Apps must be approved by Apple before they appear in its App Store, and the minimum time frame for Apple to review and approve an app is about 10 days, said videogame designer and theorist Ian Bogost, professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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That means, for instance, even if a user has set his or her birthday, location and "online status" messages to be private to friends, their friends can approve an app that will also obtain that information.

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Unfortunately, apparently due to privacy concerns, a post tonight by the Project Glass team says that it will not approve any app using the tech for release -- at least until it has some privacy protections in place.

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According to a video that Tellabs posted, the iPad app sped up the time to approve urgent and unusual shipments by nearly two-thirds.

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Considering the fact that many workers typically work on a tablet or check corporate email on a smartphone, a corporate app store should also enable those responsible for approving software requests to approve or reject these requests from their mobile devices.

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