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Submission + - Game Maker: 40% of iTunes In-App buys are fraud (threatpost.com)

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chicksdaddy

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @01:41PM

chicksdaddy writes: "Hong Kong based Lakoo, maker of the Empire Online, says that 4 in 10 in-application purchases by users of the iOS version of its MMORPG are fraudulent, and made through compromised iTunes accounts. But Apple has turned a deaf ear to its requests for help to stop the bogus activity."

Comment Speaking of music on mobiles (Score 1) 218

by Taedirk on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:26PM (#35247064) Attached to: Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees

It's funny because Last.fm just started charging mobile users.

Comment Re:Google blocking is a 2-way street (Score 1) 338

by Taedirk on Sunday November 07, 2010 @09:45AM (#34153858) Attached to: How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs (Powerthirst). Top result on youtube when searching for "powerthirst", but doesn't show up when searching via youtube app on my android. Direct link shows "Not available on Mobile" error.

Comment Re:What the hell is Minecraft? (Score 1) 775

by Taedirk on Friday September 10, 2010 @02:49PM (#33537108) Attached to: PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account

Try again. The 60k is from 600k euros, the money Notch generated since he last emptied the PayPal account (once a week every week according to Twitter). Therefore, it really is 60k in two weeks. http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp Statistics 1924 players online, in 785 servers. 599984 registered users, of which 133295 (22.21%) have bought the game. In the last 24 hours, 11833 people registered, and 4485 people bought the game.

Comment Re:Why always sports? (Score 1) 123

by Taedirk on Friday April 30, 2010 @07:03PM (#32051084) Attached to: Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp

If they don't like sports, it obviously means they're gay. Or they're going to shoot everyone up. Or both. Haven't you been watching the news?!

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 178

by Taedirk on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @01:05PM (#30906456) Attached to: Nielsen Ratings To Count Online TV Viewing

Part of me wants to ask if iTunes is going to be counted as 3/5ths of a broadcast. The other part of me knows that's very, very wrong.

Comment Fixed that for myself (Score 3, Funny) 418

by Taedirk on Friday January 15, 2010 @12:12PM (#30779746) Attached to: $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project

US Department of Labor

For some reason, I read this as Department of DAY Labor..

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 316

by Taedirk on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:40PM (#30725334) Attached to: CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone

About half as many stories per day.

Comment Don't call it the Windows Bar . . . (Score 1, Redundant) 301

by Taedirk on Saturday July 25, 2009 @11:29PM (#28824019) Attached to: Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store

Call it the Task Bar.

Comment Re:Mozilla calendar? (Score 1) 355

by Taedirk on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @06:48PM (#23737639) Attached to: Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

You mean shadowmushroon and watersnake, their techno music player and wiki software?

I would totally use a techno music player named Shadowshroom.

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