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If you haven’t been completely content with the stock Contacts app on your renowned Cupertino handset, and were wishing there was a little more to squeeze out of it — there might just be something in the App Store waiting to meet your needs. Enter Savi People. The 99-cent application essentially brings all your address book connections into one hub, but what separates it from the Contacts you’ve come to know is its integration with most of your preferred social networks — you know, the likes of Twitter, Facebook and, with the latest update, Instagram. Assuming you give Savi People the credentials to get into your accounts, you’ll be tweeting, sending direct messages and posting on people’s walls in no time directly from the app. You can grab Savi People for a little less than a dollar right now, though that could change at any time as it is a “special” price.

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This week the folks at Nielsen have released their quarterly report on smart devices, this one covering Q2 of 2012 and showing Apple to have more than double the market share of its nearest competitor in terms of smartphone manufacturer share by operating system. This chart shows also that Android of course comes in first as far as operating system market share as a whole goes, but that because this category is comprised of several manufacturers, Apple remains in the lead by a long shot because it owns its entire OS share.

The chart you’re seeing from Nielsen shows that Apple’s iPhone line alone has 34% of the market under its belt right now, while its nearest competitor, Samsung, works with 17%. Samsung also has several devices – or more than just a few, certainly not just one, as Apple projects itself as having, and each of the manufacturers next down the list: HTC, Motorola, both of them with Android, and RIM, with BlackBerry OS, are each working with hordes of smartphone models as well.

This chart makes BlackBerry seem surprisingly aloof, considering the news that’s surrounded the ill-fated RIM over the past few months and years. Of course you should take notice that visuals aren’t everything, with Apple’s share being more than three times the size of RIM’s while the actual box they fit into shows them at less than 2x the space. Android, similarly, has a space that’s not even beginning to show how large 51% of the market is – so pay more attention to the numbers than the actual colored boxes, here, folks.

Also be sure to check out our post from last night that explored the rest of the Nielsen report in a bit more detail: Android and iPhone make great gains in Q2, and head to the timeline below to see Nielsen reports from past weeks and months as well.

Apple decimates market by operating system says Nielsen is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The App Store’s in-app purchases security has been breached. A Russian hacker has found a method to fool iPhone and iPad apps so that you can get in-app purchases for free. It’s surprisingly easy to set up, requiring no jailbreaking or hacking magic at all. You just need to follow some steps in your stock iOS device and it will work: More »

It wasn’t long after the introduction of the App Store on iOS before a separate app store for hacked apps appeared. Now it looks like the in-app purchasing system may have been circumvented without requiring a jailbreak. A Russian developer has created two certificates that can be installed on an iOS device that tricks apps into believing in-app purchases have been made, all without contacting Apple’s servers.

In addition, users are required to change the DNS settings of their WiFi connection on iOS to make the hack work. When users go to purchase content, the in-app prompt is replaced with a message asking the users to “like” the website. The app is then fooled into thinking the transaction has gone through, with purchased content then able to be used. The hack gathers a whole host of information too, including the GUID of your iDevice and application version numbers.

Apple has provided the following statement on the situation:

“The security of the App Store is incredibly important to us and the developer community. We take reports of fraudulent activity very seriously and we are investigating.” -Apple Representative

The developer is accepting donations on his website in an effort to spur momentum for the project, as currently it doesn’t work with every app in Apple’s library. While the developer encourages users not to pirate apps or abuse the tool, he reportedly helps those who are running into trouble with in-app purchases that aren’t working with the hack.

[via 9to5Mac]

Russian developer circumvents iOS in-app purchase system [UPDATE: Apple responds] is written by Ben Kersey & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The 2012 London Olympics Games are nearly upon us and the BBC just can’t hold back its excitement any longer. The Queen’s favorite broadcaster has released its Olympics app for both iOS (5.0 and above) and Android (2.2 and newer) devices, apps that for the most part look like wrappers for the company’s mobile Olympics pages. But, that’s not to say they don’t offer some excellent features, like guides to every competition, the ability to save stories to read offline later and, most importantly, up to 24 simultaneous live streams of video — once the Games actually get started in two weeks.

Update: We got a note from the Beeb indicating that there’s an international version as well — because those two dozen streams mentioned above certainly won’t work when you’re outside of the United Kingdom.

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