TMO Deals

Ocushield Anti-Blue Light Screen Protector: $29.99

Bryan Chaffin ·

We have a deal on Ocushield, an anti-blue light screen protector. It filters blue light coming from your iPhone (a couple of Android devices are supported, too). It’s made from tempered glass with a scratch-resistant oleophobic coating, and it’s $29.99 through our deal.

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Congressman Wants Apple to Increase Security Over Foreign-Linked Apps

Andrew Orr ·

Rep. Stephen Lynch, chairman of the House subcommittee on national security, sent separate letters to Apple and Google, wanting assurances these companies could warn users about apps with foreign ties.

At a minimum, Apple and Google should take steps to ensure that users are aware of the potential privacy and national security risks of sharing sensitive information with applications that store data in countries adversarial to the United States, or whose developers are subsidiaries of foreign companies.

Apple can only do so much. They probably can’t check the source code of every app to see if it contains Chinese spying code. And what about U.S. spying code?

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App Store Developers Get More Protection Under New EU Regulations

Charlotte Henry ·

The EU passed new rights for developers on Sunday. GamesIndustry.biz explained how it will offer App Store developers greater protection.

The scope of the regulation is limited to platforms that allow developers and publishers to offer their games to players, where the platform facilitates direct transactions between developers and publishers and the players. Console manufacturers’ online stores do not, therefore, identify themselves as marketplaces like Apple’s App Store or Google Play, which clearly fall under the new regulation. Instead, they regard themselves as digital retail stores that enter into direct transactional relations with players, and do not fall under the new regulation as “online intermediation services” that facilitate the initiating of direct transactions between developers/publishers and players.