Applereleased a Q&Ato the press early Wednesday morning to address thequestionsthat have been raised about the iPhonegatheringlocation data. They have directly answered most of the hot questions about the iPhone’s gathering of location information and the privacy concerns that are related to this data being public. First, Apple acknowledges that the iPhone gathers location data but that this data is not the precise location of your phone. Instead, it’s the location of the cell towers and WiFi hotspots around you....

According toBrandRepublic, the Financial Times iPad app is about to surpass 500,000 downloads in 8 months, with its iPhone app having generated at least 600,000 downloads to date. The FT’s iPad applaunched in May 2010, registering 486,000 overall downloads by the end of January. The app allows iPad subscribers to download the daily edition to their iPad for offline reading, access content across all sections of FT.com and view the FT’s award-winning high quality video content, all of which are available for free for the first two months....

The Financial Times (FT)launcheda newweb appon June 7th 2011, and two weeks later it’s closing in on an impressive 200,000 downloads,reportsMedia Week. The FT had expressed concerns about the lack of data Apple made available of user activity from the App Store, through the iOS apps distributed from the App Store. And it was this concern that formed the basis of the new web app. The FTsayson its website: “We have launched a new, faster, more complete app for the iPad and iPhone which is available via your browser rather than from an app store....

The domain name market is a messy business – if you want a really good domain name, these days you’ll probably have to be prepared to shell out a small (or maybe even large) fortune. NameLayer is a new service launching that aims to make getting a good quality name easier and cheaper than it has been for some time. With the ethos “Brandable domain names from a curated portfolio,”NameLayerprices domains at 25% of their market value....

iCoolHuntis a social game that has been available for theiPhonefor some time. Based around the idea of searching for, and sharing, “cool stuff” that you spot as you make your way through life, it’s now launched on the Web, allowing anyone to join in this fun and beautifully presented service. You get started with iCoolHunt by finding something you like the look of online, uploading it, tagging it with a location and description and then publishing....