Remember when Apple approved that gay cure iPhone app? Well, it seems it’s been listening to all the complaints and pulled it. A petition calling on Apple to remove the Exodus International app clocked up 146,000 signatures.
The app hit the iTunes App Store on February 15 but has now disappeared. Apple hasn’t commented publicly about the issue (and most likely won’t) but it’s good to see that the app has been bounced from the store.
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The smartphone gods are looking down on us this fine Wednesday morning. In today’s US Update we start off with the new king of Android smartphones, the HTC EVO 3D. Then we take a look at the upcoming SlingLoaded HDS-600RS for EchoStar Europe and some strange happenings with the Amazon Appstore and Angry Birds Rio. Ready, set, go.
We’ve seen just about every possible Kinect hack we can think of, heck we’ve even seen it used to control a Playstation 3. Today, Microsoft Research tossed us a bone thanks to an 8-page research publication titled “Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from a Single Depth Image”. Don’t let the title fool you, this document contains tons of interesting facts, science and data behind the algorithms of Kinect.
So you heard the news about the Amazon AppStore for Android launching this morning and grabbed your free copy of Angry Birds Rio? Awesome, unfortunately there’s a catch we didn’t foresee. Reports have come flooding in suggesting uninstalling the Amazon Appstore renders Angry Birds Rio unplayable. It looks like Amazon knows how to stay around for the long haul.
What do you get when you mix the world’s first HD digital video recorder with Freesat+ and Sling Media’s place-shifting technology — the SlingLoaded EchoStar HDS-600RS. Get ready to take your 150 digital Freesat+ channels anywhere you have 3G or WiFi coverage. Even better, there’s access to BBC iPlayer, with other connected TV services including ITV Net Player to follow.
There’s a new sheriff in town Android fans — the HTC Evo 3D. Set to debut in the US on Sprint, glasses-free 3D has suddenly become the new craze amongst Android handsets, but who is the king of glasses-free 3D? Let’s stack the new Evo 3D versus the LG Optimus 3D – read, set, go.
Alert the hounds, a new Android powerhouse is on the prowl. Destined for Sprint in the US, the HTC EVO 3D is shaping up to the Android handset to beat, at least on paper. Equipped with a 4.3-inch qHD 3D “glasses-free” display, 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread, we are looking at the future of Android smartphones.
