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Last weekend has seen a plethora of claims that the most popular smartphone apps have free ranging access to much of the phone user’s data, including but not limited to text messages. The frightening thing is that this access is possible even when the phone is not in use.
Now everyone wants to hang app developers and store operators. Big named services are being used to take advantage of phone users – the likes of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, among others. All of your personal information on your phone is vulnerable to many of these apps.
It has been reported that these vulnerabilities plague both iPhone and Android phones. However, it is unclear whether these breeches in privacy appear due to active access of data by applications developers have designed for this purpose or the security designs are simply so grossly flawed. +Continue Reading
The privacy protection of mobile users is big problem these days, especially since many companies are finding loop holes to exploit and further use personal information for advertising and data collection. One area that needed to be updated was the mobile application privacy monitoring.
The Attorney General of California, Kamal Harris, revealed some surprising information about how mobile apps were taking advantage of users and extracting information. One such practice by mobile apps was to go through the user’s address book information and then use that without notifying or even requesting the permission of the user. After complains, concerns, and allegations began to pile up, something is finally being done. +Continue Reading
For the time being in Shanghai, Apple is allowed to sell iPad tablets, following a ruling regarding naming rights that was suspended. Another company, Proview, claimed to own rights to the name and has appealed to the courts to put a halt to Apple selling its wares in the city, Proview is a Chinese firm.
In response to Apple’s request, the local judicial authorities have postponed acting on the court ruling until after a more significant case has been dealt with later in the month. The claim Apple is making is that it received rights to the name iPad worldwide as far back as 2009. However, Proview has petitioned the court to force the iPad off of Shanghai shelves, not excluding Apple’s own stores. It is only a provisional request, but includes three Apple stores throughout the city. They claim to have registered the name in 2000, long before Apple manufactured their first iPad. Proview has even tried to scare Apple, by threatening to take it to court in the U.S. As well. +Continue Reading
Getting the inside scoop on any Apple products and upcoming news is a big thing for any newspaper or blog. Since the company is notoriously stingy with any details those lucky individuals permitted to have tidbits of information really relish in their fortune. One paper, the ever popular Wall Street Journal, has usually been on good terms with Apple. With continuous reports and updates on Apple on the iEconomy section it came as a shock when things turned sour between Apple and the New York Times, Washington Post reports.
Not too long ago Jessica Vascellaro, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was able to score an exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Executive. The interview shed light on how Apple was going to take the ever popular functionality of the iPhones and integrate it with boxes. “We see that people are in love with a lot of apps and functionality here. Anywhere where that makes sense, we are going to move that over to Mac”, Cook said in the interview. This interview was a huge hit for the New York Times and all was well between Apple and the Wall Street Journal until a new story was published. +Continue Reading
With the iPad 3 release date rumored to be sometime at the beginning of March, many people are craving to know the nitty gritty details, but Apple has been holding out for the most part. A few spec leaks here and there have teased us and kept us searching for more so we decided to compile for those of you who are looking for a compilation of rumors and leaks, we have them all here for you!
We’ve split the rumors into three different categories: specifications, visual, and other. The spec rumors will feature all of the various details about the hardware and software while the visual section will contain iPad 3 design rumors. Lastly, the other section will contain various release date rumors and miscellaneous rumors. +Continue Reading
Although Jobs confessed he wanted to obliterate Android for duplicating Apple’s inventions, Apple is now seeking clarification regarding interpretation of how industry critical patents are managed.
In a letter reported by the Wall Street Journal, to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Apple requested consistency and transparency in the process of applying intellectual property licensing rules.
Samsung and Motorola are Apple’s chief concerns, due to a joint suit focusing on “essential” patents. The letter from Apple has already been posted on the Foss Patents blog. Fraud principles comprise the body of the argument. These pertain to the licensing agreement of key technologies of any commonly acknowledged standard. Examples include MP3 and 3G, the licensing of which is tied to fair, reasonable, and terms that are without discrimination. Any companies that enter into this agreement by signing, cannot exclude anyone from taking advantage of their creation, if they receive a fee that is not excessive. +Continue Reading
Recently many users have been finding out something incredibly shocking: apps were not only accessing user information, but they were uploading ENTIRE address books (phone numbers, contact info, etc) and saving that data on their servers.
The knowledge that your personal contact information is on a server just being “stored” is not only scary but skeptical. Why would they upload it in the first place? Why use all of that server space for no reason? These questions, and many more, led many users to be incredibly angry especially since their trust and privacy was broken.
Hipster CEO, Doug Ludlow, decided to step forward and offer an apology by posting as a guest blogger on techcrunch.com. +Continue Reading
Last weekend has seen a plethora of claims that the most popular smartphone apps have free ranging access to much of the phone user’s data, including but not limited to text messages. The frightening thing is that this access is possible even when the phone is not in use.
