185,000 apps in the Apple app store.

• There are 3,500 apps in for the iPad in the app store.

• 50 Million iPhones have been sold.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will be released to the public summer 2010.

• Developers may download the iPhone OS 4 preview today.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will feature 1500 new API's.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer 100 new user features. Such as Create playlists, 5x digital zoom, tap to focus on video, gift apps, geotagging, places in the photo app, change the home screen, wallpaper, bluetooth keyboards support and spell checker."

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer Multitasking done in a way that will not suck your battery dry.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer: Background audio, Voice over IP (Skype), Background location, Push notifications, Local notifications, Task completion, Fast app switching, Folders, Home screen wallpaper, Unified email inbox, Organized by thread email, Open email attachments, Multiple Exchange accounts, Fast email inbox switching, iBooks for iPhone, better data protection, SSL VPN support, Exchange Server 2010 support, Game Center, iAd Mobile Advertising.

• Apple said that the following sites are using the most current web standards (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript): CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Viemo, Time, ESPN, Major League Baseball, Netflix, NPR, National Hockey League, The White House, Virgin America, Sports Illustrated, Flickr, People Magazine, TED, Nike, CBS, Spin, National Geographic and will support your iPad or iPhone.

• iPhone OS version 4 for the iPad will be released in the fall.

Read more and see photos from engadgets coverage of Apples event today.

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Red Laser: The First Accurate iPhone Barcode Scanner

Red Laser, which has just hit the iTunes App Store, is the ultimate iPhone barcode scanner, which works just like one of those red-laser scanners at the checkout (hence the name.)

There already are a few barcode related applications in the app store, but they all have one thing in common - they don't really work. Red Laser actually does work!

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Apple's Delays Could Cost iPhone Developer $600K

"A software company could potentially lose more than half a million dollars because of an iPhone app that Apple has ignored for six months.

Eric Thomas, CEO of FreedomVoice Systems, told staff this week that the company is ceasing indefinitely any work on an iPhone voice app, called Newber, because Apple will neither accept it nor reject it. FreedomVoice has so far invested $600,000 and more than half a year in the app.

"We followed all guidelines set by Apple throughout the development process and have never received comment from Apple as to why the Newber application has still not even been reviewed," Thomas wrote in a letter to FreedomVoice staff, provided to Wired.com. "Steve Jobs hailed the App Store as, 'the best deal going to distribute applications to mobile platforms.' Our experience is that it is the worst deal going."

With more than 25,000 applications available, the iPhone App Store has attracted a horde of developers with dreams of striking it rich with their apps."

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Apple: 300 million iPhone apps downloaded

Apple on Friday said 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded from its App Store since it opened in July. In addition to the 300 million apps download, Apple also confirms that the App Store also passed the 10,000 app mark in the store.

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Apple Threatens iTunes Shutdown

For five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been the Internet's most successful music store. "If the [iTunes music store] was forced to absorb any increase in the ... royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss - which is no alternative at all," Cue wrote. "Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it is in this business to make money, and most likely would not continue to operate [the iTunes music store] if it were no longer possible to do so profitably."But as music publishers have sought a higher share of its proceeds, Apple has threatened to shutter iTunes.

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Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to take the stage at the Moscone Center to unveil the next-generation iPhone at the company's annual Worldwide Developers' Conference. A source at a software company that has been working on a native iPhone application tells us the company is getting ready to launch that application on Monday, which could also imply that Apple's App Store will be up and running that day."

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