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Droid does, iPhone doesn’t: The porn app store

Oh, you knew someone was going to do this. So let’s just get it over with. And though some might think of this as a battle between the Droid and the iPhone for the nation’s morality, let’s be open-source about it: someone’s trying to make a lot of money from cell phone porn.

A company with the obtusely childlike name MiKandi has launched a mobile app store that will exclusively cater to adults whose brain food consists of content that reflects their age. Yes, the sort of stuff some prefer to refer to as porn.

MiKandi’s publicity material naturally avoids this term, referring to the more PC phrase “adult only.” However, there is a little kink in its offering. According to Android fanperson site, Phandroid, the MiKandi Market apps only work with Android phones and not with Apple’s more morally minded handsets.
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Xbox LIVE iPhone App Lets You Message on the Go

Can’t get enough Xbox LIVE out of your Xbox 360? Apple iPhone owner? Two bucks to spare? You might care to give 360 Live a look. It’s a smallish 1.6MB app available through Apple’s iPhone store designed to let you reach out and touch your Xbox LIVE account from just about anywhere, as well as several of the service’s tracking and messaging features.

Accordingly, you can manage your Gamertag as you would in front of the actual box, adding, removing, accepting, or rejecting friend requests. You can see who’s online or not, check ‘gamerscores’ (a numeric tally of lifetime game achievements), biographical info, avatars, locations, and so on. It’s possible to keep tabs on friends’ game histories and compare achievements in general or by game, and if you’re into text chatting through LIVE as opposed to standard messaging tools, you can read and send your LIVE messages–even dispatch to multiple recipients at once.
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