This Week in iPhone News – February 12/2010

Apple To Prohibit Location-Based Ads? A notification from Apple has been received by some developers stating that they are only to use GPS data to provide “benefitial information.” This means that if your application uses the GPS primarily to enable mobile advertising, your application will be denied from the App Store.

Apple Now Lets You Preview iPhone Apps In Your Browser Apple recently updated where links to iPhone apps in their App Store lead to in your browser such that you can now preview the app without having to load iTunes.

Medialets: 14% of iPhone users updated to 3.1.3 it its first week.

Game Devs Migrating Towards iPhone, Away from Wii A new report from Game Developer Research shows that the number of iPhone game developers is continuing to rise while the number of Wii developers is continuing to drop.

AT&T Announces 4G LTE Network Plans With Apple recently announcing AT&T exclusivity with their new iPad, AT&T has recently announced 4G LTE network plans that will undoubtedly help with the increase in traffic that the iPhone brought to their network over the past few years.

iPhone App Store Developers Find Ways to Profile from Pirates Some innovative ways that iPhone developers have been able to handle users who pirate their work.

Google Releases New Google Voice Mobile Web App for iPhone and Palm OS Not content to have their Google Voice iPhone app blocked from the App Store, Google has found a way to implement it within the browser using HTML5.

Foursquare’s New Frontier Foursquare has recently become involved in location-based editorial partnerships with newspapers.

Ray Wenderlich – iPhone Developer and Gamer They guy has a great blog where he regularly posts how-tos with code snippets on innovative iPhone solutions.

Experience Matters: Flash, iPhone, and Beyond Walter Luh, formerly of Adobe, now of ANSCA/Corona, tells some of the inside story of Apple and Adobe’s dance surrounding Flash on the iPhone.

The Best iPhone Development Sites for Developers A great list of iPhone related resources. Disclaimer: Mobile Orchard is listed as one of the sites.

Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.3 There is now a new update to the iPhone OS that improves the accuracy of the battery level indicator among other things.

ANSCA releases Corona 1.1 SDK New version of the popular platform for making Flash-like apps in Lua includes GPS/heading support, additional font support and more.

iPhone Vulnerable to New Remote Attack Flaws in how the iPhone handles digital certificates can lead an attacker to be able to manipulate certain settings on the iPhone.

Sir Patrick Stewart Adores His iPhone While I was lucky enough to see Sir Patrick Stewart at the recent Star Trek convention held here in San Francisco, I did not have the opportunity to ask him how he likes his iPhone. Watch this video to see what he thinks.

NimbleBit Numbers 2009 A really insightful look at a popular iPhone developer’s last year of results for their apps.

Code Review of Doom for the iPhone If you ever wanted to know how they ported Doom to the iPhone, look no further than this excellent analysis of how it was done.

World of Warcraft House App Coming to iPhone Need to check on your World of Warcraft character away from your computer? There’s an iPhone app for that now.

Tribal Games & Mighty Boosh Release The Mighty Decider for iPhone The quirky comedy show “The Mighty Boosh” now have an iPhone app. Not sure how it will be received by non-fans of the show, but if you are, definitely check it out.

Meat Stylus for the iPhone iPhone users in South Korea have an answer for cold weather iPhone situations where it isn’t convenient to take off your gloves.

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