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Apple Is Denying In-App Donations To Developers

Apple has never been known as an easy company to get along with. While it has always made some of the greatest products on the market, it is also notorious for being overly censored and stubborn with its decisions.

We recently reported that an unofficial WikiLeaks app had been pulled from the App Store. It was thought that Apple could have justified the pull based on their charitable donation policy. As it turns out, that policy has been plaguing app developers for some time, and they're starting to get frustrated.

The Huffington Post recently published an article on Apple's denial of in-app donations for charity. Many developers run non-profit, or support non-profit, organizations and would like to allow their app's users to make philanthropic donations in the same way that other in-app purchases function. For some reason, Apple has been denying these requests from developers, and it's making Apple look like the bad guy...

Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

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I'm getting a white iPhone 4 for Christmas 5 awesome iPhone games Apple quietly removed the stealthy jailbreak detection in iOS 4.2.1 140,000 emails from Steve Jobs released on WikiLeaks Debunking the insane Verizon iPhone LTE rumors Jailbreak app converts icons to Retina Display icons mSpot enables iTunes cloud syncing The story behind Cydia: why it's called Cydia New car stereo fully integrates your iPhone PkgBackup, the best way to backup your jailbreak apps MuscleNerd confirms untethered jailbreak to be released before Christmas

Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

This is a summary of the most popular articles that were published on iDB this past week.

Add landscape mode to your home screen with SBRotator Enhance your typing efficiency with 5-row keyboard Bring gravity to your iPhone screen with GraviBoard Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 available soon Dev Team working on baseband downgrade for easier iPhone unlock iOSFlashVideo is another workaround to get Flash on your iPhone The fastest way to view Cydia updates StayOpened keeps the App Store app opened while downloading in the background Quick tip: how to email a photo Every question you had about Angry Birds not answered

Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

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Apple now selling the full Beatles catalog on iTunes 5 awesome iPhone utility apps 3D comes to the iPhone Official Google Voice application in the App Store Twitter app for iPhone updated with push notifications Steve Jobs didn't email me for my birthday Get a physical keyboard for your iPhone This kid made $130,000 selling authentic white iPhone 4 parts Apple releases iOS 4.2.1 GM Wifi Sync iTunes compatibility and 2.0 hype

How This Kid Made Over $130,000 Selling Authentic White iPhone Parts

You gotta love America, the land of freedom and entrepreneurship, a land where anyone can be an overnight success and make the headlines. But America is also the land of lawsuits. 17 year-old Fei Lam is just about to know both the fun side and the not-so-fun side of being an entrepreneur in the US.

This kid form Queens, NY has been selling white iPhone 4 conversion kits using parts he acquired directly from a source close to the Foxconn's iPhone factory in China. Selling from $135 to $279, these kits have made Fei Lam over $130,000 in the last few weeks. Everything was doing fine until he received an email from a private investigator...

Angry Birds Sequel in the Works?

If you haven't noticed, we here at iDB are obsessed with Angry Birds. So of course we're thrilled to hear there's an Angry Birds sequel in the works!

But as any good salesman (and Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka) will say: that's not all! Pocket-Lint reports that Vesterbacka was in attendance at the Virtual Goods Summit in London and spilled some details about what to expect. Here's the rundown:

Researchers Use iPhone to Measure Happiness

Track Your Happiness.org is a recent project from a group of Harvard scientific researchers. The project's goal is to, "investigate what makes life worth living." Specifically, to see how the wandering mind and happiness correlate.

But how could this type of a survey really be effective when you would need the ability to invade the mind of your participant throughout the day for effective results?

Researchers were able to do something that traditional physiology methods have not allowed in the past: to intrude on the lives of their participants in a non-threatening and targeted way. What better means to prick the wandering mind than through what is the usual cause of a wandering mind- the smartphone.

This specific way of data collecting was made possible through (you guessed it) the iPhone...

Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

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FaceTime comes to the iPhone 3GS New jailbreak tweak brings panoramic wallpaper scrolling to the iPhone Damn you iPhone auto correct AppSwitch, the ultimate system utility for your iPhone What iOS 4.2 features are you looking forward to the most? Saurik speaks at TED How to install Android on iPhone, no computer needed Update about the iOS 4.2 jailbreak and unlock How to forward your iPhone voicemails to Google Voice iOS 4.2 to be released on the 24th?

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SkyFire Flash converter available in the App Store Your iPhone wants you to sleep in! This is where the people who make your iPhones live More info about the iOS 4.2 jailbreak 5 controversial features we could see on the iPhone 5 RedSn0w 0.9.6b2 jailbreak for all devices download iOS 4.2 GM can be jailbroken with RedSn0w A beautiful marriage proposal filmed on the iPhone iPhone unlock for iOS 4.1 and 4.2 coming soon? Your iPhone can say a lot about you

Target is Going to Sell iPhones

"At Target we continue to offer our guests the best in electronics, so we’re happy to add iPhone to our Target Mobile offerings." The senior VP of Target merchandising has confirmed that Target is slated to be the next retail chain to sell iPhones.

The iPhone 4 and 3GS will be available at all Target locations for walk-in purchases on November 7. Target has now joined the ranks of Walmart and Best Buy as a major retail partner for iPhone. Target has also promised to have in-store activations for AT&T...