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Google buys app, shuts down iPhone version

Google Inc. has acquired reMail, which develops e-mail search applications for smart phones, and promptly shut it down for Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone.

The move likely marks another skirmish in the escalating war between the two Silicon Valley giants.

Google of Mountain View hasn’t discussed the purchase publicly — and no one’s disclosed the price — but ReMail revealed the purchase and decision to discontinue the iPhone app on its blog.

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Apple Reportedly Bans Overtly Sexual iPhone Apps

Apple reportedly has a new policy for its iPhone app store in which any application with “overtly sexual content” will be removed from the App Store, according to an e-mail obtained by TechCrunch.

But just like countless previous times, this latest tweak to Apple’s app rejection policy will have app developers scratching their heads trying to figure out what’s going on.

Wobbly Policy

One app that has been removed from iTunes, called Wobble iBoobs, lets you take a selected image of a bikini model, add “wobble zones” to the photo, and then make those parts of the image move when you shake your iPhone. This app’s function was apparently a little too hot for Apple, so the app’s developer, Jon Atherton, received a removal notice from Apple, according to TechCrunch.

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