WhatsApp is Using IMEI Numbers as Passwords

As you probably already heard in recent news, 1,000,001 Apple UDID’s were leaked. It’s unfortunate that so many apps use UDID’s to identify users since it’s extremely insecure.

This brings me to WhatsApp, a free messaging service, used by millions of people. Their system runs on a modified version of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). There is nothing wrong with using XMPP, but there is a problem in how WhatsApp handle authentication.

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Source: samgranger.com

Partly Cloudy Might Be The Beautiful iOS Weather App You’ve Been Waiting For

Partly Cloudy Might Be The Beautiful iOS Weather App Youve Been Waiting For

Minimalist weather apps must be the current hot trend among developers right now because we’ve seen a slew of pretty new iOS weather apps hit the App Store recently. If the last three weather apps we covered haven’t quite done it for you, maybe Partly Cloudy will.

Partly Cloudy is different from most weather apps in that it displays all the information you would need to know for a single day in one unique and compelling infographic. Modeled on a traditional clock face, Partly Cloudy’s infographic presents weather data in a fun new way that’s also very useful.

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Source: cultofmac.com

Using The iPhone’s Front-Facing Camera, Cardiio Measures Your Heartrate

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It’s still relatively early in mobile health, although there are glucose monitors that can be tacked onto iPhones, heart rate and sleep monitoring apps and of course, plenty of exercise and diet-tracking products.

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Source: TechCrunch

These Tools will Help You Optimize Your App’s Monetization

How can you monetize your app? If you are a technical person, chances are you find this much more difficult than developing the app itself. This is why we decided to work on a list of tools that will help you increase the revenues you make from your app.

To elaborate this selection, we enlisted the help of Israeli entrepreneur and Apptopia ‘s CEO Eliran Sapir , who is in the process of writing a book on the topic. Besides the tools themselves, Sapir insists on the need to test everything you do, from pricing to localization - your main market may not be the US!

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Source: thenextweb.com

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