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While publishers are grumbling about Apple’s new enforcement of in-app purchases for content, parents and one lawmaker are also raising questions about the way Apple handles in-app payments in apps aimed at children. According to the Washington Post, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D – MA) on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to review the way Apple markets its apps because of questions about the ease with which children are buying items in games.

An Adobe complaint is the main cause behind reported federal interest in antitrust charges against Apple, according to Bloomberg sources. Apple recently changed the rules for developers, forbidding the use of third-party tools in the creation of iPhone and iPad apps.

Steve Jobs on Thursday fired back at Adobe, denying that Apple eschewed Flash on the iPad to protect its App Store, and instead accusing Adobe of living in the past and not innovating to keep up with the mobile Web. "Adobe has characterized our ...

Microsoft has released a mobile version of Bing on the App Store that works on the iPhone and iPod touch.

Apple has sent a clear message to any developers who try to game its iTunes App Store.

Apple announced Monday that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since the e-commerce site's launch in July 2008. The company also said that there are now more than 85000 apps available.

Over the past few weeks, Apple has been much-maligned for keeping apps such as Google Voice off the App Store.

It wasn't always obvious that applications would be as important to mobile users as the iphone has helped them become. Or that they would be even more important for keeping competitors at bay. The first statement is a personal admission that I never ...