This past week has been a big wake-up call for the iOS developer community. The need to move away from UDIDs, or an ID scheme that many developers rely on to power advertising and store data about ...

Craig Palli is vice president of Client Services & Business Development at Fiksu (@fiksu), which helps brands boost iOS and Android mobile app ranking and secure large volumes of loyal users. You can ...

Apple is stepping up its efforts to reject any iOS application that accesses a device's UDID, a 40-character code that uniquely identifies each device the company sells. The UDID codes are important ...

“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Eric Johnston is VP Engineering and Chief Architect with Verve Wireless. Last October, when Apple ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. We occasionally dig into our question bag, provide ...

Apple has given developers a way to beta test iPhone applications with up-to 100 iPhones. Some developers have already started using this to their advantage by giving their software out as free public ...

Approximately 12 million iPhone / iPad iOS UDID and personal information leaked from FBI's laptop by hacker group AntiSEC hacking, and about 1 million (strictly 1,000,001 pieces) data which extracted ...

Over the past few weeks, several ad networks have announced "UDID-independent" conversion tracking tools. As Apple's UDID ban has gone into effect, mobile advertising has had to find other ways to ...

A study conducted by mobile ad server MoPub claims that by rejecting apps which use UDID data, Apple is effectively cutting off around 24 percent of developer ad revenue. MoPub notes that because ...

A digital publishing company named BlueToad has come forward to take responsibility for the leak of a million iOS unique device identifiers (UDIDs) that were previously attributed to an alleged FBI ...