
“Begley hunkered down and made his first iPhone app, Drones+, which tracks drone strikes by aggregating information from a Bureau of Investigative Journalism database. Reports of drone strikes prompt iPhone notifications that arrive with pop-up text messages; Google maps showing locations, and the option of more detail. A third rejection came this week, according to Begley, with Apple informing him that Drones+ would not be allowed in the App Store because many people were likely to find the content objectionable.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/30/apple-shoots-down-drone-strike-tracking-iphone-app/
Related posts:
High frequency trader fined more than $3m by regulators
Retired EPA attorney leads the opposition to 'smart meters' in Maryland
Nine current and former Philadelphia Traffic Court judges charged in probe
Snapchat's young users snap up stock — and want more IPOs
U.S. has lost sight of $70 billion in cash sent to Afghanistan [2011]
U.S. gold bars and coins find new home overseas on Asian demand
Japanese Troops Storm California Beach as Marine Power Eyed
Secret NSA cybersecurity program to protect power grid confirmed
Haircuts for a digital dollar? Bitcoin's small business use
Man sues two officers for $100 million after he was wrongfully jailed
Health care law may mean less hiring in 2013
FoxConn will pay Microsoft royalties to produce Android, Chrome phones and televisions
For Virtual Prospectors, Life in the Bitcoin Mines Gets Real
French Jews to sue Twitter over anti-Semitic tweets following German neo-Nazi ban
Cyber security battle looms after Obama issues executive order