A new Apple advert for the iPad has been revealed, “iPad is Iconic“, suggesting that there are over 60,000 iPad-specific apps for the best-selling slate. Several of those apps get a demo in the new video, including the djay virtual turntables, the Wall Street Journal news app and iWork’s Pages.
Video after the cut
There’s also American Airlines’ app for buying tickets, iBooks, Movie Slate and Vanity Fair. The video comes on the heels of Apple announcing 10bn downloads at the weekend, and ahead of what’s expected to be a tablet-centric Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona next month.
iOS 4.3 hasn’t been publicly released yet, but Apple is already approving apps with direct support for the updated version in the App Store. TIPB spotted StreamToMe v3.5 [iTunes link] had been approved, complete with “support for AirPlay video (requires iOS 4.3), seemingly a sign that Apple is looking to push out the new iOS version sooner rather than later.
Whereas normally beta releases for developers are distributed on a two-weekly basis, we’ve seen just one week between beta one and beta two with iOS 4.3. Assuming no significant bugs are spotted, that might mean that the new version could be pushed out before the end of the month.
Google is looking to improve the performance of paid apps in the Android Market with tools like in-app purchases and carrier billing, after Android platform manager Eric Chu told developers this week that the search giant was “not happy” with paid-app growth. According to Forbes, Chu outlined Google’s rough strategy for the Android Market in 2011, which will see carrier billing for software extended from just AT&T in the US.
The AT&T arrangement began in December 2010, and Chu says that Google is working with more carriers worldwide to set up similar systems. As for in-app payments, that’s expected to debut sometime this quarter, and as on iOS will allow free or paid apps to offer further downloads for add-ons and extras.
Meanwhile, Google’s is looking to make discovering apps more successful, with tweaks to the search algorithm and more emphasis on removing titles that contravene the terms of service. There’ll also be a push for HTML5 apps and leveraging “the best social graph”: the user’s own address book since it aggregates contacts from multiple platforms.
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Verizon’s LG VL600 LTE modem received a software update today, but there’s no need to wake your MacBook from its peaceful slumber — there still aren’t any drivers for Apple computers, over a month after we were promised a relatively imminent update. That said, Verizon told PhoneScoop today that the carrier’s LTE dongles will indeed support Apple at some point next month, which is itself only days away. Pantech UML290 owners can bide their time with a workaround, but we LG users will take what we can get, eh?
Notion Ink has been accused of basing its custom email app for the Adam tablet on open-source K-9 Mail without giving credit to the original developers. Coder Jesse Vincent spotted his K-9 Mail code was used as the foundation for Adam’s three-pane email system, but that no mention of his work had been made in the app’s About box.
Update: Notion Ink official comments after the cut
The Notion Ink email app has been skinned to suit the rest of the start-up’s Eden UI and multitasking system; you can see the three-pane system demonstrated in our hands-on from CES 2011. However, if the underlying code is based on K-9′s software, then a mention of Vincent would be at the very least a courtesy. It’s unclear at this stage how this impacts – if at all – the Apache2 license, which states that any derivative works must contain “all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of the Work.”
For his part, Vincent says he would be happy to work together with Notion Ink, as long as they restored the credit in the About box. We’re waiting to hear back from Notion Ink about the issue, and will update when we know more.
Update: Notion Ink CEO Rohan Shravan has given us the following comment:
“Mail’d is indeed based on K9 and is also open source application. The credits and other information are mentioned in the source code which will be released soon.
Jesse and Notion Ink, both have huge synergies and right now in talks for possible area we might end up working together is on Mail’d for Honeycomb! We are very excited on this.
Interestingly Mail’d does not come with any About App box, and does not violate anything as you have suggested in your blog. The update will bring about section in Mail’d as well.”
As we made clear in our original article, it was uncertain whether any part of the Apache 2 license had been affected; this was more a matter of attribution, and we’re pleased to see Vincent’s work on K-9 will be more obviously flagged up in future releases. Vincent himself says “that it looks like the attribution issue in Mail’d was an oversight more than anything else” and is happy with the outcome.
Adobe has pushed out a new version of Photoshop Express for iOS, v1.5, which promises support for the iPhone 4′s Retina Display, multitasking in iOS 4.2, and in-app photo taking using the iPhone and iPod touch’s camera. The free download [iTunes link] comes in iPhone and iPad versions, and supports basic editing – including crop, straighten, rotate and flip – together with effects and filters.
Thanks to the multitasking support it’s now possible to queue uploads to Photoshop.com and Facebook while using the iOS device for something else. Effects include Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, and Soft Black and White, while there are optional Rectangle, Rounded, Oval, Soft Edge, Vignette, Rough Edge, Halftone, and Film Emulsion borders.
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be the very earliest of early-adopters, as some Notion Ink pre-order customers have discovered. Unboxing joy turned to bricked-tablet misery after the recommended software update accidentally locked up the Adam slate altogether; Notion Ink has now pulled the update, and there are reflashing instructions at Notion Ink Fan.
At an early count, it doesn’t seem like more than a handful of users were affected – after all, the first Adam units only started arriving on doorsteps yesterday – but it’s a disappointing first experience for new owners. An updated version of the firmware is apparently in the works, and by all accounts Notion Ink’s customer support has been on the ball in dealing with issues.
First Mozilla detailed its “do not track” system for Firefox, and now Google has announced its own version for Chrome. Keep My Opt-Outs is a Chrome browser extension that takes advantage of ad industry regulations around personalized web adverts; basically, it lets surfers permanently opt out of ad tracking.
“Keep in mind that once you install the Keep My Opt-Outs extension, your experience of online ads may change: You may see the same ads repeatedly on particular websites, or see ads that are less relevant to you.” Google
Now, as with the Firefox system, this relies on the ads being served by one of the 50+ companies which support the opt-out program – there’s no way to blacklist other ad servers, for instance. Google plans to develop versions for other browsers, and the Keep My Opt-Outs code is open-source.
Google is looking to improve the performance of paid apps in the 
First Mozilla detailed its 