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		<title>AT&amp;T&#8217;s Terrible Plan to Bill App Makers for Your Data Use</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/28/atts-plan-to-bill-app-makers-is-terrible-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T thinks it's figured out a new way to make money off the rise of smartphones: Instead of just having consumers pay for mobile data, AT&#38;T plans to allow app makers to cover the cost of data themselves, so it doesn't count against users' plans. Here's why that's a bad idea.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=120742&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which &#8220;have a higher energy than the untrapped ones.&#8221; And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too. How Much Does The Internet Weigh? [YouTube via Buzzfeed]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple: We&#8217;re Not Tracking Anyone, and We Never Will</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/27/apple-were-not-tracking-anyone-and-we-never-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen up, world. Steve has something he wants to say: &#8220;Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t happen very often but Apple does, every once in a while, make a public statement about something that isn&#8217;t directly related to new product announcements. It happened when people made a fuss about iPhone 4 reception troubles. And it happened when Steve Jobs stepped aside for six months to focus on his health. Now it&#8217;s happened again, with a forthright statement about the iPhone tracking furore. It all began with the release of iPhoneTracker, a Mac app that unlocked access to the location database backed up inside iTunes every time you sync your iPhone. The masses were in uproar. &#8220;Apple is tracking us!&#8221; they cried. &#8220;It&#8217;s a conspiracy!&#8221; Um, no, it&#8217;s not. Turns out, it&#8217;s a combination of misunderstanding and some software bugs. Today&#8217;s statement by Apple fixes both. The location database wasn&#8217;t tracking your phone at all, the company says. You wanted location services for all your apps, so the phone has to know where it is. It keeps track of its own location using a mixture of GPS data, and known locations of cellphone towers and Wi-Fi hotspots. That&#8217;s why the maps generated by iPhoneTracker often had blobs hundreds of miles away from where the phone had actually been. They are the phone&#8217;s attempts to get a rough guess of its location. The device is constantly working to find out where it is, so it can use that data for your location-tagged Angry Birds scores. Or something. Forthcoming iOS software updates will do several things: fix the bugs, cease backing up the location database to your Mac, and slim it down on your phone. Further ahead, the next major release of iOS will encrypt the database on the phone. So is this an apology? Sort of. Apple does say, early on: &#8220;Users are confused, partly because the creators of this new technology (including Apple)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79226&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple over Location Tracking</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/26/class-action-suit-filed-against-apple-over-location-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two men in Florida have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the recently-reported hidden database file found on iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads that periodically records users&#8217; location coordinates. The suit claims that &#8220;users of Apple products have &#8230; no way to prevent Apple from collecting this information because even if users disable the iPhone and iPad GPS components, Apple&#8217;s tracking system remains fully functional,&#8221; according to PCMag.com. This data collection technique has apparently been in use since the release of iOS 4 (the current operating system running on the iPhone and iPad), which has been out for about a year. And while the initial report indicated that the data being collected wasn&#8217;t being sent to Apple, subsequent reports claimed that location information was being sent to Apple twice daily unless Location Services were disabled in the settings menu. So the distinction appears to be that as long as you&#8217;ve turned off the Location Services feature, your location information won&#8217;t be sent to Apple. What people are upset about, though, is the fact that the iPhone will continue to collect location information and store it in a file. When an iPhone is synchronized to a computer, that file gets transferred and the location data stored within the file can be viewed by anyone with access to the computer unless the backup is encrypted first. Although the privacy policy for iOS 4 contains a clause stating that Apple will collect anonymous &#8220;diagnostic and usage information&#8221; from users, this lawsuit claims that such information should be conveyed in a &#8220;single sentence disclosure.&#8221; The privacy policy&#8217;s wording deceives users &#8220;into believing that their every move would not be tracked by Apple and then stored for future use in an Apple-designed database,&#8221; according to the lawsuit. More on TIME.com: Hidden iPhone File Records Your Location Coordinates iPhone Geo Data Row Rumbles On Apple Geo Tracking: Now the Government Is Involved Why Apple Collects Location Data from Your iPhone How to Encrypt Your iPhone&#8217;s Location Data (Consolidated.db)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79040&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>How to Encrypt Your iPhone&#8217;s Location Data (Consolidated.db)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/22/how-to-encrypt-your-iphones-location-data-consolidated-db/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you hadn&#8217;t heard, there&#8217;s a little file on your iPhone called &#8220;consolidated.db&#8221; that records your whereabouts every so often. Some people are upset about it and some people are saying it&#8217;s not a big deal. However you perceive it, you can take a simple step to ensure that the location information recorded by your iPhone doesn&#8217;t fall into the wrong hands by encrypting your data when you sync your phone with iTunes. To quote The Humpty Dance, Digital Underground&#8217;s poetic and thought provoking 1990 chart topper,  &#8220;It&#8217;s real easy to do. Check it out.&#8221; Connect Connect your iPhone to your computer using the fashionable white USB cable provided to you by Apple. Then open iTunes, if it hasn&#8217;t already opened automatically. In the left-hand column of iTunes, click on your phone under the &#8220;DEVICES&#8221; section. My phone is named &#8220;Doug&#8221;—YOUR PHONE MAY BE NAMED SOMETHING DIFFERENT—probably your own name. If your name is also Doug, I know how you feel on several different levels. Encrypt In the &#8220;Summary&#8221; window that opens up on the right-hand side of iTunes, click &#8220;Encrypt iPhone backup&#8221; under the &#8220;Options&#8221; heading. Don&#8217;t be alarmed that the above screenshot says &#8220;iPod&#8221; instead of &#8220;iPhone&#8221;—I lied about my phone in the last paragraph. I gave my wife my iPhone (so I can track HER now, muahahahahaaa). This is all a very long story that has nothing to do with anything, so let&#8217;s move on. Set a Password When you click that little checkbox, you&#8217;ll be prompted to enter a password. Choose something that&#8217;s easy for you to remember but hard for other people to guess, like &#8220;@wuPr4q6#&#38;Gaqaqe&#8221; or something similar. You&#8217;re Done That&#8217;s it. So what happens now? Will your phone stop tracking your location? No. But by encrypting your phone when you back it up in iTunes, it&#8217;ll prevent anyone with access to your computer from being able to use the &#8220;consolidated.db&#8221; file to see where you&#8217;ve been. Friends, lovers, bosses and inappropriate combinations of all three will be none the wiser. More on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78428&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Apple Collects Location Data from Your iPhone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/22/the-reason-why-apple-collects-location-data-from-your-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it? (More: How to Encrypt Your iPhone&#8217;s Location Data) Turns out the answer is simpler than you think, and it doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory, the government or David Duchovny. Basically, Apple keeps track of your location data so that it can maintain its own location database. By golly, it also turns out they’ve explained it some time ago&#8211;last summer. Last year, Apple lawyer Bruce Sewell sent a letter to two congressmen explaining and disclosing Apple’s location-data collection techniques and policies. The 13-page letter reports that location data is only tracked and transmitted if a user turns on the Location Services option on in the Settings menu. If the option is turned off, nothing is collected. According to the letter, the data is stored in what we can only assume is “consolidated.db,” randomly assigned an identification number every 24 hours, and sent off every 12 hours to Apple. The data gets stored in a secure database “accessible only by Apple.” Apple then collects information about nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi access points whenever you utilize a service that requests your current location. It sometimes automatically happens with location-based apps that utilize GPS technology. It turns out Apple ditched the location databases it was previously using from Google and SkyHook Wireless, and is in fact using their own. Now for that to happen, what Apple needs is location data. What better way than to pull it from the millions of existing iPhone customers already roaming around the globe? (via WIRED) More on TIME.com: How to Encrypt Your iPhone&#8217;s Location Data (Consolidated.db) Apple Geo Tracking: Now the Government Is Involved Hidden iPhone File Records Your Location Coordinates<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78397&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Geo Data Row Rumbles On</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/21/iphone-geo-data-row-rumbles-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The row about iPhone data logging rumbles on today. One security expert says your iPhone sends your location to Apple &#8220;twice a day&#8221; &#8211; and that you agreed to it (even if you didn&#8217;t realize it at the time). Another says the data file at the center of the row is nothing new, and that Apple never gets its hands on it. As we reported yesterday, there&#8217;s been a bit of a hoo-hah created by the release of iPhoneTracker, a free Mac app that displays the iPhone geo data stored on your computer. The app was announced at the Where 2.0 conference by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden. But in a post on his blog, information forensics expert Alex Levinson says that the data file buried inside iOS is nothing new. He&#8217;s been researching it &#8211; alongside other aspects of iOS security and forensics &#8211; for months. What&#8217;s more, Apple can&#8217;t, and doesn&#8217;t, get its hands on that data: &#8220;Apple is not harvesting this data from your device,&#8221; he states. Levinson should know: he wrote the book on it. Literally. He and Sean Morrissey co-wrote iOS Forensic Analysis, which goes into some detail about the nature of the geo data logged by iPhones. Meanwhile at F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen writes: &#8220;If you run a modern iPhone, it will send your location history to Apple twice a day. This is the default operation of the device.&#8221; When you setup a new iPhone in iTunes, you&#8217;re asked to agree to anonymized collection of &#8220;diagnostic and usage information&#8221; about your iPhone. That vague wording can mean pretty much anything &#8211; including location data. So, is this storm in a teacup? Or serious invasion of privacy? Well, stop for a moment and ask yourself this question: after reading all the articles on this subject yesterday, did you immediately switch off your iPhone and promise yourself never to use it again? No, thought not. Neither did I. (Via F-Secure)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78040&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Visualization Technology: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/18/data-visualization-technology-where-do-your-tax-dollars-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re grumbling your way through a mountain of tax forms at the last minute today (or if you forgot today was tax day—hurry!), you may be wondering where all your hard-earned money is going. Google wondered the same thing, and sought to answer that question with what it calls the Data Viz Challenge. Per a company blog post: &#8220;The challenge was a five-week competition that asked developers to visualize how our federal income tax dollars are spent. We received more than 40 thought-provoking entries that each take a unique approach to making this data more accessible to taxpayers.&#8221; The winning entry is an interactive pie chart-style website fittingly called Where Did My Tax Dollars Go? wherein you enter your income and filing status to see how your taxes get divvied up. According to the site, a single person making $50,000 pays $11,088 in taxes. Of that, $7,263 goes to federal taxes, $3,100 to social security taxes, and $725 to Medicare taxes. The site shows that after social security and Medicare, much of the remaining tax dollars go towards national defense, net interest, income security and health. So there you have it. You can check out the other finalists at DataVizChallenge.org or catch some quick previews in the above video. More on TIME.com: Tax Day: The 10 Riskiest Tax Return Moves Two Minute Video: File Taxes from Your Smartphone or Tablet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=77221&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Data Consumption? 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/08/global-data-consumption-9570000000000000000000-bytes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year. That&#8217;s 9.57 zettabytes. One zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or a million million gigabytes. And if you still can&#8217;t get your head around that kind of number (I know I can&#8217;t), let&#8217;s convert it into average-sized books. In book form, our planet&#8217;s annual data consumption would be a stack of books 5.6 billion miles high &#8211; enough to stretch all the way to Neptune, and back again. Twenty times. Believe it or not, it&#8217;s not all Twitter and Facebook updates, either. According to the researchers at the University of California in San Diego who came up with these numbers, the vast majority of this data is invisible to humans. Most of it is the data computers use while crunching something else. It gets calculated and quickly deleted. Humans &#8211; thank goodness &#8211; only ever get to see a tiny fraction of it. That&#8217;s even more of a relief when you realise that the research is based on numbers gathered in 2008. Data consumption is growing all the time, so right now it&#8217;s probably way beyond Neptune. By 2024, say the team, our planet&#8217;s computers will be getting through enough data every year to build a stack of books as far as the next star, Alpha Centauri, 4.37 light years away. Even it most of it is transient data, it&#8217;d still be good to know how much of it is social network updates. Just how far into space would they stretch on their own?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75611&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epsilon Breach: Here&#8217;s Which Companies&#8217; Email Lists Have Been Exposed</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/04/epsilon-breach-heres-which-companies-email-lists-have-been-exposed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing provider Epsilon recently revealed that &#8220;a subset of Epsilon clients&#8217; customer data&#8221; has been exposed. As &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest permission-based email marketing provider&#8221; with a roster of more than 2,500 big-name clients, the subset of data includes &#8220;email addresses and/or customer names,&#8221; as the original press release reported, which are now out in the wild. An Epsilon spokesperson told Reuters that the company &#8220;can&#8217;t confirm any impacted or non-impacted clients, or provide a list (of companies) at this point in time,&#8221; but here&#8217;s a list of the companies that have reportedly had customer data exposed so far: - 1-800-Flowers - AbeBooks - Ameriprise Financial - Barclays Bank of Delaware - Best Buy - Brookstone - Capital One Financial - Citigroup - The College Board - Disney Destinations - Hilton Honors - Home Shopping Network - JPMorgan Chase - Kroger - L.L. Bean - Marriott Rewards - McKinsey &#38; Company - New York &#38; Company - OfficeTeam/Robert Half - Ritz-Carlton Rewards - Target - TIAA-CREF - TiVo - U.S. Bank - Verizon - Walgreens We&#8217;ll continue to update this list as more companies get added. Additional reporting via: SecurityWeek, Reuters, News 13, Telegraph More on TIME.com: Epsilon System Hacked: Has Your E-Mail Been Stolen?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=74554&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epsilon System Hacked: Has Your E-Mail Been Stolen?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/04/epsilon-system-hacked-has-your-e-mail-been-stolen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what’s being touted as possibly one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history, online marketing firm Epsilon warned some of its customers over the weekend that the personal information of many, many people could be at risk. Follow-up: See a list of which companies&#8217; e-mail lists have been exposed. Last Friday, an outside hacker accessed Epsilon’s customer files. The company sends out some 40 billion e-mails annually and also serves many large U.S. companies. Customers include major banks, retailers, and educational groups. The list includes: J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Capital One, TiVo, College Board and many others. According to Epsilon and its customers, the risk is minimal. It seems that no financial information was exposed, but names and e-mail addresses seem to have been obtained. The College Board, which has 7 million registered students, notified people on its listserv to be suspicious of &#8220;links or attachments from unknown third parties.&#8221; Most of the affected companies have been writing to customers to notify them about the breach. Other customers of Epsilon’s include Verizon, Kraft, Best Buy, Ritz-Carlton and more. Still, e-mail users should be wary of any fishy looking e-mails, links or attachments especially if it requires pertinent personal information. It’s always good practice, and will prevent you from being scammed. It’s unknown as to how many people have been unaffected. Epsilon released a statement saying that, &#8220;While we are cooperating with authorities and doing a thorough investigation, we cannot say anything else. We can&#8217;t confirm any impacted or non-impacted clients, or provide a list (of companies) at this point in time.&#8221; More on TIME.com: Security Firm RSA Suffers Computer Attack, Leaving Corporations Vulnerable Twitter Boosts Security with Permanent HTTPS Support Hackers Scam Microsoft in Xbox 360 Points Swindle<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=74494&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Use Twitter, You&#8217;re Probably One of These Dots</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/29/if-you-use-twitter-youre-probably-one-of-these-dots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a Twitter account, there&#8217;s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart. That&#8217;s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter&#8217;s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with. Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter accounts with numbers of Followers on one axis, and numbers of accounts they&#8217;re Following on the other. The results are fascinating. For one thing, there&#8217;s just too much data to fit it all on a single graph in any meaningful way, so Weir created several graphs, each one &#8220;zooming out&#8221; on the data by a factor of ten. All the graphs show a clear 45 degree line slanting upwards from bottom-left to top-right. This is explained by two things: the automatic &#8220;follow people who follow me&#8221; feature, which encourages mutual following; and Twitter&#8217;s strict limits on how many people you can follow once you reach the basic cut-off of 2000 &#8211; something put in place to reduce spam. There are also weird spikes of people who follow 100, 200 or 300 others &#8211; explained in the post&#8217;s comments as self-imposed limits put in place by many Twitter users who don&#8217;t want to get flooded with too much stuff. As the graphs zoom further out, we get a birds-eye view of the shape of Twitter, and Weir draws some interesting conclusions about the nature of the Twitter network. Read his full post here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=73411&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Wiki History Of The World In 100 Seconds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/24/a-wiki-history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world &#8211; well, of Wikipedia&#8217;s history of the world, at any rate. It turns out that no less than 424,171 Wikipedia articles have geographical co-ordinates and dates associated with them. Cross-reference the two, and you can create a tiny blip of light on a map, one for every notable event in history. Animate these blips, and a video like this is the result. As any historian will tell you, this is of course just one viewpoint. This is how Wikipedia sees world history, and other sources might well produce very different timelines. I love how the blips are concentrated on the Middle East, then Byzantium, then more and more appear in China and India, then Europe, then suddenly &#8211; BLAM! &#8211; America. It&#8217;s only 100 seconds, but it certainly gives the viewer pause for thought, and perspective, of sorts, on today&#8217;s global events.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=72620&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive: What Comes After the Information Age?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/14/sxsw-interactive-what-comes-after-the-information-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new &#8211; new technologies, applications, visions or theories. But one of the most intriguing panels I’ve attended thus far was also one of the least declarative. It was held Saturday afternoon, was dubbed “Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization.” And no, it had nothing to do with traveling through time. Instead, the dramatic question it raised was this: How do we make better sense out of this information age? How do we begin to use modern technology to not just create oceans of data, but to enhance our comprehension of this data? Still with me? Look at this picture here. It&#8217;s a model of wave height from the recent tsunami, expanded to a global scale to give us an added perspective of how the waves dissipated across the planet&#8217;s surface. By graphing it out in this way, we get a better sense of the scope and severity of the event. The data points become more illuminating. Our understanding becomes richer. Similarly, Saturday&#8217;s panel attempted to use the same general philosophy to graph out far more complex things. The challenge: How do we take information – information about the way society functions, lives, changes– and arrange it in such a way that optimizes comprehension. (More at Techland: The 10 Best Camera Apps for Your iPhone) In particular, Irene Ros, a visualization research developer with IBM, looked at the Egyptian revolution and the wide swath of information that was launched onto the web during the chaos. Her query: How do we best make use of this information to construct a richer three-dimensional portrait of the uprising? After all, we have people tweeting and liveblogging the chaos, news reporters on the ground, web videos of the clashes and thousands of photographs chronicling the carnage. This might be one of the most documented uprisings in human history. But if we were to go back and analyze only one of these data sources, are we getting the full story,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70174&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T Implements Data Cap Policy for DSL and U-Verse Customers May 2</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/14/att-implements-data-cap-policy-for-dsl-and-u-verse-customers-may-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data caps on your internet? It was only a matter of time. Starting May 2, AT&#38;T will start putting caps on people who surf the internet just a tad bit too much, according to DSLReports. AT&#38;T DSL users will be capped at 150GB, while AT&#38;T U-verse users will get a slightly higher allowance at 250GB. Users will probably want to be pretty careful about going over as there are penalties.  Customers get to exceed the data cap three times across the life of the account, before they are asked to pay $10 for every 50GB. AT&#38;T will begin sending out notices later this month, starting March 18. Luckily, customers will be alerted about how much more data they have left as they slowly creep up to the limit. (via DSLReports) More on TIME.com: Poor AT&#38;T Reception? You Might Get A Free Signal Booster Some AT&#38;T Users Get a Second Chance at Unlimited 3G Data AT&#38;T Unveiling Public Wi-Fi in SF, NYC<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70206&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some AT&amp;T Users Get a Second Chance at Unlimited 3G Data</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/01/27/some-att-users-get-a-second-chance-at-unlimited-3g-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in early June, AT&#38;T switched from a $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan to two separate data plans: a $15 per month plan with 200MB of data and a $25 per month plan with 2GB of data. At that time, customers paying for unlimited data were grandfathered in to their plans unless they proactively switched to one of the newer options. In light of Verizon&#8217;s $30 unlimited data plan, some AT&#38;T customers have apparently been successful at getting unlimited data added to their accounts. The stipulation seems to be that if you subscribed to AT&#38;T&#8217;s unlimited data plan prior to June—which basically covers everyone with an AT&#38;T smartphone back then since that was the only available data plan—you may be able to call customer service and get your unlimited data plan back if you&#8217;ve since switched to one of the newer plans. You&#8217;ll have to pay $30 per month, of course, but if you&#8217;ve had a dull, remorse-laden stomach ache since early summer that seemed to hit you the moment you tried to save a little moolah by switching to one of the new data packages, you may want to try to sweet talk your way back into your old plan. More on TIME.com: AT&#38;T Ditches Unlimited Data Plan, Tethering On The Way Poll: What&#8217;s Your AT&#38;T Data Usage? Two Minute Video: Verizon vs. AT&#38;T iPhone Service Plans<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=64844&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Minute Video: Testing a Fireproof, Waterproof Hard Drive</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,713379556001_2037632,00.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $250 ioSafe SoloPRO external hard drive promises protection against fire up to 1,550 degrees and water up to 10 feet deep. The internal hard drive is a standard one-terabyte desktop drive and the external enclosure connects via eSATA or USB 3.0. In the event of a catastrophe, the company will either walk you through extracting the hard drive from the casing yourself or have you ship them the drive. In that case, they&#8217;ll attempt to recover the data and, if successful, they&#8217;ll load it all back up on a new drive and send it back to you in a replacement enclosure, good as new. I baked the drive in a 550-degree oven for a good hour and then submerged it underwater for a few more hours. Check out the results in the above video. Want more video reviews? Check them out here. More on Time.com: Two Minute Video: Visions of a 3D Point and Shoot Camera See the ALL-TIME 100 gadgets list Apple&#8217;s Hits and Misses So Far<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=59390&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint &#8216;Firmly Committed to WiMAX&#8217; But Can Add LTE Later</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/05/11/sprint-firmly-committed-to-wimax-but-can-add-lte-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sprint has a pretty decent headstart in the next-generation 4G mobile data race, although the company’s decision to go with the WiMAX standard over the LTE standard, which many people consider to be a better long term option, has drawn some criticism in the past. During Sprint’s earnings call today, CEO Dan Hesse was asked about the company’s decision to embrace WiMAX for its 4G data service over the seemingly-more-popular LTE standard that’s being embraced by Verizon and AT&#38;T here in the US and several carriers in Europe. “It’s a very legitimate question,” responded Hesse. “Why did you choose WiMAX instead of LTE? In a nutshell, if we wanted to be first in 4G, there was one technology available, working now, and there was another one coming.” He continues: “And also because of the nature of our 4G spectrum—and, not to get too technical—but it’s what’s called a TDD kind of spectrum. There’s two versions of LTE. There’s stuff that works on the FDD spectrum, which is the kind that Verizon has and AT&#38;T has, and there’s the TDD spectrum, which is what we had that we contributed into ClearWire. That date for LTE is even later. So we had the option of either being first or last. Being first with WiMAX or last with LTE… We are firmly committed to WiMAX as a 4G technology but if it’s determined it’s in our interests to possibly add LTE at a later date, that can be done. So we don’t feel like we’re kind of in a boxed canyon, if you will, from a technology point of view… LTE will be the larger standard. Even though we have the advantage of being first with WiMAX, our competitors—because there’ll be more LTE equipment out there—will have a better cost position, long term, on LTE because of larger global scale. So we will pay a lot of attention to that as we migrate our technology—or think about that—over the long term… It’s an important strategic issue for the company but right now, WiMAX<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=26344&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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